The research units within CFIS develop projects and activities that apply advanced scholarship to research that promotes interdisciplinarity, internationalization, and collaboration with other units on campus, as well as with partners in the external community.

Units

• W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics (CAE)
• Institute of Applied Mathematics (IAM)
• Institute of Asian Research (IAR)
  • Centre for Chinese Research
  • Centre for India and South Asia Research
  • Centre for Japanese Research
  • Centre for Korean Research
  • Centre for Southeast Asia Research
  • Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program
  • Asia Pacific Disputes Resolution Program
  • Buddhism and Contemporary Studies Program
  • Program on Inner Asia
  • Pacific Affairs Journal
• School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP)
  • Centre for Human Settlements
• Institute for European Studies (IES)
• Fisheries Centre (FC)
  • Fisheries Economics Research Unit
  • Marine Mammal Research Unit
  • Project Seahorse
  • Sea Around Us Project
  • Fisheries Ecosystems Restoration Research
  • Quantitative Analysis and Modelling
  • Aboriginal Fisheries
• Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)
  • Centre for Population Health Promotion Research (formerly IHPR)
• Liu Institute for Global Issues (LIGI)
  • Human Security Centre
  • Simons Centre for Peace and Disarmament
• Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC)
• Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES)
• Centre for Women's and Gender Studies (CWGS)
  • Centre for Race, Autobiography, Gender and Age

More on Research Units

Each of the institutes, centres and schools is focused on a particular research agenda, but each takes an interdisciplinary approach involving UBC scholars and scientists from the natural sciences, applied sciences, health sciences, education, social sciences, and humanities.

The viability of the College’s interdisciplinary units comes in large part from their ability to attract research or endowment funds. Although many are quite small in terms of the number of faculty appointments, they rely on faculty affiliates and community associates for help with major research projects. A typical research unit may have one or two faculty appointments but 100 to 200 active affiliates or associates.

A large proportion of the faculty members with appointments in the College have joint or cross appointments in other Faculties. They serve as links between disciplinary departments and contribute to interactions among faculties and departments that lead to new discoveries and innovative advances in both research and graduate programs.