Meet Our Students (2020)
Read the biographies of our Doctor of Business Administration students below.
Benjamin Ameh
Doctoral Student
Ameh is a supply chain and logistics professional. Ameh’s research interests include supply chain optimization for business process re-engineering. He will investigate the impact of full-scale deregulation of the downstream oil and gas industry in Nigeria. Read more…
Edward Appiah-Brafoh
Doctoral Student
Edward is a human capital professional with 15 years of experience in human resources management and development. His research topic is “Developing Human Capital to Accelerate Time to Autonomy in the Oil and Gas Industry”. Read more…
Nathan Banda
Doctoral Student
Banda leades a team of frontline professionals in nursing and allied health in patient and family centered care in Alberta. His initial research proposal focuses on exploring strategies to deal with the challenges of nursing recruitment and retention in rural Canadian communities. Read more…
Tasha Brooks
Doctoral Student
Tasha Brooks works as an Indigenous education navigator at Vancouver Island University (VIU), where she is also a term instructor in the faculty of Indigenous/Xwulmuxw Studies. Brooks’ research aims to enhance and encourage capacity building and self-determination through entrepreneurship by conducting research for First Nation entrepreneurs and Indigenous entrepreneurial support organizations Read more…
Bill Danielsen
Doctoral Student
Danielsen is the executive director for Enterprise Identity Services with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC). His initial research proposal examines corporate risks and solutions related to insider threat in the Canadian Government. Read more…
Dilash Krishnapillai
Doctoral Student
Krishnapillai is a leading project management expert who works with private and public sector organizations to build Project Management Offices (PMO) and project delivery models. His research explores the factors that can facilitate agility in organizations and establishes the interplay between these factors. The outcome of this study would enable senior management in organizations to adopt strategies that can facilitate agility and respond promptly to changes in the internal and external ecosystems. Read more…
Shelley Legin
Doctoral Student
Shelley Legin has three decades of senior-level experience and innovation in all levels of government and the financial and post-secondary sectors. Legin’s research will focus on the role of the intermediary in mobilizing both the field of impact investing and higher education system actors to address low participation rates of non-traditional learners in post-secondary education in a scalable way. Read more…
Michael Morrison
Doctoral Student
Michael Morrison is the Executive Director of General Support Services with Island Health in British Columbia. Morrison’s doctoral research focuses on strategy implementation and how managers experience systems in publicly funded healthcare organizations undergoing strategic change. This will be investigated through case studies that explore management practices in the fields of strategy-as-practice and institutional theory. Read more…
Karly Nygaard-Petersen
Doctoral Student
Nygaard-Petersen is a brand and marketing strategist with BCAA and Evo Car Share. Her doctoral research focuses on primary factors in micromobility adoption in urban populations. She aims to understand what will drive long-term adoption of new mobility modes in urban centres, ultimately aiming to support cities globally to become better equipped in implementing strategies for first and last mile transit options that are both smart and truly zero emissions. Read more…
Nkem Onyegbula
Doctoral Student
Onyegbula is an independent consultant and principal with CYNKON Inc. His doctoral research leverages his professional experience and explores ways of enhancing change management models by understanding the intrinsic and irrational motivational behaviours of individuals via cognitive and social psychology to drive the adoption of IT applications. Read more…
Peter Rasquinha
Doctoral Student
Peter Rasquinha is an instructor at the Computer Information Systems department and a systems analyst at the Information Technology Services (ITS) department, both at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, BC. His doctoral research interests are in the institutional logics metatheory within the area of the microfoundations of organizational institutionalism, specifically the Pache and Santos framework that deals with how professionals and others respond to competing institutional logics Read more…