Maged Senbel Pronunciation guide
B.Arch. (Oregon), M.Arch.(McGill), M.Sc., Ph.D.(UBC), MCIP, RPP
Associate Professor | Associate Director
- Office: LASR 207A
- Email: maged.senbel@ubc.ca
Maged Senbel researches community engagement in climate action across worldview differences. He is currently co-leading a Worldviews in Energy and Climate Engagement project, and co-leading a Wind Energy Worldviews project in a partnership between Accelerating Community Energy Transformations and the Estonian Islands Energy Agency. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with a track record of collaboration in various communities, disciplines and universities.
A commitment to teaching and service has been an integral part of his career at UBC, including current appointments as Associate Director at SCARP, joint faculties representatives on the UBC Vancouver Senate, chairing SCARP’s Teaching Learning and Curriculum committee, and previous roles as SCARP’s PhD program chair, EDI+I faculty lead and numerous internal and tri-council awards adjudication panels, chairing—contributions recognized through the Dean’s Award in Excellence in Service. In his teaching, he pairs planning student teams with community and public sector organizations to produce policy and design recommendations addressing urgent societal problems. His teaching was recognized through a Killam teaching prize.
Maged supervises projects, directed studies and internships in a wide variety of topics related to climate action, community engagement, and polarization. He employs an experiential learning approach and mentors his students through a sequence of individual and team based projects in real world situations that mimic professional practice.
His teaching activities have directly engaged numerous communities and groups with little or no access to planning professionals. Student work has resulted in a series of professional quality outputs and ongoing relationships that have served both the partner communities and planning students and graduates.
Maged Senbel is an associate professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) who researches community engagement in climate action across worldview differences. He is currently co-leading a Worldviews in Energy and Climate Engagement project, and co-leading a Wind Energy Worldviews project in a partnership between Accelerating Community Energy Transformations and the Estonian Islands Energy Agency. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with a track record of collaboration in various communities, disciplines and universities.
A commitment to teaching and service has been an integral part of his career at UBC, including current appointments as Associate Director at SCARP, joint faculties representatives on the UBC Vancouver Senate, chairing SCARP’s Teaching Learning and Curriculum committee, and previous roles as SCARP’s PhD program chair, EDI+I faculty lead and numerous internal and tri-council awards adjudication panels, chairing—contributions recognized through the Dean’s Award in Excellence in Service. In his teaching, he pairs planning student teams with community and public sector organizations to produce policy and design recommendations addressing urgent societal problems. His teaching was recognized through a Killam teaching prize.
Maged's commitment to inclusive planning and just transitions to resilient and sustainability communities is closely aligned with SCARP’s vision of Knowledge in Action - Planning in Partnership, and SCARP's mission of generating and transforming knowledge into action by planning in partnership to improve lives and communities and the quality of built and natural environments.
In addition to the profound and increasing challenges that cities have faced since their inception, the many challenges of climate change require cities to employ creative and often radically transformative solutions. Planning for climate change, and for maintaining healthy and resilient communities in the face of finite resources, requires planning agencies to promote agendas of change that are neither popular nor easily realized. Maged's work seeks to facilitate this transformation and to contribute to its fair and inclusive implementation.
Research and Specialties
- Climate change
- Conflict in social-ecological urban contexts
- Equity
- Participatory planning
- Public engagement
- Urban development