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New research brief from Prof. Ethan Raker and PhD candidate Rose Xueqing Zhang on emergency orders in BC

 
Prof. Ethan Raker and PhD candidate Rose Xueqing Zhang introduce a new way to estimate the population burden of environmental emergency orders.

Prof. Amin Ghaziani and PhD student Alyy Patel speak to the Toronto Star about community building efforts by queer women

 
Groups like the Queer South Asian Women’s Network, founded by Alyy, are in line with a larger trend shifting away from permanent venues to one-off events.

Register for SOCI 495A/599C: Demography of Disasters in Term 2

 
Professor Ethan Raker will be teaching SOCI 495A/599C: Demography of Disaster on Mondays from 2-5 PM in Term 2.
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Three aspects attracted me to the PhD program in the Department of Sociology at UBC—the quality of the faculty members, the caliber of current graduate students enrolled in both the MA and PhD programs, and the financial support offered to incoming graduate students. These aspects combined generated a stimulating and productive academic environment with which to carry out study and research.

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