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.

2025 winners

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

See recap post

Get ready for FASS 3MT!

The 2026 FASS Heat is coming up. Get ready to present your research on March 9, from 1:00–3:00 p.m.

Registration open soon. 

Learn more

Past winners

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

See recap post

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

See recap post