Gabrielle Abando investigates spatial mechanisms of immigrant enclaves in her honours thesis
Through a case study of Vancouver’s Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood — a hub for Filipino Vancouverites — Gabrielle examines how immigrant enclaves cultivate well-connected and integrated immigrant communities.
2024 Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference!
Community partnership with Urban Ethnographic Field School receives award from Community-University Engagement Support Fund
Recipes from the Neighbourhood House: Celebrating Food Heritages of the Downtown Eastside, a community partnership project co-coordinated by UBC Sociology Professor Kerry Greer, has recently been announced as a recipient of the Community-University Engagement Support (CUES) Fund.
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.
Lillie Goodson explores how LGTBQ+ people negotiate their identities in the outdoors
Honours student Lillie Goodson is a fourth-year student working under the supervision of Tony Silva. Her research project, “Out in the Outdoors,” uses qualitative methods to explore how LGBTQ+ people negotiate their LGBTQ+ identities while participating in outdoor activities and communities.
Prof. Amanda Cheong investigates “racial exclusion by bureaucratic omission” for Rohingya people in Myanmar
Prof. Amanda Cheong’s latest research on the bureaucratic foundations of the Rohingya crisis, and resistance by Rohingya activists, is now available by advance access in Social Problems.
Honours student Teodora Rawsthorne Eckmyn examines “commoning” through community-based arts practices
Teodora Rawsthorne Eckmyn is a fourth year Sociology major. Her research interests lie in the areas of cultural and urban sociology, to which she seeks to apply a critical intersectional lens.
Honours student Liva Bahji conceptualizes the “sisterhood wound” in her thesis
Liva Bahijj’s thesis “Unsmothering Girlhood: The Geometry of the Sisterhood Wound” offers a sociological approach to the degenerative and often default emotional dynamics between women.
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