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3 Minute Thesis
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges graduate students to present their thesis and its significance in just three minutes and one slide.
President's Dream Colloquium
The President's Dream Colloquium brings leading thinkers to SFU and provides an annual forum for intensive interdisciplinary exchange amongst faculty and students.
Your Career Compass
The Your Career Compass workshop series helps graduate students navigate their career options inside or outside of academia.
Book a 1:1 career coaching session to support your career exploration, job search, portfolio development, or future education plans. Coaches: Amrit Mundy, Career Education Specialist, and Deanne Esdale, Senior Career Educator, at Career and Volunteer Services, SFU.
Schedule your session today on myExperience*, SFU’s platform for career appointments, events, jobs, and volunteer opportunities.
*After logging in, you can find 1:1 Grad student career appointments under the Career/Appointment Calendar in the left-hand menu. Be sure to add your appointment to your calendar!
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Sign up for various micro-sessions online to pick and mix your way through (Re) Orientation week to build your own experience. Reconnect with key resources and supports, identify services that will help you thrive, build connections and network with your peers. Register and choose your sessions today!
Dates
September 28 - October 1
Location
SFU Burnaby Campus, Zoom
More Events for Grad Students
On Campus
- Being a (Queer) Academic in Precarious Times: A Series of Conversations
Fri. Oct. 16 | 9:30 - 11:00 am | SFU Research Commons: room 7200 | SFU Burnaby
The Queer Collective, hosted in collaboration with the Trans Equity Pod, are starting the conversation series . The first conversation focuses on graduate student interactions with supervisors. This session will be hosted by Dr. Taco Niet, a trans nonbinary faculty member in the SFU School of Sustainable Energy Engineering. Sign up to receive emails from the Queer Collective
Off Campus
- Research Project Management Training for Graduate Students & Postdocs
Online Event: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM (ET)
Ticket Price: $15.00 (no tax)
Apply by: Friday, September 25 via their Registration Website
This 90-minute webinar, developed by Dr. P. Alison Paprica, PhD, PMP, and offered through the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS), explains how to use three one-page project management tools to plan and manage research:
1. The work breakdown structure (WBS): a one-page tool to establish a common high-level understanding of research scope expressed in terms of deliverables.
2. The deliverable-based Gantt chart: a one-page tool to describe when and how the deliverables of the research will come together
3. The deliverable-based tracking sheet: a one-page tool to identify emerging risks and drive progress at a more granular level during the implementation phase of the research.
- 2026 THRIVE Summit For Graduate Students and Postdocs | Secrets to Success from Top Supervisors
Online Event: Wednesday October 14, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM (ET)
Ticket Price: $15.00
Register today: THRIVE Summit 2026
THRIVE is a national Summit hosted annually in a virtual format by roating Canadian universities dedicated to cultivating the knowledge, skills, and professional competencies essential for graduate students across disciplines, degree programs, and backgrounds to succeed in research, scholarship, leadership, and career development. Learn directly from graduate supervisors whose expertise spans research, practice, mentorship, and community.
Join us for an enriching and inspiring day of conversation about how to find success and prosperity on your graduate student journey.
**Certificates of attendance will be provided to all participants.**
Ongoing
- Indigenous Student Support; Jennifer Reandy is available for counselling support for Indigenous students from Tuesday to Friday.
- Thriving in your role as a TA/TM Online Course: gain resilience skills, identify boundaries in your role as a TA/TM helping students, and overview conditions for well-being in learning environments
- Instructional Skills Workshops (Various dates and deadlines for spring and summer)
- SFU Research Ethics Board runs weekly remote help sessions
- The Mentor Meet Program, available to entrepreneurs in the SFU Community, allows you to connect with mentors at all three SFU Campuses.
- Understanding and Coping with Anxiety and Depression Health & Counselling has a recorded/asynchronous version of their seminar about anxiety and depression. Download and print out the presentation slides and resources.