Oral exam announcements
Our oral exam guidelines outline your path from request to examination, walking you through the required forms and expenses, as well as guidelines for examination by audio or video.
Your supervisory committee, an external examiner and an examination chair will attend your examination.
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2024-06-27
Xander Huggins, Department of Civil Engineering
Doctoral Department of Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer ScienceGroundwater-connected systems: A social-ecological framing, global data-driven applications, and sustainability implications
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2024-06-21
Bo Liu, Department of Economics
Doctoral Department of Economics Social SciencesEssays in High-Frequency Trading: Insights of trading speed, systematic risk and market sentiment
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2024-06-20
Julie Funk, Department of English
Doctoral Department of English HumanitiesDominant Hormone Protocol: Directed Life and the Biopolitics of Chemical Messages
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2024-06-17
Ashleigh Parker, Department of Psychology
Doctoral Department of Psychology Social SciencesEarlier Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease: Investigating Brain-Based Changes in Older Adults with Subjective Cognitive Decline
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2024-06-17
Marcus Vespa, Department of Chemistry
Doctoral Department of Chemistry ScienceUsing Living Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly to Form Functional π-Conjugated Nanostructures for Potential Optoelectronic Device Applications
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2024-06-17
Luiz Henrique Da Silva Correa, Department of Civil Engineering
Doctoral Department of Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer ScienceSafer Alternatives to Prevent Biofouling in Reverse Osmosis Polyamide Membrane Systems
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2024-06-13
Trung Nguyen, Faculty of Law
Doctoral Faculty of Law LawNon – Recognition of Unlawful Situations as Customary International Law: A Case-based Approach
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2024-06-10
Lynn Yu Ling Ng, Department of Political Science
Doctoral Department of Political Science Social SciencesFrom Competition to Cooperation: Reworking Care Relations in Eldercare
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2024-06-06
Jillian Harding, School of Nursing
Doctoral School of Nursing Human and Social DevelopmentIndigenous Peoples’ Experiences with Culturally Safe Health Care
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2024-05-30
Joseph Monaghan, Department of Chemistry
Doctoral Department of Chemistry HumanitiesEnvironmental Applications of Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry
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2024-05-29
Laura Jokinen, Department of Geography
Doctoral Department of Geography Social SciencesAdvancing community-level health data collection and health impact assessment practices for First Nations in British Columbia, Canada
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2024-05-29
Monique Auger, Social Dimensions of Health
Doctoral Social Dimensions of Health Human and Social DevelopmentSupporting the wholistic wellness of Métis children, youth, and families through prevention-based child and family support services
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2024-05-13
Elham Hosseini Toodeshki, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Doctoral Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer ScienceAdvances in Erbium-Doped Nanostructures: From Nanothermometry Applications to Single Photon Emission and Microresonator Innovations
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2024-05-10
Patrick Duke, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Doctoral School of Earth and Ocean Sciences ScienceInvestigating the Northeast Pacific Ocean Carbon Sink using a Machine Learning Approach
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2024-05-07
Myles Creed, Department of Linguistics
Doctoral Department of Linguistics HumanitiesWriting a Grammar of Inupiaq Emphasizing Language Revitalization, Pedagogy, and Inupiaq Education
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2024-05-07
Janice Niemann, Department of English
Doctoral Department of English HumanitiesOver the Garden Wall: Garden Settings and Genre Transgressions in British Novels of the Long Nineteenth Century
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2024-05-07
Donna Beverly McKee, School of Nursing
Doctoral School of Nursing Human and Social DevelopmentUsing Postcolonial Theory and a Cultural Safety Orientation to Understand Inuit Perspectives of Public Health TB Policy and Practice in Nunavut
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2024-05-06
Junyu Wu, Department of Linguistics
Doctoral Department of Linguistics HumanitiesPerception of L3 French vowel contrasts by L1 Mandarin-L2 English learners: a contrastive hierarchy perspective
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2024-05-03
Geoffrey deRosenroll, Division of Medical Sciences
Doctoral Division of Medical Sciences ScienceNeuronal computations supporting direction selectivity in the mouse retina
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2024-05-03
Mian Huang, Department of Civil Engineering
Doctoral Department of Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer ScienceExperimental Investigation into the Behavior of Geocell-Reinforced Bases under Freeze-Thaw Cycles
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2024-05-02
Mitchell Nascimento, Department of Chemistry
Doctoral Department of Chemistry ScienceRing-Expansion and Ring-Opening of Phosphorus-Containing Heterocycles
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2024-04-30
Yucong Zhang, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies
Doctoral Department of Pacific and Asian Studies HumanitiesEcologizing the Chinese Countryside: The Rural Fix for Urban Sustainability in the Lower Yangzi Delta
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2024-04-29
Dale McCreery, Department of Linguistics
Doctoral Department of Linguistics HumanitiesNarratives of Language, Health, and Identity
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2024-04-25
