Administrative leadership

 

Director
Erik Kwakkel
ischool.director@ubc.ca

 

Associate Director
Heather O’Brien
h.obrien@ubc.ca

 

Graduate Advisor
Rick Kopak
ischool.gradadvisor@ubc.ca

MACL Program Chair
Rick Gooding
rgooding@mail.ubc.ca

 

FNCC Coordinator
Amy Perreault
amy.perreault@ubc.ca

 

PhD Program Chair
Eric M. Meyers
eric.meyers@ubc.ca

 

 

Staff


Information Assistant
Debra Locke
473 IKBLC
Ph. 604 822 2404
ischool.info@ubc.ca


Contact for:

  • Key access, locker sign-up, and lost and found
  • Room/equipment bookings
  • Compiles the Weekly Digest (submit your news)
  • Adds events to iSchool website and digital signage


Program Assistant
Sandy Abah
473 IKBLC
Ph. 604 822 3459
ischool.program@ubc.ca


Contact for:

  • Prospective student inquiries
  • Current student advising (course registration, transcripts and records, submitting forms)
  • Graduate program admissions, scholarships, registration, and graduation
  • Provides administrative support to respective program areas


Educational Services Manager
Kevin Day
479 IKBLC
Ph. 604-822-2461
ischool.edsm@ubc.ca


Contact for:

  • Current student advising (experiential learning, complex inquires)
  • Graduate program admission evaluation
  • Development of experiential learning opportunities and related community engagement
  • Curriculum review and development
  • Data collection and analyses for iSchool assessment of teaching and learning outcomes


Administrative Assistant
Jerry He
473 IKBLC
Ph. 604 822 5939
ischool.assistant@ubc.ca


Contact for:

  • Administrative support for Director (scheduling meetings)
  • GRA and GAA payroll and appointments
  • Financial processing and inquires (travel expense claims)
  • Student Risk Insurance enrolment
  • Faculty recruitment, appointment, reappointment and procedures
  • Oversees Emeriti, Visiting, Adjunct and other ad hoc faculty appointments


Communications Coordinator
Belén García
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 8:30-4:30
473 IKBLC
Ph. 604 827 4523
ischool.comms@ubc.ca


Contact for:

  • Administrator for website and Resources site
  • Promotion of faculty, student and staff events, projects or initiatives
  • Manages social media channels
  • Editor for the weekly Digest and semi-annual newsletter (submit your news)


Administrator
Charlene McCombs
476 IKBLC
Ph. 604-822-2446
ischool.admin@ubc.ca


Contact for:

  • Management and Human Resources questions
  • Visiting faculty, researcher and postdoc employment processing and procedures
  • iSchool budget and research
  • Facilities and space assignments


InterPARES Trust AI Project Coordinator
Corinne Rogers
Office hours: Wednesday by appointment
corinne.rogers@ubc.ca


Contact for:

  • GAA inquiries for ITrustAI
  • Research inquiries for ITrustAI

 

News, events, jobs and information items for UBC iSchool students and alumni can be submitted via our online form.

 

Last updated on January 7, 2022 @9:37 am