Lab Members’ Excellence

Striving for Excellence: Lab member’s Grants, Scholarships, and Awards

The lab strives to produce extremely high-calibre and award-winning research by students that, without exception, gets published in high quality and top-notch journals. To achieve and maintain these high standards of research, lab members may be expected to dedicate more time and effort towards their research projects than students in some other labs in UBC’s counselling psychology program, and focus on developing a high level of intellectual and theoretical sophistication for their studies based on a very thorough review and deep understanding of the relevant literature bases.

Given the lab’s expectations and the time, effort, and commitment involved in producing award-winning research, this lab is a poor match for those who are not eager to do demanding research, those who do not have a passion for their research topic, and those who have no background experience (research or otherwise) related to their research topic or a key component of their research study.

Lab members have been awarded 27 times since August 2016, when this lab began at the University of British Columbia.

Below is a list of grants, scholarships, awards, and designations given to lab members:

• Ahn, Jessica: SSHRC Master’s Scholarship (2023), ECPS BIPOC Scholarship (2023), First place, American Psychological Association Division 52 (International Psychology) Conference Poster Award (2024)
• Currie, Lauren: SSHRC Master’s Scholarship (2017), ECPS Scholarship for Continuing Students x 2 (2018, 2019), ECPS Graduate Student Research Grant (2019), SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for 4 years (2021), ECPS Graduate Student Research Grant (2022)
• Hayes, Syler: SSHRC doctoral fellowship for 2 years (2022), Gladys and Gerald Sankey Scholarship (2022)
• Irceg, Iva: SSHRC Master’s Scholarship (2021)
• Kumar, Rajeena: ECPS Scholarship for Continuing Students x 2 (2017, 2018); UBC 4-Year Graduate Fellowship (2020-24)
• Lingbaoan, Jennifer: UBC Go Global Self Directed Research Award (2022), ECPS Graduate Student Research Grant (2022), Institute for Asian Research Travel Grant (2023), Second place, American Psychological Association Division 52 (International Psychology) Conference Poster Award (2024)
• Maynes, Teresa: UBC 4-Year Graduate Fellowship (2021-2025); ECPS Graduate Student Research Grant (2023)
• Outadi, Ava: North American Society for Psychotherapy Research Conference Student Poster Award (2021) for thesis research
• Panagos, Bella: Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy Student Research Grant (2024), 3rd place, American Psychological Association Division 49 (Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy) Conference Poster Award – Diversity and Social Justice Category (2024)
• Pradhan, Kesha: ECPS Scholarship for Continuing Students x 2 (2016, 2017); Best Poster Award – 2nd place. Division of International Psychology of the American Psychological Association (2018)

To see further evidence of the high quality of the research produced by students in this lab, please click this link for Published Dissertations, Theses, and Undergraduate Independent Study Projects.