Introducing our new Student Services Advisor Adalynn Mai
We are thrilled to introduce Adalynn Mai, our new Student Services Advisor at UBC Sociology. Adalynn came to Sociology with a background in Science. Her main responsibilities are undergraduate and graduate student advising.
Welcome to UBC Sociology’s new Administrator Kate Lewis
After over a decade of experience at UBC, where she’s worked in a variety of roles from Enrolment Services, the Faculty of Medicine, and most recently the Department of Linguistics, Kate Lewis takes over as our new Administrator.
Congratulations to our Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference prize winners
Congratulations to Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference prize winners Hal Kowalewski, Emilia Heilakka and Teodora Marie Rawsthorne Eckmyn.
Watch: Our Honours students present their research at our 2023 Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference
We had a fantastic lineup of student presentations at our Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference. Thanks to all of our Honours students who participated!
Pay transparency is an important tool for workers and for more equitable working environments says Prof. Sylvia Fuller
“When you publish people’s salaries and they can actually see what they’re making [compared to] what their equivalent peers are making, for example, you do see the gender wage gap shrink,” says Fuller. This is relevant when you consider that in Canada, female employees aged 25 to 54 still earn 11.1 percent less per hour than male employees, and there are also significant racial wage gaps.
Watch: “Writing To Be Read: An Academic’s Guide to Crafting Lively, Persuasive Work” Contexts Senior Managing Editor Letta Page
UBC Sociology hosted Letta Page, senior managing editor of Contexts: Sociology for the Public, for a session exploring the radical act of clear, persuasive, and story-forward writing within and beyond traditional academic outlets.
Thanks to our Work Learn students!
UBC Sociology would like to say a big thank you to our Work Learn students, Lujan Ferreira, Naz Tavakolizadeh, and Maria Lee. Our Work Learns did a tremendous job helping out our Sociology staff over the past year, and we appreciate their contributions to our department.
Watch: Dr. Vanessa Watts “The Sociological Indian: Representations of Indigeneity in Canadian and American Sociology Journals”
Who are Indigenous peoples in sociology? Is there such a thing as an “Indigenous social”? In Dr. Vanessa Watts’ talk, representations of Indigeneity will be explored in thematic categories found across five sociology journals from the US and Canada.
Yvonne Liang investigates how helicopter parenting affects second-generation university students
Yvonne Liang’s Honours thesis focuses on immigrant families’ helicopter parenting and the perception of independence for second-generation university students.
Watch: Dr. Waverly Duck explains how a “food oasis” formed in a poor and working-class Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh
Dr. Waverly Duck presented a Distinguished Speaker Lecture at UBC Sociology where he explained the formation of a “food oasis,” a concentration of seven supermarkets within a quarter-mile radius in East Liberty, a poor and working-class Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.