Congratulations to MA students Daniel Hwang and Isaac Tetreault on receiving funding from the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s (CGS M) program for their research!
Daniel Hwang
The CGS M program provides financial support to high-calibre scholars who are engaged in an eligible master’s program in Canada to allow these scholars to concentrate more fully on their studies in their chosen fields. The program supports up to 3,000 students annually in all disciplines.
Both students joined UBC Sociology’s master’s program this past September. Daniel’s previous research explored how year of arrival influences the labor market outcomes of immigrants in Canada. His research under the CGSM program is forthcoming!
Isaac Tetreault
Isaac is studying under the supervision of Associate Professor Emily Huddart. His areas of interest are the social dimensions of climate change, such as how individual’s climate opinions are formed, maintained and changed by group dynamics.
The CGSM funding will support Isaac’s research for his master’s thesis. His thesis is an ethnography of B.C. wildfire fighters that will bridge environmental, cultural, and organizational sub fields of sociology into a conversation about how meanings of risk and climate change are created and mediated. This summer, Isaac will be working on a wildfire crew collecting data through participant observation and interviews with crew members.
