March 18, 2025
Dr. Sharon Stein has been selected as a 2024 Killam Faculty Research Fellow
Dr. Sharon Stein has received a 2024 UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding research and scholarly achievements across diverse disciplines. This prestigious award, which is granted based on intellectual distinction, character, and personal qualities, enables faculty to pursue full-time research during a recognized study leave.
Dr. Stein’s work explores how education can equip individuals to navigate complex social and ecological challenges in relevant, relationally rigorous, and intergenerationally responsible ways. Her research focuses on the difficulties of confronting historical and ongoing realities of colonialism and climate change in various academic fields and professional practices, as well as the challenges of implementing regenerative and reparative social and institutional change.
Dr. Stein’s research approach is deeply collaborative. She partners with international research collectives, including the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective, the Critical Internationalization Studies Network, and the Teia de 5 Curas Network of Indigenous communities in Brazil. She is also a Visiting Professor with the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa.
Award recipients are selected by UBC’s Faculty Research Award Committee.
Dr. Stein and other award recipients will be recognized at a Faculty Research Awards reception on June 5, 2025, hosted by UBC’s Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation.
To view the full list of 2024 UBC Faculty Research Award winners, visit the Office of Research Prizes and Awards’ announcement page.
