Dean’s Office
Associate Dean Portfolios
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
Trudy Kavanagh
Associate Professor of Teaching
Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences
trudy.kavanagh@ubc.ca
250.807.8754
ASC 448
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
SUPPORT TEAM PORTFOLIOS

June Hansen
Manager, Administration and Operations
june.hansen@ubc.ca
ASC 447

Pieter Uni (On Leave)
Communications Manager
250.807.8706
pieter.uni@ubc.ca
LM4 655

Lindsay Howe
Acting Communications Manager
Communications and Engagement Strategist
lindsay.howe@ubc.ca
250.807.8638
LM4 654

Marissa Liebel (On Leave)
Communications and Events Coordinator
marissa.liebel@ubc.ca
250.807.8638
LM4 653

Meghan Reid (On Leave)
Web and Digital Media Strategist
meg.reid@ubc.ca
250.807.8204
ASC 406

Katelyn Singler (On Leave)
Finance Manager
katelyn.singler@ubc.ca
ASC 431

Gabriel Gock
Finance Assistant
gabriel.gock@ubc.ca
ASC 454
250.807.8642