Below you will find videos of students giving oral presentations. Scroll through the full archive or click on the blue panel below to filter by category. The videos range across disciplines, format, and length. They also range across style; each speaker has different strengths and they take slightly different approaches to their presentations. As you watch, take note of when you are more or less engaged—when you are interested, excited, or lose focus. These will be signals for how you can plan your own presentation. The idea is not to copy any one of these students directly but to get familiar with how students present at university as you consider how you will present when it is your turn.
Browse Presentations
Contraceptives and Double Standards
May 5, 2023
In this classroom presentation, Danae Kimura shares a project (originally created with partner CY Hilde) on how responsibilities for contraception are unfairly divided between the sexes.
Metabolism of Vape Products
May 5, 2023
In this classroom presentation, Liza Grountseva and Ishita Mahajan discuss how vape products affect the body and how their metabolism presents health risks.
Drug Delivery Systems
May 5, 2023
In this classroom presentation, Cherisse Cheng and Theodore Perez explore current and future mechanisms for administering pharmaceutical drugs.
Infant Respiratory Rate Estimation
February 1, 2023
In this online conference presentation, Stephanie Quon discusses her research on non-contact methods for estimating infant respiratory rates in low-resource settings.
Drospohila and Short-Term Memory in Flies
February 1, 2023
In this conference presentation, Dennis Truong discusses his experiments tracking the neural pathways in the short-term memory formation of flies.
Characterizing Islet Cells of the Pancreas
February 1, 2023
In this online conference presentation, James Chae shares his research on different genetic expressions of islet cells in the human pancreas.
Contactless Monitoring for Neonates
January 11, 2023
In this online conference presentation, Sahar Zandi Nia considers the clinical feasibility of contactless monitoring for neonates, based on a study conducted at a maternity ward in Kenya.
Head Impacts in Women’s Soccer
January 11, 2023
In this online conference presentation, Ava Katz discusses how using video can increase accuracy for measuring head impacts in women’s soccer.
Misrepresentations of Asians in Western Media
October 7, 2022
In this conference poster presentation, Emma He, Michelle Xu, Emma Nash, and Adrienne Tang share their research on the misrepresentations of Asians and Asian culture in western films.
Sexual Harrassment in Restaurants
October 7, 2022
In this conference poster presentation, Nyla Nguy shows how sexual harassment of female restaurant workers is a problematic and less-recognized aspect of contemporary rape culture.
Analyzing Dress in The White Tiger
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Lynn Shibata analyzes the significance of dress in Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger.
Luxury in Hip Hop Culture
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Mowoya Ometoruwa explores the relation between the luxury fashion industry and hip hop music in the U.S.
Volunteering and Reduced Mortality
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Rachel Leong introduces a study that tries to understand why volunteering leads to reduced mortality among the elderly.
Unearthing a Middle Shang Dynasty Tomb
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Pengpeng Chen and Congui Gu discuss the findings of an archeological excavation in China that helps shed light on burial practices from the Middle Shang period.
Media Representations of older Asian Canadians during COVID-19
October 7, 2022
In this conference paper, Lynda Li argues that we can discern multiple stereotypes across Canadian news media’s representations of older Asian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Physical Activity Coaching for Spinal Cord Injuries
October 7, 2022
In this conference paper, Kenedy Olsen shares the results from her study of how physical activity coaching can help those with spinal cord injuries as they transition back into living independently in the community.
Compliance and Perceived Wealth
October 7, 2022
In this conference paper, Julio Silva and Mark Parinas describe the study they developed to test whether people are more likely to comply with those they think are wealthy.
Mobility and Mood in Young Adults
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation and discussion period, Isaac Koenig-Workman discusses the methods and results from his study of how out-of-home mobility can impact the mood and cognition of young adults.
Decolonizing the UBC Pharmacy Program
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Brenda Zou and Olivia Burton share their experiences serving on a subcommittee dedicated to decolonizing and Indigenizing the UBC Pharmacy program.
Fetishization of Asian Women and Anti-Asian Violence
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Blossom Cheng looks at various cultural forces that contribute to the fetishization of Asian women and the related dehumanization that leads to violence.
