Five Arts professors receive UBC Faculty Research Awards
Five scholars from the Faculty of Arts have won 2019 Faculty Research Awards. Winners of these awards were selected by UBC’s Faculty Research Award Committee, which spans arts and humanities, business, education, applied science, science and medicine. Each spring, the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation hosts an awards reception to recognize outstanding UBC researchers. This year […]
UBC psychology researchers awarded $3.6M in CIHR funding
UBC Psychology researchers have been awarded $3.6M for projects at the university and its affiliated health authority research centres through the Project Grant: Fall 2019 Competition from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). As CIHR’s largest funding program, the Project Grant competitions support multi-year grants for researchers at various stages in their careers as they conduct […]
Richard Johnston receives the 2019 Dean of Arts award
Congratulations to Richard Johnston (Professor, Political Science) who received the 2019 Dean of Arts Award.
Psychology prof Elizabeth Dunn talks to BBC about the science of giving good gifts
BBC quoted UBC psychology professor Elizabeth Dunn about gifting.
BBC
Do we really need that daily bath? UBC History prof Peter Ward dishes the dirt on history of hygiene
Peter Ward, a history professor at UBC, wrote a book about the history of personal hygiene in Europe and North America.
Postmedia via Montreal Gazette, Calgary Herald
UBC professor to debunk unwritten rules, behaviour of public transit riders
Daily Hive interviewed Amy Hanser, a sociology professor at UBC’s faculty of arts, about her ethnological research on bus riding behaviours.
Daily Hive
Sociologist studies the unwritten rules of riding the bus
In her new SSHRC-funded study: “The Public Bus as Urban Space” sociologist Amy Hanser is conducting an ethnography of bus riders to uncover how city dwellers interact with difference.
Can positive experiences buffer stress?
UBC’s Dr. Sin is conducting a three-year study to understand more about what kinds of positive experiences help people cope with stress and what impact this form of stress management has on long-term health outcomes.