Sex, Gender & Sexuality

Sociologists of sex, gender, and sexuality explore changing gender relations, sexual practices, inequalities, and identities across national boundaries.

Prof. Yue Qian featured in the National Review on how women still tend to marry up on income.
Prof. Yue Qian featured in the CBC News

Prof. Yue Qian featured in the CBC News

talking about how women in male-dominated occupations face negative stereotypes and higher performance standards than their male co-workers.

Prof. Yue Qian wrote an op-ed in The Conversation

Prof. Yue Qian wrote an op-ed in The Conversation

talking about her recent study on gender equality in the labour force, which found that women are much happier when they work with other women.

Professor Yue Qian writes op-ed for The Conversation

Professor Yue Qian writes op-ed for The Conversation

Sociology professor, Yue Qian, speaks on the link between education and marriage.

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Professor Becki Ross featured in the UBC Library

Professor Ross talks about how UBC Library users are now able to access archives offering an expansive and detailed look at LGBT2SQIA history.

PhD Student Hazel Hollingdale was awarded The Yale Fox International Fellowship

PhD Student Hazel Hollingdale was awarded The Yale Fox International Fellowship

PhD student in Sociology, Hazel Hollingdale, received the Yale Fox International Fellowship for her research on how the presence of women in finance could lead to more stable economic markets.

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UBC Grad Students publish an essay in The Conversation

Ryan Stillwagon, Adriana Brodyn, and Kyle Sutherland team up with their supervisor Prof. Amin Ghaziani to discuss the emergence of “queer pop-ups” in Western Canada.

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Professor Amin Ghaziani featured in UBC’s “One Great Idea” series on Sexuality

Prof. Ghaziani is one of six faculty members selected from across the entire university to write about one great idea that significantly influenced their discipline and in turn, transformed how they approach their work.

View our Fall 2018 newsletter

View our Fall 2018 newsletter

Our Fall 2018 issue of ‘ThinkSociology’ is now available online! Learn about exciting things happening within our department and read articles from profs. Sinikka Elliott, Sean Lauer, Neil Guppy, and Francesco Duina.

Professor Becki Ross featured in the Star Vancouver

Sociology professor, Becki Ross, comments on the opening of a “sex doll brothel” in Vancouver.