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PhD student Erica Mildner investigates the gender divide in family welfare policy knowledge in sole-authored paper

PhD student Erica Mildner investigates the gender divide in family welfare policy knowledge in sole-authored paper

“What do prospective parents know about family welfare incentives?” UBC Sociology PhD student Erica Mildner recently published a sole-authored paper in Community, Work & Family investigating this question in the contexts of the United States and Hungary.

Honours student Teodora Rawsthorne Eckmyn examines “commoning” through community-based arts practices

Honours student Teodora Rawsthorne Eckmyn examines “commoning” through community-based arts practices

Teodora Rawsthorne Eckmyn is a fourth year Sociology major. Her research interests lie in the areas of cultural and urban sociology, to which she seeks to apply a critical intersectional lens.

Discover how Dr. Katherine Lyon applies an experiential learning activity in her Global Pandemics course

Discover how Dr. Katherine Lyon applies an experiential learning activity in her Global Pandemics course

Professor Katherine Lyon applies an experiential learning activity in her Global Pandemics course by having teams of students interview non-profit organizations that work with disaster-affected groups.

Welcome to our new graduate students | 2023W

Welcome to our new graduate students | 2023W

UBC Sociology is excited to welcome our incoming cohort of doctoral and master’s students to the department! With a wide range of focuses from gender and sexuality to transnationalism to environmental sociology, we look forward to seeing what new perspectives and research they will bring to our community. Minheng Chen PhD Student Minheng’s research area […]

Honours student Liva Bahji conceptualizes the “sisterhood wound” in her thesis

Honours student Liva Bahji conceptualizes the “sisterhood wound” in her thesis

Liva Bahijj’s thesis “Unsmothering Girlhood: The Geometry of the Sisterhood Wound” offers a sociological approach to the degenerative and often default emotional dynamics between women.

PhD student Colter Uscola wins Best Graduate Student Paper award from the American Sociology Association

PhD student Colter Uscola wins Best Graduate Student Paper award from the American Sociology Association

Colter Uscola’s paper, “Drinker Identity Development: Shame, Pride and a Thirst to Belong,” discusses how marginalized identities form, aiming to challenge current theoretical assumptions that dominate intervention strategies and recovery policy. We talked to him about his work on this article.

PhD student Yasmin Koop-Monteiro presents her paper published in Environmental Sociology

PhD student Yasmin Koop-Monteiro presents her paper published in Environmental Sociology

UBC Sociology PhD student Yasmin Koop-Monteiro recently published a paper titled, “Animals and climate change: A visual and discourse network analysis of Instagram posts” in Environmental Sociology with UBC Sociology Prof. David Tindall. 

Meet our Sociology Faculty!

Meet our Sociology Faculty!

Welcome to UBC Sociology where we do transformational teaching, impactful research and engage with our community and the world.

Celebrating Professor Gillian Creese’s career and retirement

Celebrating Professor Gillian Creese’s career and retirement

UBC Sociology celebrates the retirement of Dr. Gillian Creese, who has been a member of our UBC community and the departments of Sociology and GRSJ for over 35 years.

CIEDAR and UBC Health co-present “Hearing Indigenous Voices During the COVID-19 Pandemic” dialogue session

CIEDAR and UBC Health co-present “Hearing Indigenous Voices During the COVID-19 Pandemic” dialogue session

CIEDAR & UBC Health co-presented, “Hearing Indigenous Voices During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” last week with UBC Sociology Professor Kimberly Huyser organizing the event. The hybrid dialogue sessions discussed lessons learned about conducting research and Indigenous resilience during the pandemic with researchers based in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand.