The Faculty of Human and Health Sciences (FHHS) Professorial Lecture series is co-hosted by the FHHS and the UNBC Health Research Institute (HRI).
The Faculty of Human and Health Sciences (FHHS) established its inaugural Professorial Lecture Series in Winter 2025 in partnership with the UNBC Health Research Institute. A Professorial Lecture highlights the career of a tenure track faculty recently promoted to Professor, and the FHHS is proud to continue this tradition of highlighting their newly promoted faculty.
These lectures are an opportunity for the professor to reflect on their research journey, the contributions they have made to their chosen field in teaching, research, and service, and the directions they still hope to strive to.
Promotion to professor is a milestone in a faculty members career and in academia the Professorial Lecture has a long history of honoring this career by bringing together colleagues, peers and students to learn more about their journey and celebrate their achievements.
Please join us for our next Professorial Lecture from Dr. Indrani Margolin
Date: October 27, 2025
Time: 5:30pm - 6:30, reception to follow
Dr. Indrani Margolin is the first female full professor in the School of Social Work, at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is honoured to live and work on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh. Dr. Indrani is also part of the Women’s & Gender Studies and Health Sciences graduate faculty. Established in Vedantic inquiry, which honours both ancient wisdom and contemporary understanding of unity (Advaita), she carries forward the Vedic mathematics that sound creates. As the protégé of Master Teacher Tulshi Sen, from a long lineage of Himalayan masters, she has learned the power of sound through being, thought and word to create Ex-Nihilo (out of no-thing) and applies this to her qualitative arts-based research and holistic, transformative teaching. As a proud recipient of the 2025 UNBC Teaching Excellence Award, she is recognized for her curricular contributions to spirituality & creativity in higher education and championing the interweaving of theoretical and experiential learning. The spirit of these teachings comes directly from Master Sen’s manifesto of Creativism. Her dedication to integrating spirituality into the fabric of social work and education is reflected in her co-developed Spiritual Practice Model (SPM) and Spiritually-Informed Pedagogy (SIP) and related classes. Since 2011, she has co-led Northern FIRE (Feminist Institute for Research & Evaluation) and committed to shaping programs and resources that support survivors of violence. She seeks to advance the discourse on creativity, wellbeing, posttraumatic growth, and spiritual development and champions students’ and helping professionals’ creative process encompassed by the four eternal truths termed Mahavakyam Meditation.
Past Lectures and Recordings
Dr. Davina Banner is a Professor in the School of Nursing and interim Associate Vice President Research Operations at the University of Northern British Columbia and resides on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh. Davina leads an interdisciplinary program of research that is focused on cardiovascular and rural health, along with research that advances the science and practice of integrated knowledge translation and patient-oriented research. The lecture by Dr. Banner-Lukaris launched the FHHS Professorial Lecture Series in February 2025.