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Exploring Empowerment and Agency with Digital Storytelling

In fall 2022, I began my first quarter at UCSF as a sociology doctoral student.

Unconference Recap

On April 22, 2024, the UCSF Emancipatory Sciences Lab held its first annual unconference, “Creating Resistance: Art, Activism, & Academia in the Emancipatory Sciences.” The day-long, hybrid event brought faculty, staff, and students together to discuss and imagine strategies for engaging...

Routledge Aging and Society Book Series: Meet the Authors

The Routledge Aging and Society Book Series held its first "Meet the Authors" webinar on March 19. The webinar featured: 

Lessons About Life, Love, and Learning

I've always known that life can change instantly, and it did. A year ago today, my heart shattered into countless jagged pieces when my beloved mother, Emily Hoang Nguyen, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. We enjoyed a morning chat; she was in San Francisco, CA, and I was in San Antonio, TX....

ESLab Goes to the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Conference 2023!

Reception Join us at the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting for the UCSF Emancipatory Sciences Lab and Routledge Aging & Society Book Series Reception! The Reception is taking place at the Tampa Marriott Water Street, Meeting Room 1 at 6pm ET. Be sure to arrive early for the FREE book raffle at 6:...

American Sociological Association UCSF Research Showcase 2023

This blog post features the research by current students and faculty at UCSF in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department showcased at the upcoming American Sociological Association 2023 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

End of Life Care Through a Social Justice Lens

In the early months of 2016, I was driving back and forth from Los Angeles to Orange County every weekend to steal an evening by my mother’s bedside from the hold my undergraduate schedule had on me. Rendered bedbound by her advanced frontotemporal demetia, she consistently greeted me with a...

Looking Up: Imagining Tangible Futures and Active Academia

Looking up is often a difficult task, particularly in graduate school. While the inevitable questions at holiday parties of “What do you want to do when you’re done?” impart their reliable dose of existential dread, taking classes and writing a dissertation make it easy to keep your head down.

Nursing Home Residents, Transfer Trauma or Relocation Stress Syndrome

We know that moving, even if it is a positive choice, can be a cause of stress and even depression and grief for any person. When symptoms like these exist, it may be referred to as transfer trauma or relocation stress syndrome (RSS).

Honoring Judy Heumann, Disability Rights Activist (1947-2023)

It is with heavy hearts that we learn of the passing of Judith "Judy" Heumann -- widely regarded as "the mother" of the disability rights movement.