About the Graduate Student Peer Advising Team

The Peer Advisors offer advice and access to resources to all graduate students in the department, and facilitate lively, collegial exchanges with students from many countries and backgrounds.  Their role as a community builders is unparalleled.  They stay tuned into what goes into building and sustaining collegial relations amongst diverse participants. The Peer Advisors are available for support and questions with respect to:

• Day-to-day UBC logistical questions
• Degree progress and time-lines
• Technology resources
• Writing, research, and assignments
• Conferences, presentations, and publishing
• Relationships between students and their supervisors
• Relationships between students and other students
• Adapting to life in Vancouver

This Blog site has been created to enable the Peer Advising team to share important information and useful academic and personal resources.

If you have any questions, please don’t be shy: Contact us by email anytime! Our address is: edcpgradpeeradvisor@gmail.com

Who We Are

2015-2016 Peer Advisors

Davor Egersdorfer, MEd student

Tiantian He, MA student

Fernando Murillo, PhD student

Rachel Ralph, PhD student

Jee Yeon Ryu, PhD student

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2014-2015 Peer Advisors

Liz Beattie, PhD student (also the 2015 Summer Peer Advisor)

Michelle Gautreaux, PhD student

Conrad Nickels, MEd student

Nasim Peikazadi, MEd student

Junsong Zhang, MEd student

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2013-2014 Peer Advisors

Mahtab Eskandari, PhD student

Heather Fisher, Masters student

Sam Stiegler, PhD student

Andrea Webb, PhD student

Kwesi Yaro, Masters student

Guopeng Fu, PhD student (2014 summer PA)

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2012-2013 Peer Advisors

Anita Prest, PhD student

Sarah Meli, MA student

Andrea Webb, PhD student

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2011-2012 Peer Advisors

Julia Ostertag, PhD student

Anita Prest, PhD student

James Gautier, PhD student

Jung-Hoon Jung, PhD student

Sarah Meli, MA student

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2010-2011 Peer Advisors

Julia Ostertag, PhD student

Hannah Spector, PhD student

Chessa Adsit-Morris, MA student

Gloria Rodriguez, MA student

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2009-2010 Peer Advisors:

Ashley Welsh, MA student

Maria José Athie Martinez, PhD student