Trishala Dutta, PhD Student of English
“My PhD work asks how exhaustion can reveal the asymmetrical relationship between race, space, power, and well-being. Through the PSI, I hope to develop a critical and creative project that brings this research into conversation with the communities I write about. The project would not simply document experiences of exhaustion; it would use those experiences as a way of understanding the social and material conditions that shape how communities live.”
Trishala Dutta
PhD Student of English
Congratulations to Trishala Dutta, PhD student of English, for being accepted into the 2026/27 cohort of UBC’s Public Scholars Initiative (PSI)—joining 36 other doctoral students whose research extends beyond traditional academic approaches to engage with issues of public importance.
Launched in 2015, the PSI supports UBC doctoral students in pursuing research that contributes to the public good through collaborative, action-oriented, and/or creative forms of scholarship integrated into their dissertation work. Since its launch, the initiative has fostered collaborations with more than 200 partners across societal sectors in dozens of countries worldwide.
