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Dr. Yukari Seko (she/her) is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director at the School of Professional Communication and Director for the Centre for Studies in Food Security. Since 2019, she has been serving as a member of the  Research Ethics Board at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

Dr. Seko's program of research encompasses an eclectic mix of transdisciplinary topics, including immigration and food, ageing, grief care, mental health, disability studies, solution-focused communication, and research ethics. While Dr. Seko is a methodologically versatile researcher, her expertise resides in critical narrative inquiry. Much of her work takes a critical narrative approach to research with historically marginalized people including people with physical and mental disabilities and racialized persons whose voices are frequently engulfed by labels of deviance and/or abnormalities. Listening to people’s lived experience narratives requires careful explorations into their discursive milieu, as people’s stories never exist in a cultural vacuum.

Creative work:

Health communication; food communication; immigrants; ageing; cultural food security; end-of-life communication; disability studies; solution-focused communication; mental health

Examples of Recent Publications:

• Seko, Y., Tiessen, J., Wong, V., & Adachi, R. (2026). Food diversity and aging well in a multicultural city: Japanese Canadian (Nikkei) seniors and Community Congregate Dining. Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 45(1), 152-161.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980825100524
• Seko Y., Noack, A.M., Mosey, C., Esteron, F., Wegener, J., and Komisar, J. (2026 March, 30) Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campus Food Security Watch 2024. Â鶹ÊÓƵ: RShare Institutional Repository. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32920/31795600 
• Seko Y., Tiessen J., Wong V., Igarashi E., and Adachi R. (2025 December, 16). Flavours of Home: Providing Culturally Inclusive Meals through Meals on Wheels. Â鶹ÊÓƵ: RShare Institutional Repository. https://doi.org/10.32920/30889820
• Seko, Y., Wong, V, Juando-Prats, C., Rahouma, L., Yu, J., & Henry-Noel, N. (2025). Feeding children while Asian: Immigrant families’ experiences with school lunches in Canada. Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/728
• Seko, Y., & Pivalica, I. (2025). Contours and Canyons of Health: Teaching health equity through Body Mapping. Communication Teacher, 39(3), 237-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2024.2427126