Janet Vertesi (Princeton) March 14: “The Social Life of Spacecraft: Social Organization and Technoscientific Work on NASA’s Robotic Spacecraft Teams”
How does social organization affect the conduct and practice of science? To explore this question, Vertesi presents empirical data from a comparative ethnographic study of work on two NASA robotic spacecraft mission teams. While the robots appear to be singular entities operating autonomously in the frontiers of space, decisions about what the robots should do […]
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (McGill) March 7: “Public-private balance of health care financing & provision: Assessing policy reforms and their impact on social inequalities in health”
Tues March 7, 11:00-12:30 (ANSO 134) Abstract: In past decades, growth in health spending exceeded that of the gross domestic product, leading governments (including Canada) to search for alternative financing structures, notably through increases in the share of private expenditures. Yet, we still know relatively little about the processes that led to these policy reforms, […]
Prof. Rima Wilkes on CBC Radio BC Almanac
talking about protests at Trump’s hotel in Vancouver
PhD student Cary Wu in the University Herald
for his research with Rima Wilkes on the meaning of home for international students
Killam Research Award Winners: Prof. Rima Wilkes and Prof. Wendy Roth
Profs. Wilkes and Roth have each received 2016 UBC Killam Research Awards. Prof. Roth received a Killam Research Fellowship (Junior Category) enabling her to pursue full-time research during a study leave, and Prof. Wilkes received a Killam Research Prize (Senior Category), recognizing her outstanding research and scholarly contributions. The awards will be presented at a […]
Prof. Nathan Lauster in Vancouver’s Metro News
On declining population and its relationship to housing in parts of Vancouver
Prof. Rima Wilkes appears in Huffington Post, Vancouver Sun
discussing racism in Canada in the aftermath of Trump’s inauguration