Prof. Phyllis Johnson interviewed for The Space Exploration Podcast for her work about living conditions in space
You can hear her speak about the research project here. Read more about her work on Culture, Values, and Environmental Adaptation in Space (At Home in Space). (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1988.html)
Georgia Piggot wins Best Student Paper Award from the Environment Research Cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association for her work, “Getting to Zero: Organizational Responses to British Columbia’s Carbon Neutral Policy.”
The Canadian Sociological Association has awarded our grad student Georgia Piggot for her extraordinary research into carbon neutral policy. The paper consists of a section of her PhD thesis in progress. Congratulations for representing UBC Socioloy so well! She will be presenting her findings on Wednesday June 1st at the CSA annual conference. Read more
Prof. Anne Martin-Matthews hosting International Summer School on Ageing at UBC, June 5 -10
Twenty doctoral and post-doctoral students from Europe, Brazil, the USA and Canada will gather at UBC for the Third International Summer School on Ageing, jointly sponsored by the Department of Sociology, SSHRC, the UBC Hampton Research Endowment Fund, the Italian National Institute of Health & Science on Ageing and the Centre for Ageing and Supportive […]
Prof. Neil Guppy appointed as Senior Advisor to the Provosts on Academic Freedom
Neil Guppy has accepted the position of Senior Advisor to the Provosts on Academic Freedom at UBC. He is charged with leading a system-wide conversation concerning the centrality of academic freedom to our various missions, and to developing educational materials for the university community in the support and protection of academic freedom. View full announcement.
Grad Student Lily Ivanova awarded Yale-UBC Fox International Fellowship
Graduate student Lily Ivanova awarded Yale-UBC Fox International Fellowship to support her work on representations of genocide, while spending a year abroad at Yale University. View article written by the UBC Liu Institute: “Liu Scholars Honoured as Yale-UBC Fox Fellows“
Grad Student Max Chewinski wins CSA Best Paper Award
Graduate student Max Chewinski wins best student paper award from the Political Sociology and Social Movements Research Cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association for his work, “Knots that Strain & Threads That Bind: NGO-Grassroots Dynamics in the Movement Web Challenging Canadian Resource Extractivism”.
Prof. Renisa Mawani re Komagata Maru in the Globe and Mail and UBC News
In 1914, Canada turned away a ship carrying hundreds of South Asia immigrants, leaving a bitter legacy for decades… View Prof. Mawani’s Globe and Mail opinion piece: “The legacy of the Komagata Maru”. View Prof. Mawani’s expert comments on UBC News: “UBC expert comments on Prime Minister Trudeau’s formal apology for Komagata Maru incident”
CRS Best Article Award: Sylvia Fuller, Neil Guppy, Nicole Luongo, Natasha Stecy-Hildebrandt
Two Faculty members, Neil Guppy and Sylvia Fuller, together with their co/writers, grad students Nicole Luongo and Natasha Stecy-Hildebrandt, have been selected as co-winners of the Canadian Review of Sociology Best Article Award, for 2014. Neil Guppy and Nicole Luongo for their article, “The Rise and Stall of the Gender Equity Revolution in Canada.” Sylvia […]
Sociology Graduate Student Justin Kong in New Canadian Media
with contributions from Rima Wilkes, Francois Lachappelle, and Thomas Kemple “Why American Profs Stream North” While many Americans may be declaring their intent to immigrate to Canada if Donald Trump becomes President, this migratory trend towards the north is not a new phenomenon. Historically, everyone from runaway slaves to draft dodgers and individuals of the […]