Nyki Kish

Associate Executive Director

Nyki Kish is an PhD candidate in the department of Sociology at the University of Victoria and graduate student member of UBC’s Transformative Health and Justice Research Excellence Cluster since 2021. Nyki is committed to public scholarship, advocacy, and community-engaged research with and for populations impacted by various forms of criminalization. She specializes in qualitative methods and knowledge mobilization, and her graduate work focuses on Canada’s rising use of life sentences, and on the histories and changing contexts of institutions of law and punishment.

She holds multiple publications and is called upon frequently as an expert in issues related to incarceration in Canada. Most recently, Nyki has been named Principal Investigator on a successful Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Development Grant, in partnership with the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria which will establish a national centre for research into the impacts and outcomes of incarceration in Canada.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.

Transformative Health & Justice

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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