News & Stories

Apr 23, 2020
Update: Vocational Rehabilitation Counselling Masters Program

This update is for those of you who have applied to or expressed interest in the Vocational Rehabilitation Counselling (VRC) Masters’ Program. It is with great regret that we inform you that we have been unable to recruit a sufficient number of applicants to make the VRC cohort viable and therefore will not be offering […]
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Mar 19, 2020
PSCTC Facilities and Test Library are closed until further notice

PSCTC Contact E-mail: psctc.testlibrary@ubc.ca Phone: 604-822-1364 In emergencies, please e-mail PSCTC Director, Dr. William McKee at  william.mckee@ubc.ca
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Mar 16, 2020
COVID-19: Faculty of Education Updates

  Please refer to https://educ.ubc.ca/covid-19/ for Faculty of Education’s COVID-19 updates, and stay healthy & safe everyone!   Thank you, ECPS Department  
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Jan 07, 2020
Welcome Dr. Anusha Kassan

We are pleased and excited to welcome Dr. Anusha Kassan. Dr. Kassan is joining us as an Associate Professor (under review) for the High Impact Position in Child & Youth in  Mental Health. Dr. Kassan comes from the University of Calgary where she was an Associate Professor in the Werklund School of Education. Dr. Kassan’s […]
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Nov 28, 2019
Congratulations to CNPS and SACP on the reaffirmation of their doctoral program’s accreditation

Congratulations to the Counselling Psychology (CNPS) and School and Applied Child Psychology (SACP) programs on the reaffirmation of their doctoral program’s accreditation from the Canadian Psychological Association for another year.
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Nov 05, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Bruno Zumbo!

Congratulations to Professor Zumbo on his invited lecture tour “A funny thing happened on the way to (the next) salvation” being held in Rome, Turin and Copenhagen Nov. 4-18— over a series of 4 lectures he takes a critical look at the initial bold claims and eventual by-products of the big data, machine learning, ‘data […]
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Oct 31, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Izabela Schultz!

Congratulations to Dr. Izabela Schultz, ECPS’ CNPS Professor, for being awarded the 2019 Outstanding Achievement Award by the International Association for Scientific Advancement of Psychological Injury and Law. This an annual award of the ASAPIL, an international association with a major membership base in the United States and Canada,  which has a mandate to advance scientific […]
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Oct 15, 2019
School Psychology (SCPS) is now School and Applied Child Psychology (SACP)

Important Announcement: The School Psychology Programs (SCPS) are now the UBC School and Applied Child Psychology Programs (SACP) Offering Ph.D., M.A. and M.Ed. programs.
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Aug 09, 2019
Welcome Dr. Ed Kroc

We are pleased and excited to welcome Dr. Ed Kroc Dr. Kroc is joining us as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology. Dr. Kroc has already been working at ECPS as an Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and was previously a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Statistics. Dr. […]
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Jul 04, 2019
Welcome Dr. Terence Tracey

We are pleased and excited to welcome Dr. Terence Tracey Dr. Terence Tracey is joining us for the next three years as a Visiting Professor in Counselling Psychology. Dr. Tracey comes to us from Arizona State University where he was a Professor since 1999 and served as Department Head of the Counselling Psychology Program. Prior […]
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Jul 02, 2019
Congratulations to ECPS SPED Students: I-Chen Wu, Karen Kester and Lilian Wataka

  I-Chen Wu (SPED PhD), Dr. Owen Lo, Advisor Dr. Marion Porath Scholarship in Education A scholarship is offered annually by Merv Porath in memory of his wife, Dr. Marion Porath (B.Ed. 1974, M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1988) for a graduate student studying High Ability within the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, […]
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Jun 13, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Aloysius Anyichie!

Congratulations to Aloysius Anyichie, ECPS’ HDLC Ph.D. Graduate, for being awarded the G.M. Dunlop Distinguished Contribution Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Educational Psychology 2019. The Canadian Association for Educational Psychology (CAEP) annually sponsors the G.M. Dunlop Awards for the best Masters and Doctoral theses or equivalent scholarly work in educational psychology. The awards are […]
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Mar 07, 2019
Congratulations to ECPS Associate Professor Dr. Sterett Mercer

Please join the Department in congratulating Dr. Sterett Mercer, Associate Professor in ECPS, and his colleagues for being awarded a $2.4 Million research grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to support their 5-year research project Reducing Youth Violence and Racism/Discrimination: The Efficacy of Comprehensive Prevention Strategies (CPS). Funded through the NIH’s Minority Health and Health Disparities […]
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Jan 14, 2019
Congratulations to ECPS Associate Professor Robinder Bedi

Congratulations to ECPS Associate Professor Robinder Bedi for being awarded a grant from The Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race (Division 45 of the American Psychological Association) in its inaugural small research grants program. Dr. Bedi’s project: “Yatra” (The Journey): Integrating Family Yoga into a Group Counseling: Program for South Asian Men […]
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Congratulations to ECPS Professor Anita Hubley

Congratulations to ECPS Professor Anita Hubley for becoming the Associate Editor of Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences (MISS). MISS is a BioMed Central (BMC) interdisciplinary scholarly journal for the social sciences published by Springer Press. The journal publishes high-quality, open access measurement instruments intended for scientific use across various disciplines (e.g., sociology, psychology, education, […]
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