5 things your prof wants you to know: advice for new students
Sociology Professor Neil Armitage gave his take on the best advice for first year students, urging us to “Embrace discomfort and be prepared that you will not understand everything – it gets boring when you do and probably means you have become complacent, c’est la vie.”
Professor Dr. Ethan Raker publishes research on ethnoracial low birth inequalities in the US in SSM Population Health
Through an examination of US births in the first decade of the 21st century, UBC Sociology Prof. Dr. Ethan Barker sets out to review the geography of ethnoracial inequalities in low birth weights in the US.
Prof. Jennifer Berdahl gives interview on BYU radio regarding the culture of silence around sexual harassment in the workplace
Social psychology Professor Jennifer Berdahl discusses how and why women find themselves silenced when trying to speak up against sexual harassment in the workplace on BYU Radio’s “Top of Mind” with Julie Rose.
Professor Dr. Amanda Cheong publishes research modeling barriers to health care and birth registration in stateless and migrant populations in Malaysia in Genus Journal
Extending Thaddeus and Maine’s 1994 “three delays” framework to maternal health care and birth registration processes among migrant and stateless populations in Malaysia, UBC Sociology Professor Dr. Amanda Cheong and UMS-UNicef fellow Mary Anne Baltazar find these processes to be cyclical and intergenerational.
PhD candidate D. Kyle Sutherland publishes research examining boundary negotiations of transgender identity-membership in Social Problems
Focusing on the broadness of the term “transgender” as an umbrella term for non traditional gender identities, UBC Sociology PhD candidate D. Kyle Sutherland’s latest research aims to examine the dynamics of transgender-identity membership within online communities.
PhD candidate Ryan Stillwagon and the Two-Spirit Dry Lab publishes their research in the Journal of Indigenous HIV Research
Ryan Stillwagon and the Two-Spirit Dry Lab, a collaborative initiative of Indigenous and settler researchers, conducted a study to explore drivers of sexual health knowledge with 2S and other gbMSM communities.
Mothers returning to work after COVID-19 lockdowns face lifelong earnings gap
Professor Dr. Yue Qian spoke to The Globe and Mail about the potential long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for women’s careers.
Protests over old-growth logging on Vancouver Island have sparked change, expert says
Professor Dr. David Tindall spoke to The Canadian Press about how Fairy Creek old-growth logging protests have spurred some short-changes, like temporarily deferring old-growth logging across in certain areas.
Fairy Creek is set to become the largest act of civil disobedience in Canada’s history
Dr. David Tindall talked to The Narwhal about how the protests at Fairy Creek are set to be one of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history.
Prof. Amanda Cheong publishes paper on how driver’s licenses impact undocumented US immigrants
Dr. Amanda Cheong’s new research with The Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund investigates how driver’s licenses make a difference in the lives of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.A.