Lab Members

Christa Nater, Ph.D.

Christa Nater, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow cnater@psych.ubc.ca Christa Nater received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Bern, Switzerland. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Toni Schmader’s Social Identity Lab in the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on understanding mechanisms that contribute to persisting social inequalities, in particular stereotyping processes, gender biases in work […]

Yingchi Guo, B.A.

Graduate Student

Carmelle Bareket-Shavit, B.A.

Carmelle Bareket-Shavit, B.A.

Graduate Student Carmelle (she/her) is a graduate student in the Social Identity Lab. She received her B.S. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and was a lab manager at Stanford University before joining the program at UBC in 2021. Her research focuses on the psychological experience of harm from biased behaviors, especially as it […]

Audrey Aday, M.A.

Audrey Aday, M.A.

Graduate Student aday@psych.ubc.ca Audrey (she/they) is a Ph.D. student in the Social Identity Lab. She received her BA from Cal Poly Pomona in 2016. Their research interests include gender, stereotyping, and essentialism. She’s also interested in the built environment, particularly understanding how digital and physical spaces signal belonging (or a lack thereof) to individuals on […]

Lucy De Souza, M.A.

Lucy De Souza, M.A.

Graduate Student ldesouza@psych.ubc.ca Lucy’s research focuses on understanding inclusive action, mainly describing the broad range of action that people can take in support of people who are marginalized. In this line of work, she investigates the social-psychological factors that may motivate or inhibit people from taking these different forms action. Lucy is also interested in […]

Toni Schmader, Ph.D.

Toni Schmader, Ph.D.

Professor Director of Engineering Success in Stem tschmader@psych.ubc.ca Toni Schmader, is the Director of Engendering Success in STEM, and the Social Identity Laboratory at the University of British Columbia in Canada. She has over 25 years of experience and over 100 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and published books. Her research examines how stereotypes and bias constrain […]