Marketing Metro Vancouver in Canada’s next immigration wave
Prof. Nathanael Lauster talks to Business in Vancouver about how densification is needed to increase housing affordability for newcomers in Vancouver.
Prof. Miu Chung Yan and Prof. Sean Lauer on their new book about neighbourhood houses and building community in Vancouver
UBC Social Work Prof. Miu Chung Yan and UBC Sociology Prof. Sean Lauer speak to Redeye Radio about their new book Neighbourhood Houses: Building Community in Vancouver .
Working from home post-pandemic could offer mixed results for women, researchers say
UBC Sociology Prof. Elizabeth Hirsh and UBC Economics Prof. Dr. Marina Adshade speak to CBC about how an increase in remote work could reinforce inequities for women.
As Warming Fuels Disasters, Relief Often Favors White People
Prof. Ethan Raker spoke with the New York Times about his ongoing work on FEMA aid and how various stages in the process disadvantage residents in Black neighborhoods.
Chinese women were already discriminated in the workplace. A three-child policy might make things worse.
Prof. Yue Qian spoke with CNN about the growing gender inequality in the labor market in China, and what needs to be done to help address this issue.
Why people are risking arrest to join old-growth logging protests on Vancouver Island
UBC Sociology Professor David Tindall writes on how current protests over old-growth logging resemble the “War in the Woods” protests in 1993, which was the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history.
Forty Years of Queering the Suburbs
Dr. Amin Ghaziani interviewed by Jezebel on the subject of queering of suburbs.
Why some straight men have sex with other men
UBC Sociology Professor Dr. Tony Silva explains why some straight men have sex with other men.
COVID-19: Worried about having a baby? It might actually be a good time to add to the family
UBC sociology lecturer Robyn Pitman says why not explore whether this is your time to add to the family