UBC Sociology professor and graduate students receive 2024 awards from the Canadian Sociological Association
Professor Lindsey Richardson and graduate students Sonali Patel, Tori Yang and Manlin Cai were all honoured with awards for their research.
Professor Andrew Jorgenson and graduate student co-authors examine carbon intensity of human well-being in Canadian provinces
Prof. Jorgenson, along with graduate research assistants Taekyong Goh, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, Mark Shakespear, Nicolas Viens & Grace Gletsu, examines the effect of economic growth and income inequality on the carbon intensity of human well-being.
PhD student Sonali (Alyy) Patel theorizes a denial reaction to coming out in her new paper
In Sociology Compass, Patel uses data from qualitative interviews with queer South Asian women in Canada to propose revisions of Goffman’s Stigma theory.
UBC Sociology alum Frances Shaver appointed to the Order of Canada for her research on sex work
Concordia University professor emeritus and UBC alum Frances Shaver (BA’67, MA ’72) is one of 64 new members of the Order of Canada this year.
Is the golden age of London’s queer nightlife nearly over? Prof. Amin Ghaziani answers in the Guardian
Prof. Amin Ghaziani relives the three months he spent visiting London’s underground queer spaces in the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter.
PhD candidate Manlin Cai receives 2024 Canadian Population Society Student Paper Award
Manlin was awarded for her working paper, “Workplace Authority in China: Gender, Parenthood, and Work Sectors.”
PhD candidate Tori Yang receives CSA’s Sociology of Migration Cluster Best Student Paper Award
PhD candidate Tori Yang receives the Canadian Sociological Association award for her paper, “Gendering Queer Migration: Evidence from Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants.”
Prof. Lindsey Richardson and PhD student Alyy Patel receive 2024 awards from the Canadian Sociological Association
Prof. Richardson was honoured with the Angus Reid Applied Sociology Award, while graduate student Alyy Patel won the Best Student Paper Award.
Dr. Anne Martin-Matthews discusses the challenges Canadians may face as they age in the National Post
Canada’s oldest age group is also its fastest-growing — Statistics Canada forecasts that the number of people aged 100 years old would hit 106,100 by 2073.
Emotions may matter more than facts in shaping individual support for renewable energy, new study shows
For the Conversation, PhD candidate Parker Muzzerall and his co-authors write about their recently published paper examining how climate concerns shape people’s view of energy sources.