Monorme Chaudhury explores the lives of immigrants and their second-generation children in her Honours research project
A first-generation immigrant in Canada, Monorme Chaudhury’s interest in learning about similar cohorts who moved to Canada years ago shaped her research project to be relevant to the immigrant families and support the amendment of immigration policies in place within Canada.
Why you shouldn’t ask people how they got their COVID-19 shot before you
Amy Hanser, an associate sociology professor at the University of British Columbia, encourages people not to give way to their curiosity or bring up vaccine eligibility first — even if they’re not “necessarily mean spirited.”
Welcome to a new year at UBC Sociology
We are all facing new challenges and here you are returning (or starting) your journey at UBC in the Department of Sociology. Nothing is closer to the root of our discipline than trying to understand social change and crises and there is no doubt we are witnessing change all around. Read a welcome message from Department Head Guy Stecklov.
Lecturer Robyn Pitman Interviewed on Stained Roommate Relationships During COVID-19
Lecturer Robyn Pitman speaks with CBC on how relationships between families, roommate, and people cohabiting a space have been strained during the period of COVID-19. As well as how with the removal of buffers in one’s daily life has disrupted people’s routines and coping mechanisms for sharing a space together.
Prof. Sinikka Elliott talks the burdens COVID-19 places on “women’s work”
Women are “describing feeling an inordinate amount of expectations that have been placed on their shoulders in this pandemic,” Sinikka Elliott told Vox.
