CIEDAR and UBC Health co-present “Hearing Indigenous Voices During the COVID-19 Pandemic” dialogue session
CIEDAR & UBC Health co-presented, “Hearing Indigenous Voices During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” last week with UBC Sociology Professor Kimberly Huyser organizing the event. The hybrid dialogue sessions discussed lessons learned about conducting research and Indigenous resilience during the pandemic with researchers based in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand.
Congratulations to this year’s SSHRC scholarship recipients!
Congratulations to our students Lara Antebi, Jiaxin Gu, Carly Hamdon, Parker Muzzerall, and Mark Shakespear, who received SSHRC funding for their research projects!
Introducing our new Student Services Advisor Adalynn Mai
We are thrilled to introduce Adalynn Mai, our new Student Services Advisor at UBC Sociology. Adalynn came to Sociology with a background in Science. Her main responsibilities are undergraduate and graduate student advising.
Welcome to our new Operations Coordinator Jasmin Acuña
Jasmin Acuña provides support in Human Resources, Events, Health and Safety, General Administration, and Facilities (Access and Maintenance).
Welcome to UBC Sociology’s new Administrator Kate Lewis
After over a decade of experience at UBC, where she’s worked in a variety of roles from Enrolment Services, the Faculty of Medicine, and most recently the Department of Linguistics, Kate Lewis takes over as our new Administrator.
Congratulations to our Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference prize winners
Congratulations to Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference prize winners Hal Kowalewski, Emilia Heilakka and Teodora Marie Rawsthorne Eckmyn.
Watch: Our Honours students present their research at our 2023 Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference
We had a fantastic lineup of student presentations at our Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference. Thanks to all of our Honours students who participated!
Working from home is a human rights issue, Prof. Sylvia Fuller tells CBC News
“It’s not just a convenience issue for people. It is a human rights issue, insofar as it maps onto folks with some disabilities [and] health conditions [who really need] that flexibility,” she said. “[There’s] a lot of people who are quietly still not wanting to get infected and wanting to protect their health and that of their family.”
Pay transparency is an important tool for workers and for more equitable working environments says Prof. Sylvia Fuller
“When you publish people’s salaries and they can actually see what they’re making [compared to] what their equivalent peers are making, for example, you do see the gender wage gap shrink,” says Fuller. This is relevant when you consider that in Canada, female employees aged 25 to 54 still earn 11.1 percent less per hour than male employees, and there are also significant racial wage gaps.
Watch: “Writing To Be Read: An Academic’s Guide to Crafting Lively, Persuasive Work” Contexts Senior Managing Editor Letta Page
UBC Sociology hosted Letta Page, senior managing editor of Contexts: Sociology for the Public, for a session exploring the radical act of clear, persuasive, and story-forward writing within and beyond traditional academic outlets.