Research

View our Fall 2018 newsletter

View our Fall 2018 newsletter

Our Fall 2018 issue of ‘ThinkSociology’ is now available online! Learn about exciting things happening within our department and read articles from profs. Sinikka Elliott, Sean Lauer, Neil Guppy, and Francesco Duina.

Users of home DNA tests ‘cherry pick’ results based on race biases, study says
More Motherhood, Fewer Freedoms in China?

UBC graduate students published an essay in The Conversation.

Ryan Stillwagon, Adriana Brodyn, and Kyle Sutherland team up with their supervisor Prof. Amin Ghaziani to discuss the emergence of “queer pop-ups” in Western Canada.

Prof. Yue Qian wrote an op-ed for The Conversation

talking about the link between educational success and the chances of getting married.

Prof. David Tindall published an op-ed in The Conversation

talking about a ruling in the Federal Court of Appeal involving the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Professor Wendy Roth writes op-ed for The Conversation

Professor Roth discusses genetic ancestry testing and how some test users ‘cherry-pick’ their results.