Research Advisory Committee

The Research Advisory Committee provides input & advice from the broader research community to the Executive Committee and the Director on topics including, but not limited, to: research priorities; selection of visiting scholars; recruitment and appointment of postdoctoral fellows to the Institute; training programs; promoting leadership in informed public debate of policy issues related to science; and promoting public engagement on issues in science. Current Research Advisory Committee members are listed below. View the Western Research Institutes Research Advisory Committee Terms of Reference Guidelines.


Current Membership

Dan Lizotte Institute Director
Jann Paquette-Warren Director, Western Research Institutes (ex officio)
Cory Dyck Chair of Philosophy (ex officio)
Jacquelyn Burkell Associate Vice President Research (ex officio)
Bipasha Baruah Elected Member Gender, Sexuality and Womens' Studies
Alissa Centivany Elected Member Faculty of Information and Media Studies
Owen Chevalier Elected Member (Graduate) Philosophy/Psychology
Benjamin Chin-Yee Elected Member Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Adam Koberinski Elected Member (Postdoctoral) Philosophy/Physics
Georgia Mouroutsou Elected Member Philosophy
Saher Panjwani Elected Member (Graduate) Philosophy
Pascal Rodríguez-Warnier Elected Member (Graduate) Philosophy
Maxwell Smith Elected Member Health Sciences