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Faculty of Management
Okanagan Campus
EME4145 – 1137 Alumni Ave
Kelowna, BC Canada
V1V 1V7

Reception:

Tel 250.807.9462
Fax 250.807.8533
Email fom.reception@ubc.ca

Academic Programs Office:

Bachelor of Management: fom.bmgt@ubc.ca

Post-Experience Master of Management: postexperience.mm@ubc.ca

Dual Degree Master of Management: dualdegree.mm@ubc.ca

Faculty of Management Directory

Amin Ahmadi Digehsara | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Faculty of Management | amin.ahmadidigehsara@ubc.ca | EME 4161

Research Interests: Network Optimization, Public transportation planning, Optimization under Uncertainty, Operational research methodologies

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Healthcare Operations, Supply Chain, Business Analytics

Derek Blair | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | derek.blair@ubc.ca

Kim Buschert | Faculty of Management Librarian | Faculty of Management, Library Services | kim.buschert@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: Copyright and Scholarly Communications (Acting) Subject librarian for: Management, Psychology. For 2023: Anthropology, Art History, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, Geography (Human), Sociology, Sustainability, Visual Arts

Research Interests: Management communications; Science and engineering communications; Interdisciplinary and intercultural communications; Creative writing; Contemporary Canadian fiction and memoir; Contemporary East African writing and cultural productions; Intersectional feminisms; Survivor narratives; and Writing that inspires social change.

Courses & Teaching: ENGL 112 Studies in Composition MGMT 240 Introduction to Management Communications Program Leader: Go Global Tanzania (2019) and Go Global East Africa (2020) ENGL 395E “Beyond Borders: Strategies for Interdisciplinary, Intercultural Communications” ENGL 395F “Writing a Place, Writing a Self: Travel Writing, Representations of East Africa, and East African Literature and Cultural Production”

Adrienne Cook | SE-Change and Faculty Programs Assistant | Faculty of Management | adrienne.cook@ubc.ca

Allyssa Costerton-Grant | Associate Director, Industry Partnerships & Alumni Development | Faculty of Management | allyssa.costerton-grant@ubc.ca | EME

Paul G Davies | Professor | Psychology | paul.g.davies@ubc.ca | FIP326

Graduate student supervisor. Considering graduate students (Psych Science stream) for September 2023 intake.

Research Interests: Intergroup relations; stereotypes; prejudice; discrimination; diverse forms of social identity threat; perceived stereotypicality; levels of prejudice and discrimination that target stigmatized individuals.

Courses & Teaching: Introductory psychology; social psychology; intergroup relations.

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: Topic coverage includes operations management, health economics, clinically applied economic evaluation, multiple imputation of missing data, research methods, and biostatistics. Graduate Courses: Topics taught include epidemiological methods (led problem-based learning groups), research methods in rehabilitation: taught multiple imputation of missing data, conducting systematic reviews and instructor for a web-based course – Quality of Life Program: A CIHR Training Program in Rehabilitation Research.

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: MGMT 201 / 301 Introduction to Financial Accounting MGMT 202 / 302 Introduction to Managerial Accounting MGMT 330 Introduction to Organizational Behaviour MGMT 360 Business Conditions Analysis MGMT 401 Intermediate Managerial Accounting MGMT 403 Auditing and Assurance Services MGMT 405 Advanced Managerial Accounting MGMT 419H Special Topics in Management: Corporate Governance Graduate Courses: MGMT 531 Leadership

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Indigenous-led inequity reduction and sustainability efforts; Two-Eyed Seeing; Indigenous values; Indigenous worldviews and Indigenous knowledges; Feminist care ethics; Emotions and institutions; Institutional change; Institutional logics; Ethnography; Process Research; Qualitative Methods

Sarah Gumpinger | Lecturer | Faculty of Management | sarah.gumpinger@ubc.ca | EME 4149

Dustin Gumpinger | Lecturer | Faculty of Management | dustin.gumpinger@ubc.ca | EME 4149

Ross Hickey | Associate Professor | Economics, Faculty of Management | ross.hickey@ubc.ca | 250.807.8653

Research Interests: Public finance and political economy; fiscal policy (government expenditure and taxation) and how it is influenced by interactions within a hierarchy of governments (municipal, provincial and federal); elections; lobbying activity.

Courses & Teaching: Public finance; empirical economics; macroeconomics

Matt Husain | Sessional Lecturer | Faculty of Management | matt.husain@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Sustainability in Art, Fashion, and Wine; Wine Tourism, Artification Process; Luxury Brand Marketing and Management; Gender, Levinas and the Ethics of recognition.

