PhD Candidate Umay Kader studying how young adults who live with their parents navigate these living arrangements.
“Housing crises, the labour market—especially the uncertain and precarious labour market—unemployment and underemployment are all factors that influence people’s decision to stay at home or return back to their parents’ place,” PhD candidate Umay Kader is conducting interviews with people aged 25 to 34 who live with their parents in Metro Vancouver to learn how they navigate these living arrangements.
Congratulations to Prof. Renisa Mawani for being named Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Studies
Congratulations to Prof. Mawani for her appointment as a Canada Research Chair! The program enables Canadian universities to achieve the highest levels of research excellence, with chair holders improving knowledge depth and strengthening international competitiveness.
Congratulations to MA student Caitlin Chong for being awarded UBC’s Community Engagement Partnership Recognition and Exploration (PRE) Fund!
Sociology MA student Caitlin Chong has been awarded UBC’s Community Engagement Partnership Recognition and Exploration (PRE) Fund, which awards up to $1,500 to fill small resource gaps and empower community partners to build reciprocal relationships with UBC students, faculty, and staff.
Watch: Dr. Jane Sell’s Martha Foschi Lecture
Dr. Jane Sell reports on decades of social psychological research directed at determining how race/ethnicity operates in small groups and what interventions are successful in the 2022 Martha Foschi Honorary Lecture.
Prof. Raker speaks at University of Wisconsin-Madison Centre for Demography and Ecology
Prof. Raker delivered a lecture titled “Flooding, Spatial Vulnerability, and Racial Health Disparities: The Case of Hurricane Harvey” as part of the centre’s Demography Seminar Series.
Prof. Emily Huddart Kennedy to speak at UVic Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture Series on October 26th.
Prof. Kennedy will be discussion political polarization over environmental protection, arguing that everyone cares about the environment, but when we critique and demean others’ relationships with the environment, we fail to recognize important common ground.
PhD candidate Yijia Zhang among 2022 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship recipients
Zhang received the fellowship within the Race & Technology stream. Her research focuses on examining ethnic community members’ motivations and experiences of working at ethnic platforms.
Prof. Karimi to speak as part of the Center for Migration Studies New Voices Speaker Series on November 7th
In his lecture, Prof. Karimi aims to address the theoretical impasse faced by migration studies by examining existing assimilation theories against the Popperian scientific criteria.
Prof. Laura Nelson speaks to Faculty of Arts as Centre for Computational Social Science launches
Nelson discussed the importance of the centre and what she hopes to achieve as its director, saying “The social sciences have something unique to offer these ongoing conversations, including how human biases get encoded into data and algorithms, and how data, algorithms, and computation can be (re)designed to better align with various notions of the social good”.
Prof. Lauster comments on likely housing policy evolution in aftermath of Vancouver’s municipal election for the Vancouver Sun
Prof. Lauster told the Vancouver Sun it is not likely the new ABC council will entertain proposals endorsed by centre-left parties, but will presumably back more developments along major streets.