Thiago Hinkel, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Doctoral Department of Curriculum and Instruction EducationThe Use of Digital Technologies by Teachers in Their Pedagogical Practice and the Experiences and Conditions that Enable Their Work: A Case Study
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2024-04-25
Amanda Dash, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Doctoral Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer ScienceAddressing Data Scarcity with Computer Vision Methods
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2024-04-22
Inbarani Kehoe, Interdisciplinary Studies
Doctoral Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate StudiesThe Second Wave: Open Scholarship and its Impact on Higher Education
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2024-04-22
Lisa Crowshoe, Department of Indigenous Education
Doctoral Department of Indigenous Education EducationNiitsitapia’pii – Improving Well-Being in Blackfoot Youth Through Niitsi’powahsin (Speaking Blackfoot Language)
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2024-04-19
Fatemeh Nemati, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Doctoral School of Earth and Ocean Sciences ScienceAssessment and Detection of Landslide-generated Tsunamis through Numerical Modelling and Real-Time Instrumental Data
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2024-04-19
Kamelia Dousti, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Doctoral Department of Curriculum and Instruction EducationTeaching to Diversity: British Columbia Classroom Teachers’ Experiences with Inter-agency Collaboration and Inclusive Education
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2024-04-15
Michael Livingston, Department of Biology
Doctoral Department of Biology ScienceTransparent Exopolymer Particles and Phytoplankton Nutrient Physiology in the North Pacific and Arctic Oceans
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2024-04-15
Devon Caldwell, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Doctoral Department of Curriculum and Instruction EducationIntegrating Educational Technology in Primary Classrooms: Purpose and Pedagogy
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2024-04-15
Manda Roddick, Department of Sociology
Doctoral Department of Sociology Social SciencesMaking Appropriate Care Possible: An Institutional Ethnography of Rare Patient Healthwork in British Columbia
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2024-04-15
Micheal Ziegler, Department of Political Science
Doctoral Department of Political Science Social SciencesVectors of Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Social Hope and Politics of Destiny
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2024-04-12
Skye Dore-Hall, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Doctoral Department of Mathematics and Statistics ScienceComparisons of Ramp Functions and Michaelis-Menten Functions in Biochemical Dynamical Systems
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2024-04-11
Christine Huel, School of Nursing
Doctoral School of Nursing Human and Social DevelopmentThe Social Organization of People’s Experiences Enhancing Health for their Young Children after Declining Vaccines
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2024-04-11
Vishnu Perumthuruthil Suseelan, Department of Geography
Doctoral Department of Geography Social SciencesCharacterizing Phytoplankton Community Composition in the Open and Coastal Waters of the Subarctic Northeast Pacific Using In situ and Remote Sensing Techniques
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2024-04-10
Deisy Formiga Mamedes, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Doctoral Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer ScienceDesign of Frequency-Selective Surfaces for Advanced Applications
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2024-04-09
Tamara Knittel, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Doctoral Department of Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer ScienceMitigating variability of energy demand and supply in highly decarbonized energy systems
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2024-04-08
Devon Richtsmeier, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Doctoral Department of Physics and Astronomy ScienceExploration of applications of photon-counting detector computed tomography (CT) using a table-top CT system
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2024-04-08
Vida Saeedzadeh, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Doctoral Department of Physics and Astronomy ScienceDynamics of Galaxy Evolution: Insights from Circumgalactic Medium and Supermassive Black Hole Mergers
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2024-04-05
Leigh Joseph, School of Environmental Studies
Doctoral School of Environmental Studies Social SciencesFeeding Our Spirit: Connecting Plants, Health, Place and Identity. Renewing Ethnobotanical Knowledge in the Skwxwú7mesh First Nation
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2024-04-05
Meg Kapil, Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
Doctoral Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies EducationDoing well and Feeling Well: Investigating the Contributions of Stress Appraisals and Regulatory Practices on Student Success Outcomes
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2024-04-03
Gina Mowatt, School of Child and Youth Care
Doctoral School of Child and Youth Care Human and Social DevelopmentGwalxyee’enst: Love and Refusal as Felt Research with Gitxsan Youth
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2024-03-28
Alisha Gauvreau, Department of Anthropology
Doctoral Department of Anthropology Social SciencesEkTb-9, Triquet Island, Núláwitxv Tribal Area, British Columbia, Canada: A Persistent Place of Human Occupation and Investment in Haíɫzaqv Territory
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2024-03-18
Meitham Amereh, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Doctoral Department of Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer ScienceIn-vitro In-silico Modeling of Glioblastoma Tumor Growth and Invasion
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2024-03-13
Shuai You, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Doctoral Department of Mathematics and Statistics SciencePredictive modelling, Anomaly Detection, and Empirical Extraction of Variation Patterns within Longitudinal Data
