Congratulations to Carol Matusicky Prize winner Jacqueline Shen
Shen plans to apply for a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy to pursue her determined interest in exploring the relationship dynamics between family members and couples.
Undergraduate student Vivian Truong reveals how moral panics around COVID-19 emerged in the United Kingdom
Vivian Troung’s research project looks at how the UK government’s business as usual approach to containment led to moral panics in British newspapers prior to the W.H.O. declaring COVID-19 a pandemic.
Why people are risking arrest to join old-growth logging protests on Vancouver Island
UBC Sociology Professor David Tindall writes on how current protests over old-growth logging resemble the “War in the Woods” protests in 1993, which was the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history.
Remembering Sinikka Elliott
Sinikka Elliott was an exceptionally skilled and deeply engaged scholar with a deep-felt commitment to social justice and equality for all
Congratulations to Melinda Trinh winner of the Family Studies Graduating Prize
With her passion for research and exploring current world problems, Melinda Trinh will be pursuing a Masters of Public Policy at SFU this coming fall.
Saara Rajan takes first place at the 2021 Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference
Saara Rajan’s research project focused on the disparity in media coverage between male and female political candidates in the 2019 Canadian federal election, finding female political candidates receive less and more negative coverage than their male counterparts.
Nichole Goh’s research highlights how social support systems helped students through COVID-19
Nichole Goh’s Honours thesis project highlighted the experiences of Southeast Asian UBC students living through the pandemic and looked at how their received social support has helped them.
COVID-19: Worried about having a baby? It might actually be a good time to add to the family
UBC sociology lecturer Robyn Pitman says why not explore whether this is your time to add to the family
Monorme Chaudhury explores the lives of immigrants and their second-generation children in her Honours research project
A first-generation immigrant in Canada, Monorme Chaudhury’s interest in learning about similar cohorts who moved to Canada years ago shaped her research project to be relevant to the immigrant families and support the amendment of immigration policies in place within Canada.
Kyara Liu investigates the intersection of race and mental health for Canadian immigrants
Kyara Liu’s project explores how the added experiences of racism can further negatively impact mental health for visible minorities and immigrants.