PhD candidate Yijia Zhang wins AoIR’s 2024 Student Paper Award
Her paper, “Beyond Platform Control: Gendered Frictions in Food Delivery Work,” examined the controls facing women working as food delivery workers in China.
Research projects run by Profs. Emily Huddart and Qiang Fu awarded SSHRC Insight Grants
Prof. Huddart’s research project explores affective climate polarisation while Prof. Fu’s project focuses on socio-political realities of Chinese Canadians.
Get to know UBC Sociology Professor Irene Bloemraad
UBC Sociology welcomed Dr. Irene Bloemraad to UBC this summer as a Professor. We spoke to Dr. Bloemraad about her research and interdisciplinary work.
Prof. Andrew Jorgenson analyzes stranded fossil fuel assets’ impact on power plant emissions
In a new study published in Nature Communications, Prof. Andrew Jorgenson and his co-authors investigate whether power plants emit less or more in anticipation of stronger climate policies.
Welcome to our new graduate students for 2024W
UBC Sociology is excited to welcome our incoming 2024W graduate student cohort! We are excited for the new perspectives and research they bring to our community.
Can a just transition achieve decarbonization? PhD student Parker Muzzerall examines fossil fuel community opposition
UBC Sociology PhD student Parker Muzzerall recently published his first sole-authored paper. He uses interviews with oil and gas workers to reframe decarbonization as an issue of ontological security.
Same-sex couples now live in 99.5 per cent of U.S. counties, Prof. Amin Ghaziani finds in new study
The trend is now being driven primarily by male couples moving away from traditional ‘gaybourhoods’ and into the broader community.
Gendering digital labor: Prof. Yue Qian analyses work and family digital communication across 29 countries
In a new paper, Prof. Yue Qian explores how the labor of using technology for digital communication is gendered across the domains of work and family.
Fronts and Friends: Prof. Lindsey Richardson examines social contingencies in the management of drug debt in new paper
In a new paper, Prof. Lindsey Richardson explores experiences in managing debt to dealers and within social networks adjacent to drug markets.
Prof. Amanda Cheong speaks with Contexts about her award-winning article about driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants
Prof. Amanda Cheong spoke with the Contexts Blog in celebration of her recent award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Public Sociology and Sociological Practice.