Congratulations to all our UBC Sociology members who have received awards from the Canadian Sociological Association this year!
Professor Lindsey Richardson received the Angus Reid Applied Sociology Award, which honours a sociologist’s contribution to sociological practice that has served as a model for working with a community, organization or public service.
The award celebrates work that has had a significant sociological perspective and, by so doing, has elevated the profession for Sociology as a whole.
In their commendation, the award adjudication committee wrote that Professor Richardson’s work is “a model for others in how to carry out public impact research in an ethical and valid way. Her approach to research in the community is based on obtaining community-based knowledge and to carry out appropriate research activities which culminates in the integration of the two.”
PhD student Sonali (Alyy) Patel was awarded Best Student Paper for her article titled “Re-theorizing the Sexual Minority Closet: Evidence from Queer South Asian Women.”
The paper investigates queer South Asian women’s (QSAW) experiences of the closet and offers a re-theorization of the closet as a dual site of safety and violence.
In awarding the paper, the committee noted the paper’s exploration of a crucial and timely topic through an intersectional lens as insightful and well contextualized for an unfamiliar reader.
Two of our PhD candidates also received Research Cluster Best Student Paper Awards.
Tori Yang was awarded by the Sociology of Migration Cluster for her paper, “Gendering Queer Migration: Evidence from Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants.”
Tori’s paper details the gendered effects of queer migration by disentangling gender from sexuality and the findings are drawn from in-depth interviews with 50 skilled Chinese LGBTQ+ migrants in the United States and Canada.
Manlin Cai‘s paper, “Workplace Authority in China: Gender, Parenthood, and Work Sectors,” was awarded by the Work, Professions, and Occupations Cluster.
The paper draws on data from the China Family Panel Studies to examine how gender and parenthood shape workplace authority in China and how these effects vary across work sectors.
