2024 Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference!
Prof. Andrew Jorgenson reflects on the history and trajectory of sociology and the climate crisis
In a new article for Sociological Forum titled “Sociology and the climate crisis: A momentum surge and the roots run deep,” Prof. Jorgenson reflects on the history of the discipline and the trajectory of work to come on the climate crisis.
PhD Candidate Tori Yang receives the Migration and Mobilities Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Tori Shucheng Yang receives the Migration & Mobilities Best Graduate Student Paper Award with her paper titled “Rethinking Queer Migration: The Case of Skilled Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants in North America.”
Prof. Aryan Karimi’s new paper examines how refugee backgrounds impact transnationalism
Prof. Aryan Karimi’s new paper, “National Assimilation and/or Cosmopolitan Transnationalism? Impending Transnationalism among the Upwardly Mobile Children of Refugees,” examines how refugee background push transnationalism into the future for second-generation Somali-Canadians.
PhD student Sophie Liu granted $30,000 award from UBC’s PhD CoLab program
UBC Sociology doctoral student Sophie Liu, with doctoral student Kaitlyn Cumming from the Allard School of Law, is spearheading a project that has recently been awarded funding through the PhD CoLab program.
Krisha Mistry explores how women navigate the motherhood identity with chronic illness in her honours thesis
Her research project, “Mommy Issues: Exploring the Intersections Between Motherhood and Womanhood Amidst Chronic Illness,” explores how women understand their identities within the context of the motherhood identity—and how they understand themselves while coping with a chronic illness.
Lillie Goodson explores how LGTBQ+ people negotiate their identities in the outdoors
Honours student Lillie Goodson is a fourth-year student working under the supervision of Tony Silva. Her research project, “Out in the Outdoors,” uses qualitative methods to explore how LGBTQ+ people negotiate their LGBTQ+ identities while participating in outdoor activities and communities.
PhD candidate Umay Kader discusses her research on the realities of living at home for young adults in the Georgia Straight
How are young adults navigating multigenerational living arrangements — particularly when it comes to dating?
Prof. Ethan Raker investigates how disaster aid programs engender racial and socioeconomic inequalities in new paper
Prof. Raker investigates how racial and socioeconomic disparities emerge through the process of applying for and receiving individual disaster assistance in a new study.
Prof. Yue Qian talks gender, family, quantitative research & intersectionality in a feature for the Gender+ in Research Collective
This feature is the first in the Gender+ Scholar Spotlight Series, which aims to feature UBC faculty working with an intersectional and gendered lens in a variety of ways.