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Hiring: Computational Social Sciences (Associate or Full Professor) 2020

Job Opening: Computational Social Science Associate- or Full-Professor

 
The Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) invites applications for a tenure-stream faculty position (rank open) with a particular focus on computational social science.

2019/2020 Distinguished Speaker Series

 
  The Department of Sociology is proud to announce this year's list of speakers for the 2019/2020 Distinguished Speakers Series. It will feature various scholars from around the world, showcasing our commitment to being internationally

Professor Lindsey Richardson finds new research on income assistance payment schedules and its effects on drug-related harm

 
Along with researchers at the BC Centre on Substance Use, they have been examining whether varying the timing and frequency of income assistance payments can mitigate drug-related harms linked to the existing once-monthly payment schedule.
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Identifiability of nonparametric mixture models, clustering, and semi-supervised learning

November 19, 2019
11:00 am - 12:00 pm


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Distinguished Speaker Series: Bernice Pescosolido

January 7, 2020
11:00 am - 12:30 pm


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Every day I use Sociology at work. The Sociology department at UBC offers great methods courses, which was a huge reason as to why I was hired. My Sociology training has also given me soft skills that help me add value to my projects. I have a deeper understanding of social circumstances and macrostructures that might be colouring the way our subjects respond.

Tiffany Eng
BA Sociology/Psychology