Dean’s Office

Associate Dean, Faculty and Research

Lael Parrott
Professor
Biology & Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences
lael.parrott@ubc.ca
250.807.8122
ASC 451

Portfolio: Provides leadership and oversight for the Faculty’s research, scholarly activities, and collaborative initiatives and partnerships. The portfolio is also responsible for the development, implementation, and sustenance of a multi-year strategic personnel plan that promotes proactive recruitment, retention, career advancement, recognition, and ongoing success of an excellent and diverse community of colleagues. Responsibilities include, among others:

• designing, reviewing, and implementing a Faculty research plan;
• providing leadership in developing Faculty hiring strategies for programs and departments;
• proving leadership and support for research initiatives that promote Indigenous inclusion and the values of respect, relationship, responsibility and reverence as outlined in the UBC 2020 Indigenous Strategic Plan
• support and cultivate a Faculty research culture based on principles of equity, diversity and inclusion

T. Don Nguyen
Manager, Research & Strategic Initiatives
250.807.9059
don.nguyen@ubc.ca
ASC 455

Jody Ainley 
Assistant, Strategic Personnel Planning and Development
jody.ainley@ubc.ca
250.807.9234
ASC 455

Tiffany Gross
Faculty and Research Administrative Assistant
250.807.8804
tiffany.gross@ubc.ca
ASC 406

Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Training

Andrew Jirasek
Professor
Physics
andrew.jirasek@ubc.ca
250.807.8812
ASC 354

Portfolio: Provides administrative and academic, leadership, management, and support for research-based graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. Promotes community, affinity, and supportive peer networks to continue to advance programs and activities within the faculty. Responsibilities include, among others:

Graduate Students

• Facilitates recruitment, admission, registration, and advising of high-quality graduate students;
• Meets and provides guidance and support for student leaders representing the various program graduate student societies;
• Works with the curriculum committee, departments, faculty and the College of Graduate Studies on Interdisciplinary and
• Disciplinary Programs and opportunities;
• Provides oversight for graduate student awards and support for student scholarship applications.

Postdoctoral Trainees:

• Provides leadership and oversight for the development and implementation of policies and guidelines for supporting postdoctoral trainees;
• Develops, sustains and supports a culture of postdoctoral training across the faculty;
• Represents the faculty on committees and liaises with UBC Okanagan’s Postdoctoral Association;
• Provides support for nomination packages for externally-funded postdoctoral opportunities.

Lindsay Odne
Manager, Graduate & Postdoctoral Training
lindsay.odne@ubc.ca
ASC 431

ASSOCIATE DEAN, UNDERGRADUATE RECRUITMENT, SERVICES, AND SUCCESS

Scott Reid
Associate Professor
Biology
scott.reid@ubc.ca
250.807.8761
ASC 403

Portfolio: Provides leadership for the development, implementation and sustenance of a strategic and holistic framework that ensures success for our undergraduate students throughout their life-cycle – from prospective students to graduates – through, among others:

• coordinated undergraduate enrolment planning and management;
• effective and efficient recruitment activities;
• facilitation of admission and registration of high-quality students;
• provision of excellent educational experiences, both curricular and extra-curricular;
• promotion of community, affinity, and supportive peer networks;
• Facilitating access to relevant services, including academic and non-academic advising and support.

Sarah Furgason
Student Support Assistant
fos.students.ubco@ubc.ca
ASC 431

Associate Dean, Academic and Awards

Portfolio: Provides leadership for the development, implementation, and sustenance of a strategic approach to teaching, learning, and curriculum that is of the highest quality, pedagogically sound, fiscally prudent, socially responsive and adaptive; and facilitates the realization of competencies and outcomes that reflect our core mission and values through, among others:

• facilitation of curriculum innovation and renewal within the Faculty, of cross-Faculty and cross-institutional collaborative programs, and of related consultation, approval, and implementation processes;
• ongoing monitoring of curriculum effectiveness;
• formal, regularly-scheduled self-studies and external reviews of academic programs;
• promotion of effective and efficient experiential and co-curricular learning programs;
• support for, and enhancement of, innovative teaching and learning initiatives;
• promotion of a culture of recognition for innovative curricula and pedagogical accomplishments.
• coordinating undergraduate awards and recognitions that are not related to research.

Department email: foscurriculum.ubco@ubc.ca

Megan Lochhead
Curriculum & Academic Programs Manager
megan.lochhead@ubc.ca
foscurriculum.ubco@ubc.ca
ASC 406

Jasmine Haley
Curriculum & Academic Programs Coordinator
jasmine.haley@ubc.ca
250.807.8350
ASC 406

Ashley Cinnamon
Curriculum & Awards Assistant
foscurriculum.ubco@ubc.ca
fosawards.ubco@ubc.ca
ASC 406