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PhD candidate Manlin Cai receives 2024 Canadian Population Society Student Paper Award

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 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.”

Prof. Lindsey Richardson and PhD student Alyy Patel receive 2024 awards from the Canadian Sociological Association

Prof. Richardson was honoured with the Angus Reid Applied Sociology Award, while graduate student Alyy Patel won the Best Student Paper Award.

Gabrielle Abando investigates spatial mechanisms of immigrant enclaves in her honours thesis

Gabrielle Abando investigates spatial mechanisms of immigrant enclaves in her honours thesis

Through a case study of Vancouver’s Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood — a hub for Filipino Vancouverites — Gabrielle examines how immigrant enclaves cultivate well-connected and integrated immigrant communities.

2024 Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference Winners

2024 Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference!

Community partnership with Urban Ethnographic Field School receives award from Community-University Engagement Support Fund

Community partnership with Urban Ethnographic Field School receives award from Community-University Engagement Support Fund

Recipes from the Neighbourhood House: Celebrating Food Heritages of the Downtown Eastside, a community partnership project co-coordinated by UBC Sociology Professor Kerry Greer, has recently been announced as a recipient of the Community-University Engagement Support (CUES) Fund.

PhD Candidate Tori Yang receives the Migration and Mobilities Best Graduate Student Paper Award

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.”

PhD student Sophie Liu granted $30,000 award from UBC’s PhD CoLab program

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

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.

Honours student Yeslie Lizarraga explores the evolution of identity for Mexican youth living abroad

Honours student Yeslie Lizarraga explores the evolution of identity for Mexican youth living abroad

Lizarraga’s research situates and explores colonial hegemony in the evolution of contemporary Mexican identity as understood by Mexican youth living abroad.