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 stay tuned for information on the next Professorial Lecture to come soon!
Past Lectures and Recordings
Dr. Indrani Margolin is the first female full professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Northern British Columbia, where she is honoured to live and work on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh. A member of the Women’s & Gender Studies and Health Sciences graduate faculty, her work bridges spirituality, creativity, and social justice. Trained in Vedantic inquiry under Master Teacher Tulshi Sen, she applies the ancient understanding that sound creates to her arts-based research and transformative teaching. Recipient of the 2025 UNBC Teaching Excellence Award, Dr. Indrani is recognized for integrating spirituality into higher education through her co-developed Spiritual Practice Model (SPM) and Spiritually-Informed Pedagogy (SIP). As co-lead of Northern FIRE (Feminist Institute for Research & Evaluation) since 2011, she advances programs supporting survivors of violence and promotes creativity
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.