UBC Students visit City Hall to meet with Vancouver Mayor
UBC Students visited Vancouver’s City Hall to meet with Mayor, Kennedy Stewart. They were given a tour and an opportunity to have a Q&A with the mayor himself.
Undergrad. Student Vahid Rashidi publishes an article in the The International Journal of Sport and Society
“Tractor Sazi FC and the Civil Rights Movement of Turks in Iranian Azerbaijan” Abstract: The Tractor Sazi football club was founded in 1970 in Tabriz, the largest city of Iranian Azerbaijan, in which the majority of Iran’s ethnic Turkish population is concentrated. In the past few years, after it excelled to the level of Iranian […]
PhD Student Kaitlyn Jaffe receives the Arts Graduate Research Award
The Faculty of Arts Research Awards are to assist graduate students (PhD and Masters) based in the Faculty in research directly associated with their degree program.
Undergrad. Kennedy Wong receives the Pacific Sociological Association Undergraduate Student Paper Award
The Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award recognizes an undergraduate student or students for a paper of high professional quality.
Engage Sociology Newsletter: February Events and Opportunities
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Undergrad. Student, Veronica Cho, has been awarded two prestigious awards from UBC
Veronica Cho has been selected as a Wesbrook Scholar and is the recipient of the HSBC Emerging Leader Scholarship.
PhD Student Jennifer Adkins was awarded the Public Scholar’s Initiative (PSI) Award
Inaugurated in 2015, the UBC Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) is designed to support UBC doctoral students as they strive for purposeful social contribution, produce new and creative forms of scholarship and dissertations, and explore diverse career pathways. With the PSI, UBC seeks to assist PhD students as they rise to address complex challenges in new, […]
Undergrad. Kennedy Wong receives Faces of Today Award at Student Leadership Conference
Kennedy has been conducting research on homelessness for three years, he also co-founded a community action to redistribute the leftover food from campus to the homeless community.
Hugh Knapp, BA (Honours) Sociology, Minor in Environment and Society
Hugh Knapp is a full-time design researcher at IBM. Sociology helps him observe the environment, relationships, and interfaces around him that inform his design practices in a more human way.
PhD. Student Adam Vanzella-Yang featured in the Conversation.
Along with Allard Prof. Erez Aloni, they both explore how laws that consider live-in couples to be married may be well-intentioned, but erode free choice and put pressure on relationships.