I am an emeritus professor in Sociology.  I am currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled “Canada’s Ongoing Gender Equity Revolution.”

In 2016, I was recognized with an Outstanding Contribution Award from the Canadian Sociological Association. At the same time, an article I co-authored with Nicole Luongo, written when she was a UBC undergraduate, won the Association’s Outstanding Paper Award: “The Rise and Stall of Canada’s Gender-equity Revolution” Canadian Review of Sociology, 2015 (an award shared with colleagues Sylvia Fuller and Natasha Stecy-Hilderbrant for a separate paper they wrote). At UBC I received both a Killam Teaching Prize and a Killam Research Prize.

Currently I am working on four projects:

1. Canada’s Ongoing Gender Equity Revolution: a project mapping the historical transformation in the roles of women and men in Canadian society, including changes in family life, the economy, education, law and politics, and the social policies related to both progress and persistence in gender equity.
2. Changing Fields of Study by Gender in Canada: 1990 to 2023.  Using data from Statistics Canada I am examining how segregation by field of study has changed over the last three decades in Canada. A particular focus is upon how both STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and HEAL (health, education, administration, and literacy) fields have evolved recently.
3. Cultural Patterns in the Given Names of Canadians: a project examining changes in the names parents give to their children, using data from British Columbia and Ontario between 1924 and 2023.
4. Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Post-Pandemic: an assessment of the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic on teaching and learning in higher education, with special attention to educational technology adoption, learning progress, assessment and standards changes, and student supports.

In the Pipeline

Canada’s Ongoing Gender Equity Revolution: An Analytic History, manuscript under review

“Gender Segregation in Care and Technology Fields in Canada” (with M. Balzarini, K. Lyons, and M. Kolpashnikova) – under review

“Understanding the STEM acronym: history, usage, and policy” (with M. Balzarini, K. Lyons, and M. Kolpashnikova) – under review

“Predicting the Total Fertility Rate from Parent’s Conscious Calculation of the names they give their Children” (with M. Kolpashnikova)

“Naming Canada’s Children: British Columbia (1924-2023), Ontario (1924-2023) and Canada (1991-2023)” (with M. Kolpashnikova)

“Teaching and Learning in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic” with K. Lyon and D. Verpoorten, working paper.

Recently Published

Guppy, Neil (2025) “Wealth Inequality” in G. Ritzer and C. Rojek (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons.

Guppy, Neil (2023) “Public Sociology” in G. Ritzer and C. Rojek (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2^nd edition, John Wiley & Sons.

Guppy, Neil (2023) “Income Inequality and Income Mobility” in G. Ritzer and C. Rojek (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2^nd edition, John Wiley & Sons.

Guppy, Neil, Silvia Bartolic, and 7 others (2023) “Student Confidence in Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Helped and What Hindered?” Higher Education Research and Development 42:4, 845-859.

Bartolic, Silvia, Neil Guppy and 13 others (2022) “Student vulnerabilities and confidence in learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic” Studies in Higher Education, 47(12): 2460-72.

Guppy, Neil, Dominique Verpoorten, David Boud, Lin Lin, Joanna Tai, and Silvia Bartolic (2022) “The post-COVID-19 future of digital learning in higher education: Views from educators, students, and other professionals in six countries.” British Journal of Educational Technology 53(6): 1750-1765.

Guppy, Neil, Larissa Sakumoto, and Rima Wilkes (2022) “Changing Gender Time Distributions in Domestic Duties: 1986 to 2015” in E. Grabb, J. Reitz, and M. Hwang (Eds.) Social Inequality in Canada: Dimensions of Disadvantage, Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press, pp. 196-205.

Guppy, Neil, Silvia Bartolic, and 10 others (2022) “Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage” Higher Education 84(3): 487-504

Verpoorten, Dominique, Neil Guppy, Silvia Bartolic, and 6 others (2022) “’BasCulement vers le virtuel’ – Constantes et Variations Dans la Mise en œuvre par 50 enseignants” Spirale – Revue de Recherches en Éducation 69: 163-177.

Bartolic, Silvia, Neil Guppy, and 16 others (2022) “A multi-institutional assessment of changes in higher education teaching and learning in the face of COVID-19,” Educational Review, 74(3): 517-533

Chow, Alex, and Neil Guppy (2021) “Intergenerational educational mobility over the past century in Canada” Canadian Review of Sociology 58(3): 372-98.

Guppy, Neil and Jennifer Vincent (2021) “The Evolution of Canadian Pay Equity Legislation and the Social Organization of Public Opinion” American Review of Canadian Studies 51(2): 312-29.