Taylor Owen has joined the UBC Graduate School of Journalism as an instructor for the 2011/2012 year.

Owen is currently a Banting Post Doctoral Fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC, the Editor of opencanada.org, and Research Director for the Munk Debates.

Owen’s work is at the intersection of academics, public policy and journalism. 

His current research looks at how subnational, spatial and social data can inform the ways academics and journalists understand conflict.  Previous research has focused on the concept of human security, on which Owen is a recognized authority.

His writings on international affairs, politics and the changing nature of the media have been published internationally. He is the co-editor of The Handbook of Human Security (with Mary Martin), which will be available in print later this year.

During his PhD at Oxford University he was awarded the prestigious Trudeau Scholarship.

Owen has also been a lecturer at the Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Governance at LSE, a Post-Graduate Fellow in the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, a researcher at the International Peace and Research Institute in Oslo, and an Action Canada Fellow.

In September, Owen will be teaching graduate students across a range of courses.