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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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 student Alyy Patel writes about the conflicting demands queer South Asian women experience from both ethnic and LGBTQ communities in The Ubyssey
Working from Prof. Amin Ghaziani’s class in advanced qualitative data analysis and professional writing, PhD student Alyy Patel authored an op-ed about the conflicting demands experienced by queer South Asian women from ethnic and LGBTQ communities