PhD Students François Lachapelle and Patrick Burnett win CSA Best Student Paper Award
for their paper, “Canadianization Movement, American Imperialism, and Scholastic Stratification: Professorial Evidence from 1977 to 2017.”
Prof. Sean Lauer wins CSA Angus Reid Award
recognizing his work with neighbourhood houses as a practitioner in applied sociology
Prof. Nathan Lauster interviewed in Metro News about net migration in Metro Vancouver
And the possible “slow leak” of baby boomers from the region
Prof. Amin Ghaziani interviewed by the Toronto Star
discussing the meaning of soaring housing prices and a lack of affordable family rentals for LGBT people: “Housing crunch is the bane of the LGBT community”
Department Award Winners Announced
Hélène Frohard-Dourlent is the winner of this year’s Sociology Doctoral Dissertation Award, which is awarded to outstanding dissertation’s completed between January and December 2016. Katherine Lyon and Hélène Frohard-Dourlent are the co-winners of this year’s Sociology Sessional Instructor Teaching Award, in recognition of their outstanding teaching in the department as sessional instructors. Madison Slobin and […]
Undergraduate Student Jory Smallenberg Wins 3M National Student Fellowship
The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and 3M Canada are pleased to announce this year’s 3M National Student Fellows, including our own undergraduate student Jory Smallenberg.
Undergraduate students Jory Smallenberg and Andy Holmes awarded the Premier Undergraduate and Wesbrook Scholarship award
These awards are the most prestigious forms of recognition UBC undergrads can receive based on academic standing, community work, and leadership.