Sylvia Fuller is a Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses primarily on understanding how entrenched patterns of inequality in the labour market develop and erode, and in the implications of changing employment relations for workers’ prospects for security and mobility.

Dr. Fuller has published extensively on the relationship between gender, parental status, and labour market inequalities in top Sociology journals including The American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Gender and Society, Journal of Marriage and Family, Work and Occupations, and Work, Employment and Society. She has also published research on temporary workers’ employment and wage trajectories, factors shaping the career pathways of new immigrants, and the impact of welfare reforms on lone mothers, among other topics. She is currently collaborating on a multi-partner project on Canadian work-family policies that includes research on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on employment gaps between mothers and fathers. Her research on this topic has been published in the journals Canadian Public Policy and Gender and Society.

Dr. Fuller has received numerous academic honours and prizes including the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada’s Aurora Prize, which recognizes “an outstanding new scholar who is building a reputation for exciting and original research in the social sciences or humanities”. More recently, she was awarded the 2016 best article prize by the Canadian Sociological Association, and was nominated for the 2018 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family research.

Dr. Fuller is the Academic Director of the British Columbia Inter-University Research Data Centres. The BCIRDC operates a network of secure labs that facilitate academic and community researchers’ access to the most sensitive Statistics Canada data. It is part of the Canadian Research Data Centres Network (CRDCN), a partnership between Statistics Canada and a consortium of Canadian Universities. 

Work and Labour, Inequality, Gender, Social Policy

For an up-to-date list of publications, see google scholar profile

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