UBC Students visit City Hall to meet with Vancouver Mayor
UBC Students visited Vancouver’s City Hall to meet with Mayor, Kennedy Stewart. They were given a tour and an opportunity to have a Q&A with the mayor himself.
Postdoc Research Fellow Amira Halperin is hosting a talk on, “Integration of Middle Eastern Migrants to Canada through Media, Information and Communication Technologies”
This talk will explore the impact of media and technology on immigrants and refugees. The technological revolution has transformed the experiences of refugees throughout the stages of their journeys: pre-migration, in transit, and in their new surroundings.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani produces a video for his research on Cultural Archipelagos.
The video is available on the main page for City & Community and on Vimeo as well.
Professor Becki Ross receives the Angus Reid Practitioners/Applied Sociology Award
Congratulations to Professor Becki Ross and Jamie Lee Hamilton, who are the co-winners of the CSA’s Angus Reid Practitioners/Applied Sociology Award for 2019. Both Ross and Hamilton are the first co-winners of the award.
Prof. Sinikka Elliott published an op-ed in The Conversation on raising children under suspicion and criminalization
The Conversation published an op-ed by Professor Elliott, about the difficulties of raising children under a veil of suspicion. The article has also been posted in the National Post.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani was featured in PsychCentral on Queer neighborhoods becoming more diverse
“LGBTQ Americans are an incredibly diverse group of people. Why wouldn’t we expect that diversity to express itself in the places they live and call home as well?” said Amin Ghaziani, professor in UBC’s Department of Sociology.
Professor Amin Ghaziani curates a special symposium on “Queer Urbanisms”
Prof. Ghaziani curates a special symposium and authors the lead essay in the new issue of City & Community, the official journal of the community and urban sociology section of the ASA.
Prof. David Tindall and Prof. Neil Guppy featured in the Ubyssey
Professors Tindall and Guppy talk to the Ubyssey, a student newspaper, about protest and activism at UBC.
Prof. Sinikka Elliott featured on CBC’s On The Coast, talking about her new book, Pressure Cooker
There’s nothing like a nice home-cooked meal – at least, that’s the message cooking show gurus, health experts and others bombard us with. An author says the reality is that many families just aren’t able to make that happen every day and it causes angst.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani’s new research featured in multiple news media sources
Prof. Ghaziani’s new research on “cultural archipelagos,” new queer spaces that are emerging beyond the gaybourhood, is featured in Pink News, one of the largest online news media sources in the UK, as well as the California-based news media Instinct Magazine, the Surrey Now-Leader, and Mashable, an international digital media news source.