PhD Candidate Tori Yang receives the Migration and Mobilities Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Tori Shucheng Yang receives the Migration & Mobilities Best Graduate Student Paper Award with her paper titled “Rethinking Queer Migration: The Case of Skilled Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants in North America.”
How the demise of gay nightlife has prompted a new underground queer scene (The Conversation)
By sharing insights and experiences from in and around London’s evolving queer nightlife scene, Prof. Amin Ghaziani reveals in his new book how queer nightlife continues to thrive in spite of widespread closures.
Radically inclusive new nightlife scenes emerge from ashes of closed gay bars
Prof. Amin Ghaziani spoke to UBC News about his new book, Long Live Queer Nightlife, which explores how queer, trans and racial minorities are replacing traditional nightlife with radically inclusive parties.
PhD student Sophie Liu granted $30,000 award from UBC’s PhD CoLab program
UBC Sociology doctoral student Sophie Liu, with doctoral student Kaitlyn Cumming from the Allard School of Law, is spearheading a project that has recently been awarded funding through the PhD CoLab program.
Krisha Mistry explores how women navigate the motherhood identity with chronic illness in her honours thesis
Her research project, “Mommy Issues: Exploring the Intersections Between Motherhood and Womanhood Amidst Chronic Illness,” explores how women understand their identities within the context of the motherhood identity—and how they understand themselves while coping with a chronic illness.
Honours student Yeslie Lizarraga explores the evolution of identity for Mexican youth living abroad
Lizarraga’s research situates and explores colonial hegemony in the evolution of contemporary Mexican identity as understood by Mexican youth living abroad.
Prof. Catherine Corrigall-Brown receives funding through 2023 SSHRC Insight Development Grant competition
The Insight Development Grant will support her research project, “What happens after we win? Post-victory trajectories in the LGBTQ rights movement,” in its initial stages.
Prof. Yue Qian receives UBC Killam Faculty Research Prize for her research on inequality at the intersection of gender, family, and work
The UBC Killam Faculty Research Prizes acknowledge exceptional research and scholarly contributions, evaluated based on demonstrated impact and leadership in the field.
Association of Asian Studies’ MSB Studies Group awards prize for best journal article to Prof. Amanda Cheong
Assistant Professor Amanda Cheong, who was recently awarded the Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Studies Group’s annual Craig A. Lockard Prize for her article “Theorizing Omission: State Strategies for Withholding Official Recognition of Personhood.”
“Online dating opens up a world of diverse partners for us.” Prof. Yue Qian publishes new paper on online dating and assortative mating
Prof. Yue Qian spoke with UBC News about her new paper examining how online dating affects how Canadians select their partners in terms of education, race, nativity and age.