PhD candidate Yijia Zhang wins AoIR’s 2024 Student Paper Award
Her paper, “Beyond Platform Control: Gendered Frictions in Food Delivery Work,” examined the controls facing women working as food delivery workers in China.
Welcome to our new graduate students for 2024W
UBC Sociology is excited to welcome our incoming 2024W graduate student cohort! We are excited for the new perspectives and research they bring to our community.
Can a just transition achieve decarbonization? PhD student Parker Muzzerall examines fossil fuel community opposition
UBC Sociology PhD student Parker Muzzerall recently published his first sole-authored paper. He uses interviews with oil and gas workers to reframe decarbonization as an issue of ontological security.
Can a just transition achieve decarbonization? PhD student Parker Muzzerall investigates in his first sole-authored paper
Muzzerall shows how those living and working in the Oil Sands remain skeptical of renewable energy, optimistic about the long-term viability of fossil fuels, and strongly oppose the proposal for a just transition.
PhD candidate Tori Yang awarded Fox International Fellowship at Yale University for 2024-25
Tori will join Yale as a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
UBC Sociology professor and graduate students receive 2024 awards from the Canadian Sociological Association
Professor Lindsey Richardson and graduate students Sonali Patel, Tori Yang and Manlin Cai were all honoured with awards for their research.
Professor Andrew Jorgenson and graduate student co-authors examine carbon intensity of human well-being in Canadian provinces
Prof. Jorgenson, along with graduate research assistants Taekyong Goh, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, Mark Shakespear, Nicolas Viens & Grace Gletsu, examines the effect of economic growth and income inequality on the carbon intensity of human well-being.
PhD student Sonali (Alyy) Patel theorizes a denial reaction to coming out in her new paper
In Sociology Compass, Patel uses data from qualitative interviews with queer South Asian women in Canada to propose revisions of Goffman’s Stigma theory.
PhD candidate Manlin Cai receives 2024 Canadian Population Society Student Paper Award
Manlin was awarded for her working paper, “Workplace Authority in China: Gender, Parenthood, and Work Sectors.”
PhD candidate Tori Yang receives CSA’s Sociology of Migration Cluster Best Student Paper Award
PhD candidate Tori Yang receives the Canadian Sociological Association award for her paper, “Gendering Queer Migration: Evidence from Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants.”