Jordi Honey-Rosés | Director, Associate Professor
Jordi Honey-Rosés PhD is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and Director of the Water Planning Lab at the School of Community and Regional Planning. His research interests are in environmental planning, water resource management, and impact evaluation. As Director of the Water Planning Lab, Jordi has supervised student research on water […]
Vincent Kuuteryiri Chireh | PhD Student
Vincent Kuuteryiri Chireh Vincent is a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability under the supervision of Dr. Jordi Honey-Roses. He is interested in water-related research such as water governance/management, capacity building, public perception, and water quality monitoring particularly in small water systems in rural communities in both developed and the […]
Shanti Thurber | Master’s Student
Shanti is a master’s student of Community and Regional Planning in Water and Public Engagement and in the Justice Institute of British Columbia’s Mediation and Third-Party Intervention Certificate program. She is a graduate of Simon Fraser University (B.A in Philosophy and Sustainable Development). Shanti is interested in attitudes toward water and public engagement strategies. Specifically, […]
Verenice Escamilla | Visiting PhD (c)
Verenice is a candidate for Doctor of Science in Ecology and Development Sustainable by the Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico. She has a master in coastal and marine management by the Institute of Ecology, Fisheries and Oceanography of the Gulf of Mexico where she worked on risk management and vulnerability in the watershed of Palizada River; and she studied […]
Vrushti Mawani | PhD Student
Vrushti is a PhD candidate at the School of Community and Regional Planning and is interested in water access from equity-related perspectives. More specifically, she is interested in the socio-economic aspects of urban water and wastewater management. Her doctoral research, for which she was recently awarded a fieldwork grant from IDRC, looks at examining water access […]
PJ Bell | Master Graduate (2016)
PJ is a master’s student at the School of Community and Regional Planning in the Ecological and Natural Resource Planning focus area. He grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan and received a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from the University of Regina. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant studying the effects of climate change […]
Jenna Cook| Master Graduate (2016)
Jenna is a graduate student in the School of Community and Regional Planning (Ecological and Natural Resources Planning stream) and in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability Watershed Management Certificate program. She is a graduate from the University of Victoria (B.A. Geography and Environmental Studies) and from Vancouver Island University (Advanced Diploma in GIS). […]
Cassandra Cummings | Master Graduate (2016)
Cassandra Cummings was a master’s student at the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC, in the environmental and natural resources planning stream. She completed her Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Science with a specialization in Biology, as well as her Master’s of Science in Biology, at Queen’s University. Cassandra’s biology masters thesis examined […]
Grant Diamond | Master Graduate (2016)
Grant recently completed his Master of Science at the School of Community and Regional Planning with a focus in ecological and natural resources planning and international urban studies. In 2014 he visited the University of Amsterdam’s Centre for Urban Studies where he conducted comparative research in metropolitan planning and gained an understanding of Dutch […]
David Gill | Master Graduate (2016)
David is a master’s student at the School of Community and Regional Planning. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from the University of Calgary, where wrote his thesis on the uses and abuses of the term “Sustainability” across discourses. David also studied one year in Hong Kong and worked internationally in France and Colombia, researching both private and public […]