Lecturer Robyn Pitman Interviewed on Stained Roommate Relationships During COVID-19
Lecturer Robyn Pitman speaks with CBC on how relationships between families, roommate, and people cohabiting a space have been strained during the period of COVID-19. As well as how with the removal of buffers in one’s daily life has disrupted people’s routines and coping mechanisms for sharing a space together.
Prof Sinikka Elliott Interviews with FTV on Racism & Recent Police Brutality Protests
In response to recent Black Lives Matter protests taking place in every state in America, as well as around the world, Professor Sinikka Elliott spoke with Fairchild TV (FTV) to discuss racism, and more specifically how people hold false narratives about black criminality in their minds. In either link below Sinikka speaks in English but […]
Dr. Katherine Lyon talks new COVID-19 and Society course with The Ubyssey
UBC students now have the opportunity to study the COVID-19 pandemic as it unfolds in a new course, COVID-19 and Society.
Sociology MA Student, Suki Xiao, and Prof Yue Qian on What Frontline Workers in Wuhan can Teach us about Mental Health & COVID-19
The recent suicides of health care workers in New York brought attention to the Covid-19 mental health crisis emerging in the US and Europe. Yet in Wuhan, ground zero of the global pandemic, health care workers’ reports of burnout, trauma and emotional distress were already common in February. Emerging research from China shows that frontline health care […]
Prof Emily Huddart Kennedy Joins CCA Council on the Circular Economy
Assistant Professor Emily Huddart Kennedy Joins a Council of Canadian Academies focusing on the circular economy, specifically in regards to her sociological work. This council is high engagement and will continue on for the upcoming 18 months, stay tuned for more information.
Prof. Sinikka Elliott talks the burdens COVID-19 places on “women’s work”
Women are “describing feeling an inordinate amount of expectations that have been placed on their shoulders in this pandemic,” Sinikka Elliott told Vox.
Sr Instructor Kerry Greer Wins 2020 Killam Teaching Prize
Congratulations to our very own Kerry Greer who is one of the recipients of this year’s 2019-2020 UBC Killam Teaching Prize for her excellence in teaching as part of the UBC Department of Sociology. Kerry was nominated for this award due to her outstanding achievement as a teacher, and is no doubt a reflection of […]