Undergraduate Students Give Thesis Presentations at Honors Mini Conference
Lauren Hindley (2016/17 Honors Student) discussing her thesis titled: “How Has Being a ‘Third Culture Kid’ (TCK) Affected the ‘University Experience of UBC Students?” Aida Mwanzia (2016/17 Sociology Honors Student) answers questions about her thesis “When Dadaab Closes: Examining Possibilities for Somali Integration in Kenya” […]
Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Silvia Bartolic and Nicole Malette win Killam Teaching awards.
Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Silvia Bartolic have been awarded a Killam Teaching Prize, and Nicole Malette has received the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, for 2016/2017.
Op-ed by incoming Sociology professor Sinikka Elliott
“Restricting what recipients of SNAP benefits eat won’t fix nutritional issues” re food stamps policy and nutrition, published by The Hill (with Sarah Bowen).
Research by incoming UBC Sociology professor, Sinikka Elliott, featured in Slate article
questioning the valorization of home-cooked meals.
MA Student Nicole Luongo receives full funding from Oxford’s Nuffield College and Oxford’s Clarendon Scholarship to continue research
Luongo’s research focuses on the relationship between eating and substance abuse disorders among homeless youth. She hopes this funding will help her to expand her research by allowing her to conduct an in-depth institutional ethnography of these phenomena in the UK and looks forward to exploring these issues in Vancouver in the future.
UBC Sociology Students Cecilia Federizon, Iman Ghosh & Elida Izani in Semi-Finals for the UBC-Western World’s Challenge Challenge 2017
Despite remarkable achievements for gender equality over the past century, it is still a challenge faced throughout the world. The team of three students (Cecilia, Iman and Elida) wanted to recognise that this challenge is not simply relegated to developing countries, but profoundly exists in Western contexts as well, and it is important to understand […]
Howard Ramos (Dalhousie) April 4th: “Racialization and Representation in Canadian Universities”
Despite years of Employment Equity policies and an increasingly racially diverse population, universities across Canada do not reflect the diversity of the broader population. Using Census data the extent of the gap of representation of racialized faculty is examined over time. Representation is probed further with an original survey of eight Canadian universities looking at […]