Research Centres
The following Centres were established under SFU Policy R40.01 and are under the direct authority of the Faculty Dean.
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies
- Centre d'etudes francophones Québec-Pacifique
- Centre for Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures
- Centre for Forensic Research
- Centre for Global Political Economy
- Centre for Public Policy Research
- Centre for Research on Adaptive Behaviour in Economics (CRABE)
- Centre for Research on Sexual Violence
- Centre for Restorative Justice
- Centre for Scottish Studies
- Centre for the Reduction of Violence Among Children and Youth
- Centre for the Study of Public Opinion and Political Representation
- Criminology Research Centre
- David See-Chai Lam Centre for International Communication
- Feminist Institute for Studies on Law and Society
- First Nations Language Centre
- Gerontology Research Centre
- Institute for Studies in Criminal Justice Policy
- Institute for the Humanities
- Institute of Governance Studies
- Mental Health, Law and Policy Institute
- Morgan Centre for Labour Studies
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies
Faculty of Business Administration
- CIBC Centre for Corporate Governance and Risk Management
- CMA Centre for Strategic Change and Performance Measurement
- Centre for Global Workforce Strategy
- Centre for Studies in Global Asset and Wealth Management
- Centre for Workplace Health and Safety
- Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Studies
Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
- Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology
- Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities
Faculty of Education
- Centre for Education, Law and Society
- Centre for Research on International Education
- Centre for the Study of Educational Leadership and Policy
- David Wheeler Institute for Research in Mathematics Education
- Institute for Research on Early Education and Child Health
- Institute for Studies in Teacher Education
Faculty of Environment
- Centre for Coastal Science and Management
- Centre for Sustainable Community Development
- Centre for Tourism Policy and Research
- Cooperative Resource Management Institute
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Science
- Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics
- Centre for Natural Hazards Research
- Centre for Wildlife Ecology
- Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology Research Group
Research Institutes
The following Institutes which have university-wide mandate or a multi-university consortium were established under SFU Policy R40.01 and are under the direct authority of the Vice-President, Research.
- 4D LABS
- Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute
- Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing
- Centre for Disability Independence Research and Education
- Centre for Education Research and Policy (CERP)
- Centre for Imaginative Education (see Imaginative Education Research Group below)
- Centre for Operations Research and Decision Sciences (CORDS)
- Centre for Scientific Computing
- Centre for Studies in Print and Media Cultures
- Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities and Mental Health
- Indigenous Research Centre
- Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies
- Institute for Environmental Learning
- Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy
- Institute for Values in Policy and Science (VIPS)
- Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences (IRMACS)
- International Centre for Criminal Law Reform & Criminal Justice Policy
- International Centre of Art for Social Change
- International Cybercrime Research Centre (ICRC)
- Nanomed Canada Research Network
- Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)
- TRIUMF
- Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics (VIVA)
- Western Canadian Universities Marine Sciences Society (Bamfield)
In addition to the above, the following research initiatives are associated with the University.
- 7th Floor Media at Harbour Centre
- Business Administration Research Initiatives
- Metropolis British Columbia, Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Diversity
- Educational Neuroscience Laboratory (Engrammetron)
- FREDA Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children
- Imaginative Education Research Group