On September 8, 2023, Drs. Ajay Parasram and Alex Khasnabish will host a sdiscussion just for FCAT as part of our new Community in Practice initiative to respond to and demonstrate our commitments to decolonization, Indigenization, truth and reconciliation, and the wide range of issues within the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) compass.

Many outstanding documentaries and short films by Indigenous filmmakers from across Canada were featured in this year’s 5th Annual Skoden Indigenous Film Festival. These films, split into five programs across the two-days of the festival were all in competition to take home three major awards: Audience-Choice, The Trickster Award, and Best Film.

According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), it is projected that the amount of plastic that seeps into aquatic ecosystems will hit 23-37 million tonnes by the year 2040—more than doubling the 9-14 million tonnes in 2016. To help solve this massive challenge, Simon Fraser University professors Katherine Reilly and Gillian Russell tasked a group of students at Centre for Digital Media’s (CDM) Master of Digital Media (MDM) program to tackle this wicked problem.

SFU's Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) is focused on extending community-engaged research to provincial, national and international communities. Our aim is to act as an infrastructure that advocates for community-engaged research rooted in values of reciprocity, collaboration, equity, justice, and social transformation.