Prof. Amin Ghaziani Receives two ‘Top Cited Articles of 2018-19’ Awards from Wiley Publishing
Congratulations to Professor Amin Ghaziani for receiving two “Top Cited Article, 2018-2019” awards from Wiley publishing . His articles, Performative Progressiveness: Accounting for New Forms of Inequality in the Gayborhood (co-Authored with doctoral student Adriana Brodyn) and Cultural Archipelagos: New Directions in the Study of Sexuality and Space were both published in City & Community […]
How Has Home Cooking Changed Over the Decade? Prof Sinikka Elliott Answers in Mother Jones
On New Year’s Eve in 2009, I found myself hunched over a food mill, a kitchen contraption that’s part-strainer, part-masher, and used to turn soft food solids into a liquid. I was on Step 14 of (what felt like 14,000 steps of) a French short rib recipe, inspired by a brief Julia Child revival brought […]
Prof David Tindall Interview on Newsmaker of the Year: Greta Thunberg
Editors at Glacier Media in British Columbia have chosen the Climate Emergency as the newsmaker of the year in 2019. Its significance as an issue globally, nationally and locally was a recurring theme in our coverage, as this story from Glacier’s Nelson Bennett notes. Included at the bottom of the story are local links to […]
Prof Becki Ross Comments on the Passing of Vancouver Sex Workers Advocate, Jamie Lee Hamilton, in the Vancouver Sun
Hamilton began to transition in 1969 so that she could live in the world as a woman, as friend Becki Ross put it, and she started to work in the sex industry as a teenager. Ross, a sociology professor at the University of B.C., has known and worked with Hamilton since the mid-1990s, when she […]
Prof Jennifer Berdahl’s Research on the Disproportionate Success of Blonde Women in Refinery29
When Anne Morgan began working as the head of the hair department on the new film Bombshell — about the accounts of sexual harassment that helped bring down Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes — she hung an image on the wall of her trailer for inspiration. Really, it was several images of actual female Fox […]
Prof Amy Hanser Interviewed by CBC on Latest Research
When we get on a public bus, many of us hide behind a book, gaze intently at our phones, stare out the window and daydream, or eavesdrop on the intimate details of stranger’s conversations. We probably don’t give much thought to the protocols and conventions governing the complex urban ecosystem all around us. But Amy […]
Prof. Sylvia Fuller Comments on the Concept of a Gig Economy in MacLean’s
On the morning of Nov. 6, a group of Foodora food delivery workers arrived for a “breakfast rally” in front of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, which is holding a series of hearings through early 2020 on their right to join the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Clad in a telltale pink jersey, one Foodora […]
UBC Declares Climate Emergency
This morning, the UBC Board of Governors endorsed the following UBC Declaration on the Climate Emergency. I would like to thank all those who have engaged with us on this issue, especially UBC’s students, faculty and staff members. Their activism and passion were essential in getting the university to act on the climate crisis. I […]
VIDEO: Prof Amy Hanser Interviewed by Citynews on New Research
What are the social rules for riding the bus? A UBC researcher is trying to find out. Tom Walsh jumps on board to see is what socially acceptable when transiting with strangers.
Prof Amy Hanser Studies The Unwritten Rules of Public Transit
If you’re a transit user, you likely make dozens of micro-decisions on every bus or SkyTrain ride. Who do you sit next to, and who do you give up your seat for? When should you make or avoid eye contact? Is it ever appropriate to eat your lunch, make a phone call, take a nap, […]