Congratulations to Prof. Renisa Mawani for being named Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Studies
Congratulations to Prof. Mawani for her appointment as a Canada Research Chair! The program enables Canadian universities to achieve the highest levels of research excellence, with chair holders improving knowledge depth and strengthening international competitiveness.
Watch: Dr. Jane Sell’s Martha Foschi Lecture
Dr. Jane Sell reports on decades of social psychological research directed at determining how race/ethnicity operates in small groups and what interventions are successful in the 2022 Martha Foschi Honorary Lecture.
Prof. Raker speaks at University of Wisconsin-Madison Centre for Demography and Ecology
Prof. Raker delivered a lecture titled “Flooding, Spatial Vulnerability, and Racial Health Disparities: The Case of Hurricane Harvey” as part of the centre’s Demography Seminar Series.
Celebrating our Faculty’s Recent Publications
Last month, UBC Sociology held a Book Launch Party to celebrate some of our faculty who published new books during the pandemic. After a long time of doing research and writing remotely, it was wonderful to come together to share what we had learned.
Study abroad with a Global Seminar in Guatemala
Study Power and Oppression and Theories of Civil Society on location in rural Guatemala! UBC Professors Sylvia Berryman (Philosophy) and Thomas Kemple (Sociology) are teaming up once again with Go Global to offer a unique encounter with global systems, oppression, poverty, and civil society activism.
UBC Sociology PhD student Mark Shakespear among co-authors awarded Canadian Sociological Association 2022 Best Article Award
Shakespear was awarded the award for the paper “Mapping the environmental field: Networks of foundations, ENGOs and think tanks.” written alongside William Carol and Nicolas Graham of the University of Victoria.
Watch: Dr. Allison Pugh’s Distinguished Speaker Lecture
Thanks to Dr. Allison Pugh for kicking off our 2022/2023 Distinguished Speaker Series with her lecture, “The Stratification of Human Contact: The Present and Future of Connective Labour.”
Prof. Wilkes co-authors paper on cultural and institutional theories of trust for Socius Journal
The paper “Can Bureaucrats Break Trust? Testing Cultural and Institutional Theories of Trust with Chinese Panel Data” aims to test cultural and institutional theories using data from three waves of the China Family Panel Studies, assessing how political and social trust respond to treatment by public officials that respondents consider unfair.
UBC Health offers up to 25,000$ in research funding to faculty members collaborating to develop new teams, ideas and translate findings from innovative health-related research
The funding, granted through the Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Awards is additionally directed to projects focusing on promoting diversity and inclusion, and having the potential to impact health equity.
UBC Sociology graduate students presenting at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting
UBC Sociology PhD students Tom Einhorn, Allison Laing, Parker Muzzerall, and Rose Xueqing Zhang are traveling to Los Angeles this week to present their research at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. We are excited to share some of what they will be presenting.