Prof. Thomas Kemple speaks about his 2019 Killam Mentoring Prize
The Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring recognizes the outstanding efforts in the mentorship of graduate students by a faculty member over the course of many years. This year, the Department of Sociology’s Thomas Kemple is the recipient of the senior level Killam Mentoring Prize due to his never-ending dedication to the education, growth, and critical […]
Prof. Elizabeth Hirsh’s Research on Workplace Discrimination Lawsuits Quoted in Forbes
In the study, Elizabeth Hirsh of University of British Columbia and Youngjoo Cha of Indiana University analyzed 171 high-profile lawsuits filed against publicly traded companies from 1997 to 2008 and examined whether the verdicts and settlements led to measurable gains in gender and racial diversity in managerial representation. Hirsh and Cha compared the percentage of […]
Prof Elizabeth Hirsh Writes on Her Research in Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits on Workplace Diversity in the Harvard Business Review
Taking it to the courts has a long history in the struggle for employment equality. Look at the finance industry, for example. In the late 1990s, fed up with gendered cultures, harassment, and toxic work environments, women in finance sued their employers in droves. There was the infamous “boom-boom room” suit against Smith Barney, as […]
Research Fellow Amira Halperin Interviewed in Huffington Post on Refugees’ Contribution in Canada
Amira Halperin, a University of British Columbia sociology research fellow and lecturer, focuses her research on refugees and their integration. “They really want to be Canadians. They want to integrate. They don’t want to… look back, because they know that they don’t have anywhere to go to. So they really would like to integrate to […]
