Flooding, Sociospatial Risk, and Population Health: Prof. Ethan Raker investigates how climate change is affecting flood patterns
In Demography, Raker explores how an underexamined dimension of vulnerability—sociospatial risk determinations—can stratify population health.
Profs. Aryan Karimi and Rima Wilkes investigate how to assign social groups to ethnic and racial categories
Karimi and Wilkes analyze ethnic and racial models and whether they settle the questions of who is race and who is ethnicity.
New research brief from Prof. Ethan Raker and PhD candidate Rose Xueqing Zhang on emergency orders in BC
Prof. Ethan Raker and PhD candidate Rose Xueqing Zhang introduce a new way to estimate the population burden of environmental emergency orders.
Prof. Yue Qian explores how sexuality conflicts are quietly breaking relationships apart
A new study from Prof. Yue Qian identified how this surprising factor undermines relationship satisfaction and stability.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani examines the situational fluidity of identity labels for LGBTQ+ people in new paper
His new article shows that LGBTQ+ people adopt multiple identity labels and adjust their usage relative to the interactional demands at hand.
Prof. Lindsey Richardson receives funding for projects from Health Research BC’s 2024 C2 and Reach competitions
Professor Richardson received funding for two projects that seek to support people with lived and living experiences of substance use through knowledge generation and mobilization.
Inequality is driving the climate crisis: Prof. Andrew Jorgenson and UBC Sociology graduate students publish new paper
A new article published in Energy Research & Social Science analyzes the effects of inequality on emissions in Canadian provinces from 1997 to 2020.
Prof. Neda Maghbouleh appointed as a new Canada Research Chair
Her work is among the first to identify and empirically study Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities in the U.S. and Canada.
Indigenous-led solutions to health crises: UBC Research Cluster led by Prof. Kimberly Huyser tackles pandemic inequities
Prof. Kimberly Huyser spent the past four years researching how the pandemic has affected Indigenous communities and she’s now launched a new research cluster focused on centering Indigenous-led solutions in public health crises.
Prof. Amanda Cheong offers a sociology of statelessness in a new open-access article
The article explores how conflicts over who counts as a stateless person play out below the formal letter of the law in Malaysia.