Contact
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts - Sociology Dept
- pbadawy@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Work and stratification; Job Qualities; Work-Family Life; Mental Health; Quantitative Methods; Research Methods
About
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. I completed my PhD at the University of Toronto in 2022. My research broadly focuses on work-family life, status inequality, and health. I am particularly interested in examining working conditions as social determinants of health and mental health, with a specific focus on how these dynamics change over time. One of my ongoing research projects draws on a longitudinal nationally-representative sample of Canadian workers to trace the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic altered the stress exposure in work-family life across social statuses and its impacts on workers’ health and well-being.
Courses
SOC 315 - Introduction to Social Methodology
Research design, data collection, and data processing strategies used by sociologists. Topics include research values and ethics, reliability and validity, experimentation, survey research techniques, historical methods, field research, and content analysis. Prerequisite: SOC 210 or consent of instructor.
SOC 363 - Sociology of Work and Industry
Sociological analysis of the changing nature and content of work, its diversity of industrial contexts and organizational forms, and its consequences for individuals and society, from Canadian and comparative perspectives. Prerequisite: SOC 100. Not open to students with credit in SOC 366.
SOC 403 - Individual Study
Individual study opportunity on topics for which no specific course is currently offered by the Department. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor and the Undergraduate Advisor.