Last update: August 30, 2023

Elections are being held for Faculty-specific and professional librarian* representatives on the Okanagan and Vancouver Senates of The University of British Columbia for the 2023-2026 triennium. For more information about the Senates, please click here.

*On the Vancouver Senate only.

Faculty-Specific Representatives

Positions for eligible faculty members to serve on the Senates are as follows:

  • Two (2) people representing each of the Faculties on the Okanagan Campus on the Okanagan Senate, elected by and from members of the applicable faculty
  • Two (2) people representing each of the Faculties on the Vancouver Campus on the Vancouver Senate, elected by and from members of the applicable faculty

Eligibility

Eligible faculty members are all persons with primary appointments to either UBC Okanagan or UBC Vancouver, as applicable, with the rank of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Professor of Teaching, Associate Professor of Teaching, Assistant Professor of Teaching, or Lecturer. Clinical, adjunct, emeritus, sessional, partner, and honorary faculty are not eligible. Faculty-specific representatives can be elected from only the Faculty (or, in the case of joint appointments, Faculties) to which they are appointed. 

Note: There are special membership criteria for the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies if standing for the positions in the Faculty.

Nomination Forms

Nominations are closed.

Elections

Polls are closed. 

Results

UBC Okanagan

  • Julian Cheng, Professor, Faculty of Applied Science
  • Peyman Yousefi, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Applied Science
  • Ruth Frost, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Maya Libben, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Nikhita Obeegadoo, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
  • Samuel Roy-Bois, Associate Professor, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
  • Robert Campbell, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
  • Rob Johnson, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
  • Jacqueline Denison, Associate Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Health and Social Development
  • Manuela Reekie, Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Health and Social Development
  • Amir Ardestani-Jaafari, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management
  • Barb Marcolin, Associate Professor, Faculty of Management
  • Karen Hodges, Professor, Faculty of Science
  • Robert Lalonde, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science

UBC Vancouver

  • Agnes d'Entremont, Associate Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Applied Science
  • Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Applied Science
  • Marina Adshade, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Arts
  • C. W. Marshall, Professor, Faculty of Arts
  • Adlai Fisher, Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration
  • Kin Lo, Associate Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration
  • Nancy Ford, Associate Professor, Faculty of Dentistry
  • Chris Overall, Professor, Faculty of Dentistry
  • Shannon Bredin, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
  • Guy Faulkner, Professor, Faculty of Education
  • Julie Cool, Associate Professor, Faculty of Forestry
  • Chunping Dai, Associate Professor, Faculty of Forestry
  • Steven Pelech, Professor, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
  • HsingChi von Bergmann, Professor, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
  • Sue Grayston, Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
  • Anubhav Pratap-Singh, Associate Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
  • Brenna Bhandar, Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
  • Benjamin Goold, Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
  • Bruce Forster, Professor, Faculty of Medicine
  • Wendy Norman, Professor, Faculty of Medicine
  • Fawziah Lalji, Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Ingrid Price, Associate Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Mark MacLachlan, Professor, Faculty of Science
  • Karen Smith, Lecturer, Faculty of Science

Professional Librarian Representative

A position for a professional librarian to serve on the Vancouver Senate is as follows:

  • One (1) person representing librarians on the Vancouver Campus on the Vancouver Senate, elected by and from members of UBC Vancouver's professional librarian staff

Eligibility

Eligible librarians are all persons appointed as a Librarian or an Archivist to libraries at the Vancouver Campus. 

Nomination Form

Nominations are closed.

Elections

An election is not required.  

Results

  • George Tsiakos, Head, Law Library

Submitting a Nomination

Nominations (fourth call) closed at 4 pm on Thursday 18 May 2023.

Instructions for completing and submitting nominations are on the forms themselves. Deadlines and word limits are strictly observed. Forms and statements should be scanned and emailed to UBC Elections at elections.information@ubc.ca.

Questions

Please contact UBC Elections at elections.information@ubc.ca if you have any questions.

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These elections are being carried out in accordance with the Regulations for Elections to the Board of Governors and the Senates.