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: MGMT 440 Brands, Culture and Marketing MGMT 442 Consumer Behavior MGMT. 441-Marketing Strategy MGMT 220-Introductory marketing Graduate Courses: Brand Management (Ph.D.) Consumer Culture Theory (Ph.D.)

Eric Li, PhD (On Leave) | Associate Professor | Faculty of Management, Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER), Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention (IHLCDP), Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (IGS) | eric.li@ubc.ca | 250.807.8853 | EME 4125

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Consumer culture; Social Innovation and social enterprise, Healthy living and well-being; Food consumption and food security; Digital economy, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of People (IoP); Social media marketing and consumption, Ethical consumerism and prosocial behaviour, Corporate philanthropy, Fashion marketing and consumption.

Courses & Teaching: MGMT220/320 Introduction to Marketing (undergraduate-level) MGMT441 Marketing Strategy (undergraduate-level) MGMT444 Marketing Research (undergraduate-level) MGMT495 Directed Studies on Fashion Advertising (2012), Digital Consumption and Marketing (2013), Fashion and Cultural Heritage (2014), Family Identity and Consumption (2018) MGMT536B – Enterprise and Innovation (Marketing module) MGMT541 – Applied Research Methods MGMT544A – Applied Project IGS515 Qualitative Methods for Management Research (graduate-level) IGS520A Special Topics on Digital Marketing and Consumption (graduate-level) IGS524 Applied Research Methods (graduate-level)

Graduate student supervisor

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: MGMT 250 Introduction to IT Management MGMT 360 Business Conditions Analysis MGMT 425 Strategic Entrepreneurial Technology

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Philosophy of education; educational ethics; the aims of higher education; education for democracy

Courses & Teaching: Philosophical Inquiry in Education Controversial Issues in Education Conceptions of Teaching and Learning Policy and Education

Mike McGinty | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | mike.mcginty@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Sustainability measurement and management; life cycle thinking; environmental and social life cycle assessment of food, feed and biomass supply chains; resource efficiency; social license and market access; trade-based externalization of environmental and social risk.

Courses & Teaching: Sustainable food systems; sustainability measurement and management; ecological economics.

Jacques-Olivier Pesme | Director, Wine Research Centre | Faculty of Management | jo.pesme@ubc.ca

Paul Pickard | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | paul.pickard@ubc.ca | EME 4101

Rebecca Pleasance | SE-Change Academic Programs Coordinator | Faculty of Management | rebecca.pleasance@ubc.ca | EME 4145

Courses & Teaching: MGMT 480 Law and Business

Darryl Reed (On Leave) | Professor | Faculty of Management | darryl.reed@ubc.ca

Adam Saifer | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Management | adam.saifer@ubc.ca

Research Interests: critical philanthropy studies; nonprofit organizations; sustainable community development; critical management studies; national identity; “the arts” and cultural production; racial capitalism; critical discourse analysis

Stacey Sandison | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | stacey.sandison@ubc.ca

Sumeet Sekhon | Research Manager | Faculty of Management | sumeet.sekhon@ubc.ca | EME 4145

Asfiya Taji | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Faculty of Management | asfiya.taji@ubc.ca

Pranita Udas | Sessional Lecturer | Faculty of Management | pranita.udas@ubc.ca

Marcela Valania | Honourary Research Associate and Senior Manager - Wine Education Programs | Faculty of Management | marcela.valania@ubc.ca | EME 4141

Anne-Marie Visockas | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management | annemarie.visockas@ubc.ca

Katarina Vucic | Lecturer | Faculty of Management | katarina.vucic@ubc.ca

Courses & Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: MGMT 330 Organizational Behaviour MGMT 411 Human Resource Management MGMT 419k Special Topics in Management – Service Human Resource Management Graduate Courses: MGMT 530 Organizational Behaviour MGMT 533 Human Resources

Nigel Whittaker | Adjunct Professor | Faculty of Management, Survive and Thrive Applied Research (STAR) | nigel.whittaker@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Dr. Zhu’s primary research interests include digital marketing, branding, consumer behavior, business analytics, and social networks. She has two streams of research: 1) investigating the impact of technology on consumers and the antecedents and consequences of consumer use of technology (e.g., AI, Metaverse) and 2) examining the effectiveness of different marketing strategies (e.g., digital marketing, business networks) and the importance of branding (e.g., brand extension).

Courses & Teaching: Marketing Strategy Service Marketing Consumer Behavior Introduction to Business

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