President, Dr. Nora Angeles

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Dipl., B.A., M.A., Phd.

Current Appointments and Affiliations:

  • Associate Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, and Institute for Gender, Race Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia -Vancouver

  • Masters Admissions Chair, School of Community and Regional Planning

  • Fellow, UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

  • Faculty Research Associate - UBC Centre for Human Settlements & Centre for Southeast Asian Research.

 
 

Awards:

  • 2018 Civic Merit Award, City of Vancouver

  • 2016 Faculty Advisor, American Institute for Certified Planners (AICP) Award for Best Student Project that Makes Contribution to Challenging Contemporary Issue

  • 2016 UBC-AMS Just Dessert Award for Student Service

  • 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

  • 2011 Filipino Who's Who in British Columbia

  • 2010 Bright Lights Award, Pacific Immigrant Resource Society (PIRS)

  • 2009 Pride of Plaridel Award (Expatriate Filipinos)

  • 2001 UBC Killam Teaching Prize

Education:

  • BA, MA Political Science, University of the Philippines (1984, 1989)

  • Diploma in Women and Development, Institute for Planning Studies, Nottingham (1986)

  • PhD Political Studies, Queen’s University (1995)

Research and Publication Areas: community, social and international development studies, participatory planning and governance, action research; politics of transnational feminist networks, women’s movements and agrarian issues, particularly in the Southeast Asian region.