Attachment Styles and Hookup Culture
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Aida Ardelean shares findings from her study of how attachment style impacts attitudes toward and experiences with hookup culture.
Post-Socialist Nostalgia in Vietnam
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Quang Mai explores the persistence of socialist-era aesthetics and values in a politically transformed modern Vietnam.
Media Objectivity in Coverage of China
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Emma Martin-Rousselle discusses how geopolitical goals and media policy influence various countries’ news coverage of China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Indigenous Literature as Trauma Narrative
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Roua Aldash argues that a decolonized trauma theory offers an effective lens for interpreting various works of Indigenous literature.
The 2010 Olympics’ Impact on Homeless Youth
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Cedric Lin argues that the Government’s actions around the 2010 Olympics have had ongoing consequences for homeless youth in Vancouver.
Posthumanism and Brown Girl in the Ring
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Lillian Philipp-Tajcnar uses theories of posthumanism to interpret Nalo Hopkinson’s dystopian novel Brown Girl in the Ring and its treatment of spirituality.
Car Conversations Podcast
October 7, 2022
In this conference presentation, Viaan Wu shares her experience making a podcast about pop culture and social justice.
Collective Witnessing in Persepolis
October 2, 2021
In this class presentation, Lillian explores how Marjane Satrapi uses visual elements to bear collective witness to trauma in the graphic memoir Persepolis.
Historical Orienters in Graphic Narratives
October 2, 2021
In this short class presentation, Tova Gaster argues that Thi Bui includes images of newspapers to help contextualize cultural trauma for an international audience in the graphic memoir The Best We Could Do.
Panel on Graphic Narratives
October 2, 2021
In this full panel of classroom presentations, the four speakers discuss different narrative techniques used in graphic memoirs and field questions on their presentations.
P.O.W. Camp in Hong Kong
October 2, 2021
In this roundtable presentation, Alicia Leong recounts the experience of researching the hidden history of a building in Hong Kong.
Inclusive Place Names
October 2, 2021
For this roundtable contribution, Jacob Ereshefsky explains the importance of using inclusive place names for outdoor activity sites. cw: discussion of racial slurs.
Gender-based Violence in Costa Rica
October 2, 2021
For this roundtable contribution, Emma Villalobos presents on social movements addressing violence against women in Costa Rica. cw: gender-based violence.
Gender-based Violence in the U.K.
October 2, 2021
In this roundtable presentation, Elise Hodges surveys media awareness campaigns about domestic violence in the U.K. cw: gender-based violence.
Public Spaces in the Present
October 2, 2021
In this summary of a group project, Mary Jim-Akaya investigates the gap between the ideal of inclusive public spaces and the flawed reality in Canada.
Capitalism, Disease, and Gender in Severance
October 2, 2021
In this conference presentation, Sam Mumford argues that Ling Ma’s critique of capitalism in the novel Severance develops through its treatment of disease and gender.
Commodified Foreign Culture in White Noise
October 2, 2021
In this conference presentation, Vidushy Avasthi argues that foreign culture is reduced to a commodity by the white characters in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise.
The Outcasts of Capitalism
October 2, 2021
In this conference presentation, Mariam explores similarities in the treatment of poor “surplus populations” in two different contexts: Cairo, Egypt and Vancouver, Canada.
Comparing Healthcare in Canada and the U.S.
October 2, 2021
In this conference presentation, Ava Tabatabaei compares the healthcare systems in Canada and the U.S. in relation to the countries’ differing political ideologies.
The American Dream and Low-Income Immigrants
October 2, 2021
In this conference presentation, Lillian argues that the narrative of the American Dream does not match the reality faced by many immigrants to the U.S.
Mass Media and Criminalized Protest
October 2, 2021
In this conference presentation, Mary Jim-Akaya argues that mass media represents protestors as criminals to delegitimize their complaints.
Psychopathy and Politics
October 2, 2021
This conference paper explores how the competitive personality traits of psychopaths at first help but ultimately hinder a career in politics.
Indigenous Health During Covid-19
September 21, 2021
In this presentation, Sushmita Mahadani discusses the ways in which health inequities, climate change, socio-economic status, and racism have impacted the Indigenous experience of COVID-19 in Canada.