Prof. Xiaojun Li receives funding for investigation of global supply chains in a post-pandemic world
How do global supply chains adapt to a global pandemic when raw materials, parts, components, and services cross national borders multiple times before final products are sold on world markets?
Genevieve Bates joining our department as Assistant Professor in International Relations
Genevieve Bates’ research specializes in transitional justice and the international and domestic politics of accountability for human rights violations.
UBC Political Science alumna Dr. Afsoun Afsahi returns to department as Professor
We are thrilled to announce that UBC Political Science alumna Dr. Afsoun Afsahi will be returning the department as our Assistant Professor position in Political Theory.
Alumna Edana Beauvais hired as an assistant professor at SFU
UBC Political Science graduate Edana Beauvais was recently welcomed as a new assistant professor at the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on racial & settler-colonial politics, gender & politics, and political communication & democratic innovation.
Grace Lore on her journey from UBC Political Science to the BC Legislature
UBC Political Science alumna Grace Lore plans to leverage her expertise and passion for gender equity and intersectional feminism to tackle her mandate as a BC NDP MLA and the parliamentary secretary on gender equity.
Scope Conditions podcast Episode 7: How Strong Legislatures Emerge with Ken Opalo
Ken Opalo talks with Alan Jacobs and Yang Yang Zhou about how strong legislatures emerge and what causes strong legislatures to emerge. Opalo’s latest book centres on the comparison of Kenya and Zambia — two countries that democratized in the early 1990s, shifting from single-party to multi-party rule.
Prof. Kathryn Harrison writes about the first “credible” federal climate plan in Canada for The Conversation
For the first time, a Canadian government is being honest about what it will take to meet our 2030 target and begin the transition to net-zero emissions.
Prof. Antje Ellermann steps up as head of the newly announced UBC Centre for Migration Studies
UBC Political Science Professor Antje Ellermann is the head of the newly announced UBC Centre for Migration Studies that will support innovative migration research, knowledge mobilization and teaching and learning at UBC and internationally.
Prof. Emeritus Richard Johnston spoke to CBC about the possibility of the US creating an agency like Elections Canada
Richard Johnston, professor emeritus at UBC Political Science, said creating a national agency like Elections Canada to oversee the administration of U.S. presidential elections would ensure uniform voting rules across the country.
Fourth-year student Yoojung Lee’s pandemic research journey
Fourth-year student Yoojung Lee has spent the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic working on a formal research project about democratic health communications in South Korea.