Emma Nguyen explores adoption of English names in honours thesis
Her study investigates how students select English names and the impact of this decision on their overall “success” in Anglo-Saxon countries.
Emma Nguyen, Alexander Murphy, and Emma Dierkes win SURC 2025 awards
The judging panel was comprised of past Honours students and members of the Sociology Students Association.
Honours student Lulu Wang explores impacts of diplomatic upbringing on children of foreign service officers
Her honours thesis examines how a mobile lifestyle influences the identity and worldview of the children of diplomats into adulthood.
Honours student Grace Chen explores new frontiers of community engagement in Vancouver’s Chinatown
Her thesis looks at how Chinatown navigates physical threats to existence alongside the use of online spaces as effective community spaces.
What are Calgarians’ impressions of densification policies? Zoe Duquette investigates in her honours thesis
Zoe analyzes public engagement with the process to rezone low density districts to understand the public’s perceptions of densification.
Julia Moniz-Lecce investigates racial disparities in homeschooling across Canada in her honours thesis
Julia’s honours thesis explores the unique motivations and challenges that racialized families encounter when choosing to homeschool.
Emma Dierkes explores how merit functions in non-capitalist regimes in her honours thesis
Emma’s thesis explores how merit is understood in education systems, specifically in socialist post-war East Germany.
Honours student Kyle Baanders examines the self-regulation of geek and masculine online communities
Kyle’s research uses ethnographical tools to understand how these communities regulate their own values and members.
Honours student Rowen Francisco explores the potential of queer friendship to disrupt mononormativity
Their research used in-depth interviews to explore how queer conceptions of friendship can be used to disrupt patriarchal ideologies.
Yujia Huang investigates corporal punishment in Chinese schools in her honours thesis
Her research examines how social class and past experience with corporal punishment impacts people’s understanding of it.