Honours student Ayden Clarke examines challenges facing worker cooperatives in BC
Ayden’s paper explores the worker cooperative support ecosystem in BC, attempting to determine the challenges that these organizations face.
Statelessness by design: Prof. Amanda Cheong examines Myanmar’s erasure of the Rohingya
Bureaucracies that “fail” to document every citizen may be deliberately creating statelessness for populations like the Rohingya.
Alexander Murphy investigates how non-binary transmasculine people enact masculinity in honours thesis
We spoke to Alexander about his research and what he’s learned so far through his study’s qualitative, semi-structured interviews.
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.