UBC’s Cary Wu and Prof. Rima Wilkes co-author response article in Maclean’s
verifying that overall levels of trust are lower in Quebec than in the rest of Canada
Prof. Richard Carpiano in Vancouver Magazine
discussing how to make cities a healthy environment for people: “4 Surprising Ways Cities Keep You Healthy”
Undergraduate students in Professor Amin Ghaziani’s Sexualities class (Soci 369) publish an op-ed on all-gender washrooms.
The contemporary public debate surrounding transgender and gender non-binary individuals using washrooms is a highly contested point of public policy.
Research by Prof. Yue Qian featured in Global Times article
about the importance of “hukou” as a factor in Shanghai marriages
Prof. Nathan Lauster interviewed by CityLab
on laneway housing and secondary suites in Vancouver
Prof. Sean Lauer receives Angus Reid Applied Sociology Award, 2017
This award, presented by the Canadian Sociological Association, recognizes sociologists who undertake community action projects that bring social science knowledge, methods, and expertise to bear in addressing community-identified issues and concerns. This award celebrates a Sociologist’s contribution to sociological practice that has served as a model for working with a community, organization or public service. […]
Prof. Yue Qian’s recently published research on geographic constraints on marriage patterns in China in EurekAlert (AAAS) science news!
The research, co-authored with Zhenchao Qian and published in the Chinese Sociological Review, emphasizes the important and understudied relationship between birthplace, as recorded in China’s hukou system, education, and marriage choice.
Janet Vertesi (Princeton) Speaks at Kaspar Naegele Memorial Lecture (Photo)
Pictured left to right: Tom Kemple (former student of Naegele), Lindsey Richardson (Seminar Series co-chair), Bob Anderson (former student), Janet Vertesi (Speaker) and Adam Howe (introduced the speaker)
Prof. Wendy Roth Interviewed by The Source
about ways to lessen racial discrimination
Prof. Yue Qian awarded the Hampston Fund Research Grant
New Faculty Award at the University of British Columbia