Prof. Amanda R. Cheong appears as a featured member on American Sociological Association website
Prof. Amanda R. Cheong appears as a featured member on the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) website following testimonial on work supported by ASA grant.
Prof. Kimberly Huyser speaks at CoVaRR-Net’s “Vaccines 101: The role of vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic” webinar
Prof. Kimberly Huyser was among four CoVaRR-Net researchers to participate in the latter’s “Vaccines 101: The role of vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic” webinar, discussing Indigenous engagement within public health and vaccine science.
5 things your prof wants you to know: advice for new students
Sociology Professor Neil Armitage gave his take on the best advice for first year students, urging us to “Embrace discomfort and be prepared that you will not understand everything – it gets boring when you do and probably means you have become complacent, c’est la vie.”
Prof. Jennifer Berdahl gives interview on BYU radio regarding the culture of silence around sexual harassment in the workplace
Social psychology Professor Jennifer Berdahl discusses how and why women find themselves silenced when trying to speak up against sexual harassment in the workplace on BYU Radio’s “Top of Mind” with Julie Rose.
Mothers returning to work after COVID-19 lockdowns face lifelong earnings gap
Professor Dr. Yue Qian spoke to The Globe and Mail about the potential long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for women’s careers.
Protests over old-growth logging on Vancouver Island have sparked change, expert says
Professor Dr. David Tindall spoke to The Canadian Press about how Fairy Creek old-growth logging protests have spurred some short-changes, like temporarily deferring old-growth logging across in certain areas.
Fairy Creek is set to become the largest act of civil disobedience in Canada’s history
Dr. David Tindall talked to The Narwhal about how the protests at Fairy Creek are set to be one of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history.
Taxing rich peoples’ empty homes isn’t helping the housing crisis
This BNN Bloombeg article on the global housing crisis looks at data from Professor Nathanael Lauster’s recent research on vacant housing in Vancouver and whether empty homes taxes are a viable solution to the crisis.
Complicity and silence around sexual harassment are common – Cuomo and his protectors were a textbook example
Dr. Jennifer Berdahl, who studies the role witnesses play in helping and protecting harassers, discusses how the role played by many in Cuomo’s office fits a pattern of silence, complicity and intimidation.
Virtual contact was worse for older people during the pandemic than no contact, study finds
CNN reports on Dr. Yue Qian’s research on how virtual contact was more likely to result in older people feeling lonely.