Some breakthrough initiatives
Resilient Coasts Canada Platform: Stephanie Chang
"Resilient-C" facilitates knowledge and resource sharing between coastal communities to support hazard risk reduction. It helps identify similarly vulnerable peer communities, and relays their risk reduction actions. The platform currently includes 170+ coastal communities and 3500+ risk reduction actions from across Canada.
Transforming Cities from Within: Maggie Low
Transforming cities focuses on the transformative potential of public sector innovation at the intersection of equity, climate change, and decolonization in Canadian cities. Current dominant systems and paradigms in the public sector require fundamental reframing by the public sector, addressing root causes.
Lab memberships and data centres
Faculty in the writing world
Heather Campbell
Leonie Sandercock
Erick Villagomez
More about how UBC research makes a difference
UBC: Inspiring people, ideas and actions for a better world
UBC’s mission is pursuing excellence in research, learning and engagement
to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society
across British Columbia, Canada and the world.
UBC is one of the top 40 research-intensive universities in the world and a recognized leader in research and scholarship at the graduate and postdoctoral level across an enormous range of both disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields, with nearly 900 postdoctoral fellows and over 10,000 graduate students on the UBC-Vancouver campus. In 2018-19, UBC earned more than 669 million in research funding, with record number of 9,544 projects supported.
Some of how we’ve made a difference:
 | UBC ranks second in Canada overall and 13th globally out of more than 1,115 participating institutions from 94 countries, based on its contributions through research, outreach and stewardship. -UBC Institutional Rankings, 2021 |
Image  | UBC ranks third in the world for taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, which includes UBC’s early commitment to carbon neutrality and ongoing extensive response to the climate emergency. -UBC Institutional Rankings, 2021 |
Image  | UBC tops the rankings in Canada for its research on and institutional approaches to sustainability. This includes sustainable land use and providing for mixed-use, accessible communities, as well as diverse arts and cultural facilities. -UBC Institutional Rankings, 2021 |
Image  | UBC ranks seventh overall and first in Canada for sustainable land management, support for threatened species, and commitment to local biodiversity. -UBC Institutional Rankings, 2021 |
Image  | Among institutional efforts to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), out of over 1,400 institutions, UBC places:
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