Behavioral Sustainability Lab

    Jiaying Zhao, PhD, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (she/her)

Principal Investigator

  Dr. Jiaying Zhao    (she/her, CV)


   Associate Professor

   Canada Research Chair in Behavioral Sustainability

   UBC Sauder Distinguished Scholar


   Department of Psychology

   Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability

   University of British Columbia


   Faculty Affiliate, Center for Effective Global Action, UC Berkeley

   Invited Researcher, J-PAL North America, MIT



PhD Students

  Annie Lalande


  Research interests:

  Sustainable food choices, health behavior change


  Brandon Tomm


  Research interests:

  Resource scarcity, poverty, compassion fade



Master's Students

  Jade Radke


  Research interests:

  Pro-environmental behavior change


  Jaden Phillips


  Research interests:

  Behavior change, climate change


  Nigel Deans


  Research interests:

  Sustainability, behavior change



Lab Alumni

  Dr. Yu Luo  currently Senior Data Scientist at Health Canada

  Dr. Rumi Naito  currently Impact Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Specialist at Revalue Nature

  Lyra Shi 

  James Wu  currently a Ph.D. student at University of Toronto

  Dr. Ryan Dwyer  currently Senior Researcher at Happier Lives Institute

  Brynley Hanson-Wright  currently at Fisheries and Oceans Canada

  Dr. Ru Qi Yu  currently Assistant Professor of Psychology at East China Normal University

  Dr. Ivana Zelenika  currently at City of Vancouver

  Andrea Byfuglien  currently a PhD student at University of Oxford

  Dr. Alejandra Echeverri  currently Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley (click here for her website)

  Anna Xiao Luo  a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University

  Yimiao Gong  a graduate student at Columbia University

  Leanne Zeng  a graduate student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Elizabeth Ponce  a graduate student at King's College in London, UK

  James Jiang  a graduate student at Southern California Institute of Architecture