Congratulations to CMS affiliate Lydia Laflamme on receiving the Killam Doctoral Scholarship at the University of British Columbia.
Awarded to outstanding doctoral students, the scholarship is one of the most competitive graduate awards at UBC. It provides $40,000 per year for two years, supporting exceptional doctoral research and academic achievement.
Lydia’s research project, Navigating integration: How policy restrictiveness affects newcomers’ sense of belonging and motivation, examines how integration policies influence both the lived experiences and political behaviour of newcomers in Canada. Her work will be conducted through the Behavioural Public Policy Lab. By exploring how policy environments shape feelings of belonging and engagement, Lydia’s research aims to contribute new insights to debates on immigration policy and integration.
Lydia Laflamme is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Her research sits at the intersection of political behaviour, public policy, and social psychology. She focuses on integration policies in Canada, as well as immigration attitudes and how they relate to perceptions of cultural threat.
Lydia is part of the 2025–26 Graduate Certificate in Migration Studies student cohort and collaborates with Dr. Vince Hopkins on the Bridging Divides project, Individual and Structural Barriers to Citizenship Acquisition.
