“Canada is a global carbon bomb,” Postdoctoral fellow Amy Janzwood tells Ricochet
Recent research shows Canada’s anticipated oil and gas production from 2021 to 2050 would exhaust about 16 per cent of the world’s remaining carbon budget. “Building new fossil fuel infrastructure, like this mega oil sands pipeline that locks in fossil fuel expansion, is wildly inconsistent with reducing our emissions,” Janzwood says.
SPPGA Welcomes Professor Maxwell A. Cameron – Q&A
The School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) welcomed Professor Maxwell A. Cameron to the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs as of July 1, 2021. Prof. Cameron (Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1989) is jointly appointed with SPPGA and Political Science at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Richard Price’s class Professional Skills in Political Science connects our students and alumni
Dr. Price’s returning course provides students with answers to how they can apply the skills they learned in Political Science and International Relations.
COVID-19 tensions emerge in Japan as people are asked to stay home while Olympic Games deemed essential
Japan has done quite well with COVID-19 so far because of the rapid adoption of health instructions. However, the Olympics presents a challenge for the Suga government, notes UBC Political Science Prof. Yves Tiberghien.
Prof. Antje Ellermann talks new book evaluating immigration policy choices
The Comparative Politics of Immigration explains why democratic governments adopt the immigration policies they do. Through an in-depth study of immigration politics in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States, UBC Political Science Professor Antje Ellermann examines the development of immigration policy from the postwar era to the present.
New PoliSci podcast showcases cutting-edge research in comparative politics
Political Science professors Alan Jacobs and Yang-Yang Zhou launched Scope Conditions, a new podcast featuring the cutting-edge research being done in comparative politics, which provides a virtual platform for academics to share their recent advances in the field.
“It’s night and day.” Prof. Kathryn Harrison on what a Biden presidency means for Canadian climate action
“It’s night and day within the U.S. to go from a president who rejects science and has been rolling back fairly modest measures to one that is promising 100 per cent clean electricity by 2035,” said Kathryn Harrison, a University of British Columbia political science professor who studies climate and energy policy.
Watch Prof. Paul Quirk’s conversation with Global News about the impact of Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis
UBC Political Science Professor Paul Quirk, who specializes in U.S. politics, looks at what the President’s COVID-19 diagnosis will mean for the election campaign.
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.
Canadians oppose emerging surveillance technologies says research by Prof. Carey Doberstein
Up-and-coming surveillance technologies designed to help employers monitor the productivity of staff are largely viewed by the public as unreasonable and intrusive, according to new UBC research by Carey Doberstein