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Get to know new Associate Professor Clayton Childress

[image_aligned img_url="https://soci.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/clayton-childress-profile-e1697757229864.jpg" caption="Associate Professor Clayton Childress" align="right"] The Department of Sociology is excited to welcome

PhD student Erica Mildner investigates the gender divide in family welfare policy knowledge in sole-authored paper

"What do prospective parents know about family welfare incentives?" UBC Sociology PhD student Erica Mildner recently published a sole-authored paper in Community, Work & Family investigating this question in the contexts of the United States and Hungary.

PhD candidate Mary Jessome’s latest article explores gendered differences in understandings and experiences of intimacy

How can we understand the relationship between physical and emotional intimacy and chronic pain? PhD candidate Mary Jessome's explores this question by theorizing gendered differences in understandings and experiences of intimacy in the context of dating.

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Social Systems and Justice — Prof. Andrew Jorgenson co-authors chapter of US’ National Climate Assessment

November 17, 2023

Learn more about the work of Prof. Yue Qian

November 16, 2023

Faculty, In the Media

Prof. Sylvia Fuller comments on the BC government’s first salary transparency report in The Tyee

November 6, 2023

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River of Life (IED Committee)

December 5, 2023

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Peña Room, IKBLC

2023-24 Distinguished Speaker Series | Dr. Kimberly Kay Hoang on January 9

January 9, 2024

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

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