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FASS Three Minute Thesis
One slide…three minutes…cash prizes! Open to all FASS graduate students, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges students to present their thesis and its significance in just three minutes to a general audience.
If you have any questions regarding the FASS 3MT heat, please email fasssec@sfu.ca.
2026 winners
First Place winner
Tomos Land
MA in Political Science
Line of Fire: The Interconnected Nature of Biodiversity and National Security
Second Place and People's Choice Winner
Zahraa Hawili
MA in Public Policy
Careers or Cradles: Investigating the Impact Employment has on Fertility Decisions of Mothers in Canada
Honourable Mention
Deborah Vieyra
MA in Graduate Liberal Studies
Cruciverbalists: Life-Writing Out of Mind
Past winners
2025
First Place winner
Madelyn Prevost
PhD in Anthropology
Weaving Threads; Making Worlds
Second Place winner
Virginia Uhi
MA in Linguistics
Are They Good Enough for You?
People's Choice Winner
Tatiana Parrish
MA in Political Science
CEDAW and Feminism Pressure Canada to End Femicide
2024
First Place winner and People's Choice winner
Eva Ribbers
PhD in Law and Forensic Psychology
Preventing Miscarriages of Justice by Improving Judicial Assessment of Eyewitness Identification Evidence
Second Place winner (Tied)
Nathan Collins
MA in Global Humanities
A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Social Photography and the Subject
Second Place winner (Tied)
Vanja Vekic
MA in Linguistics
Harry Potter and the Existential There
2023
First Place winner and People's Choice winner
Dasha Gluhareva
PhD in Linguistics
Dynamic Self- and Other-Assessment of Second Language Speech
Second Place winner
Mariana Pinzon-Caicedo
MA in Sociology and Anthropology
Victim's Speech-Acts in Transitional Justice Systems
People's Choice winner
Farinaz Rikhtehgaran
MA in Gerontology
Walkable Neighbourhoods for Immigrant Older Adults