Our research units and centres support multi-year collaborative teams and programmatic funding in specific areas.
The rich diversity of foci and approaches encompassed by nursing research defies simple categorization. In addition to exploring the research concentrations listed below, please browse the researcher profiles in Our People or search by keyword to identify experts in specific areas.
UBC Research Excellence Clusters
This Research Excellence Cluster aims to address men's mental health inequities, optimize men's mental health help-seeking experiences, and equip community-based and professional mental-health care services to expertly evaluate and treat men's mental illnesses and suicidality.
Read more on Reducing Male Suicide.
Cluster Lead: Dr. John Oliffe
This Research Excellence Cluster is a partnership-based, transdisciplinary, intersectoral and cross-social group aiming to support equity-oriented, decolonizing and culturally safe research, program, and policy development to address health and justice inequities.
Read more on Transformative Health and Justice.
Cluster Lead: Dr. Helen Brown
The Women’s Health Research Cluster aims to mobilise and catalyse more research in women's health. This is a network of researchers, clinicians, community partners, and trainees that are engaged or interested in women’s health research across disciplines.
Read more on Women's Health Research.
Cluster Co-Lead: Dr. Suzanne Campbell
This pan-Canadian coalition of researchers, perinatal health workers, service users, and community organizations is actively engaged in advancing equity and justice in reproductive health.
Read more on Justice & Equity in Perinatal Services.
Cluster Members: Dr. Emmanuela Ojukwu, Dr. Helen Brown
UBC's Designing for People research network is accelerating creativity at the nexus of social and technical problem-solving, by promoting interdisciplinary teamwork and methods, finding new paths to societal impact through partners and community, and creating sharable resources.
Read more on Designing for People.
Cluster Members: Dr. Fatawu Abdulai, Dr. Kristen Haase, Dr. Lillian Hung, Dr. Manon Ranger