Honours student Ayden Clarke examines challenges facing worker cooperatives in BC
Ayden’s paper explores the worker cooperative support ecosystem in BC, attempting to determine the challenges that these organizations face.
Statelessness by design: Prof. Amanda Cheong examines Myanmar’s erasure of the Rohingya
Bureaucracies that “fail” to document every citizen may be deliberately creating statelessness for populations like the Rohingya.
Prof. Yue Qian comments on the “motherhood penalty” on Canadian women in the Globe and Mail
Hiring managers are more likely to select a candidate that does not have a resume gap related to child care, Qian says.
Alexander Murphy investigates how non-binary transmasculine people enact masculinity in honours thesis
We spoke to Alexander about his research and what he’s learned so far through his study’s qualitative, semi-structured interviews.
Flooding, Sociospatial Risk, and Population Health: Prof. Ethan Raker investigates how climate change is affecting flood patterns
In Demography, Raker explores how an underexamined dimension of vulnerability—sociospatial risk determinations—can stratify population health.
Profs. Aryan Karimi and Rima Wilkes investigate how to assign social groups to ethnic and racial categories
Karimi and Wilkes analyze ethnic and racial models and whether they settle the questions of who is race and who is ethnicity.
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.
More people may flee to B.C. after Trump’s immigration clamp down: Prof. Irene Bloemraad on CBC News
Prof. Irene Bloemraad was interviewed about President Trump’s anti-immigration offensive and what it could mean for Canada.
Prof. David Tindall comments on head of UBCIC’s stance reversal on Northern Gateway pipeline
Tindall called Grand Chief Stewart Phillip’s recent comments reversing his previous opposition to the scrapped Northern Gateway pipeline “very surprising.”