2025 PROSE Awards: Profs. Seth Abrutyn and Amin Ghaziani announced as finalists
The two UBC Sociology faculty members were named as finalists in the category of Cultural Anthropology and Sociology.
Can a just transition achieve decarbonization? PhD student Parker Muzzerall investigates in his first sole-authored paper
Muzzerall shows how those living and working in the Oil Sands remain skeptical of renewable energy, optimistic about the long-term viability of fossil fuels, and strongly oppose the proposal for a just transition.
PhD candidate Tori Yang awarded Fox International Fellowship at Yale University for 2024-25
Tori will join Yale as a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
UBC Sociology professor and graduate students receive 2024 awards from the Canadian Sociological Association
Professor Lindsey Richardson and graduate students Sonali Patel, Tori Yang and Manlin Cai were all honoured with awards for their research.
UBC Sociology alum Frances Shaver appointed to the Order of Canada for her research on sex work
Concordia University professor emeritus and UBC alum Frances Shaver (BA’67, MA ’72) is one of 64 new members of the Order of Canada this year.
PhD candidate Tori Yang receives CSA’s Sociology of Migration Cluster Best Student Paper Award
PhD candidate Tori Yang receives the Canadian Sociological Association award for her paper, “Gendering Queer Migration: Evidence from Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants.”
Prof. Lindsey Richardson and PhD student Alyy Patel receive 2024 awards from the Canadian Sociological Association
Prof. Richardson was honoured with the Angus Reid Applied Sociology Award, while graduate student Alyy Patel won the Best Student Paper Award.
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.
PhD Candidate Tori Yang receives the Migration and Mobilities Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Tori Shucheng Yang receives the Migration & Mobilities Best Graduate Student Paper Award with her paper titled “Rethinking Queer Migration: The Case of Skilled Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants in North America.”
PhD student Sophie Liu granted $30,000 award from UBC’s PhD CoLab program
UBC Sociology doctoral student Sophie Liu, with doctoral student Kaitlyn Cumming from the Allard School of Law, is spearheading a project that has recently been awarded funding through the PhD CoLab program.