Sociology Grad Student Xueqing Zhang Writes on Why East-Asian International Students Stay Quiet in Class
The number of international students continues to climb at Canadian universities. In 2018, Canada recorded 435,415 international students enrolled at all postsecondary education levels, an 18-percent jump from the previous year. The University of British Columbia, where I study, has 16,000 international students, comprising 26 percent of undergraduates and 36 percent of graduate students. East-Asian students (i.e., students from China, Japan and South Korea) make up […]
UBC Sociology hosts visit day for incoming students
UBC Sociology welcomed our newly-admitted graduate students at our 2020 Visit Day on March 9.
Ph.D. Candidate Adriana Bordyn Receives Top Cited Article Award of 2018-19 from Wiley Publishing
Congratulations Adriana Bordyn, a Ph.D. student at the UBC Department of Sociology, who has recently received the top cited article award for her paper “Performative Progressiveness: Accounting for New Forms of Inequality in the Gayborhood” (Co-Authored with Prof. Amin Ghaziani). Performative Progressiveness looks at the co-occurrence of progressive mindsets and homonegative actions among straight residents […]
Ph.D. Candidate Max Chewinski Admitted to Public Scholars Initiative
UBC’s groundbreaking Public Scholars Initiative has launched its fifth year on September 26, 2019 with a new cohort of 34 students! Starting its fifth year, UBC’s award-winning scholarship program continues to encourage and support doctoral students from all disciplines across UBC who wish to undertake impactful dissertation research and/or knowledge mobilization that engages partners from outside the academy or who hold […]
Ph.d. Student, Kyle Sutherland, Publishes Article on Transgender Inclusion in Gay-Straight Alliance Clubs in Sociology Compass
Gay–straight alliance (or gender‐sexuality alliance; GSA) is a high‐school based club aimed at providing a safer environment for sexual and gender minority youth as well as their straight allies. Yet, as a club historically rooted in addressing sexual orientation‐related concerns, less attention has been given to understanding the changing relational dynamics of internal GSA activities […]
Queer Pop-Ups: A Cultural Innovation in Urban Life
PhD student Ryan Stillwagon, with his advisor Prof. Amin Ghaziani, publishes his research about temporary spaces in City & Community, the official journal of the Community and Urban Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.
PhD. Students D. Kyle Sutherland and Adam Vanzella Yang receive 2019 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
PhD. Students D. Kyle Sutherland and Adam Vanzella Yang are the recipients of the 2019 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.
Sojourners release Volume 11 of their Publication
Sojourners, North America’s first undergraduate, peer and faculty-reviewed Sociology publication, releases volume 11 of their journal.
PhD Student Ryan Stillwagon finds Sexual Health Equity can be Accelerated through Sex-positive and Community-based Approaches
New study shows PrEP4Love campaign reaches millions of individuals to build awareness about vital HIV-prevention tool.
Incoming MA Student, Siqi Xiao, is a finalists in the SSHRC’s 2019 Storytellers challenge
Sociology Student, Siqi Xiao, is among the 25 finalists of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)’s 2019 Storytellers challenge.