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2024-03-12
Julie Prud'homme, Department of Psychology
Doctoral Department of Psychology Social SciencesA Longitudinal Investigation of Risk and Resilience in First-Year Sexual Minority Women Undergraduate Students: How Minority Stress and College-Specific Covitality Relate to Positive and Negative Psychosocial Adjustment
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2024-03-06
Jerry Lei, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Doctoral School of Earth and Ocean Sciences SciencePaleoenvironmental interpretations of the Late Triassic marine realm across the Canadian Cordillera: Slow burn of the end-Triassic mass extinction
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2024-03-05
Veronique Plante, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Doctoral Department of Curriculum and Instruction EducationBridging the divide: A narrative inquiry into post-secondary decolonization policy and practice
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2024-03-04
Rui Liu, Department of Computer Science
Doctoral Department of Computer Science Engineering and Computer ScienceSecure and Privacy-preserving Data Aggregation in Internet of Vehicles
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2024-03-01
Colin Werner, Department of Computer Science
Doctoral Department of Computer Science Engineering and Computer ScienceThe Iceberg Theory on the Shared Understanding of Non-Functional Requirements in Continuous Software Engineering
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2024-02-29
Kelsie Murchy, Department of Biology
Doctoral Department of Biology ScienceImpacts of marine shipping on the underwater soundscape and Chinook salmon behaviour
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2024-02-16
Katherine Llorca, Faculty of Law
Doctoral Faculty of Law LawLegal borderlines: Theorising rupture in the realm of interlegality
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2024-02-14
Emily Salmon, Gustavson School of Business
Doctoral Gustavson School of Business BusinessThrough the Looking Glass: Strategies in Achieving Stakeholder Performance
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2024-02-13
Radwan Sharif, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Doctoral Department of Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer ScienceMonitoring Earth Using the Software Defined Radio (SDR) Earth Imager
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2024-02-13
Virgelot Virgile, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Doctoral Department of Mathematics and Statistics ScienceMobile Guards’ Strategies for Graph Surveillance and Protection
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2024-02-06
Jamie Ojeda, School of Environmental Studies
Doctoral School of Environmental Studies Social SciencesFraming reciprocal contributions across Indigenous and artisanal fisheries: Exploring cases, conflicts, and future pathways
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2024-01-17
Juan Felipe Gomez, Department of Geography
Doctoral Department of Geography Social SciencesDrivers of Coastal Morphodynamics on a Deltaic Barrier Island in the Colombian Caribbean
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2024-01-15
Luke Trinity, Department of Computer Science
Doctoral Department of Computer Science Engineering and Computer ScienceAlgorithms for prediction of RNA secondary structure: coronavirus pseudoknots via Shapify and CParty
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2024-01-15
Rad Haghi, Mechanical Engineering
Doctoral Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer ScienceData-driven Surrogate Models for Wind Turbine Design and Maintenance Applications
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2024-01-12
Samuel Blades, School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
Doctoral School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education EducationInnovations in In-Shoe Plantar Pressure Measurement Technology for Field Based Quantification of Running Gait
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2024-01-12
Zahra Javar, Department of Computer Science
Doctoral Department of Computer Science Engineering and Computer ScienceFormal Algebraic Reasoning About Compression Function Security
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2024-01-12
Alejandro Forigua Coronado, Department of Chemistry
Doctoral Department of Chemistry ScienceMicrodroplets for drug discovery and delivery targeting neural models
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2024-01-11
Eerik-Mikael Piirtola, Department of Biology
Doctoral Department of Biology ScienceChemistry and biochemistry of Populus leaf bud resin
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2024-01-10
Julia Horne, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Doctoral School of Earth and Ocean Sciences ScienceEONS: A new biogeochemical model of Earth’s longterm evolution
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2024-01-10
Abdulaziz Alhussan, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Doctoral Department of Physics and Astronomy ScienceA Novel Synergetic Combined Modality of Nanotechnology, Chemotherapy, and Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer
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2023-12-21
Ebrahim Karimi , Anthropology
Doctoral Anthropology Social SciencesThe Petroglyphs of the Qeydu Valley in Central Iran: Style, Relative Dating, and Landscape
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2023-12-19
Lisa Silverman, Department of Chemistry
Doctoral Department of Chemistry ScienceOptimizing the encapsulation of SN-38 in PCL-b-PEG polymer nanoparticles for cancer therapy
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2023-12-18
Aikaterini Tavri, Geography
Doctoral Geography Social SciencesAssessment of Arctic sea ice properties during advanced melt using C- and L-band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar
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2023-11-17
Mohammed Hammouda, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Doctoral Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer SciencePhysical Layer Authentication for Wireless Applications
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2023-07-31
Yudi Santoso, Department of Computer Science
Doctoral Department of Computer Science Engineering and Computer ScienceMining Small Subgraphs in Massive Graphs