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2018
- January
- Graduate Liberal Studies' Dr. Stephen Duguid now professor emeritus
- Congratulations to the 2017 Staff Achievement Award recipients from across FASS
- Comics a way to express ideas about health
- Alumni Profile: Jon Robinson, Public Policy
- An interview with Rhys Kesselman: Thoughts on an Illustrious Career in Policy
- Students from across FASS sweep inaugural Student Learning Commons Undergraduate Writing Contest
- FASS Graduate Students Up for Public Choice Award in National Competition
- Gerontology launches new student blog
- Communicating with babies--studies show moms and dads can differ in approach
- Autism and Aboriginal families: new project to shed light on health inequity in BC Aboriginal communities
- February
- Graduate Student Profile: Justine Mallou, Political Science
- Jeremy Brown Wins 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award
- New book on Secwépemc people garners critical praise
- FASS students and faculty featured in annual Office for Aboriginal Peoples Newsletter
- 2018 RADIUS fellows include FASS alum, students, and staff
- Urban Studies' Meg Holden awarded 2018 President's Award for Leadership in Sustainability
- March
- Master's students from the School of Public Policy win national case competition
- Chancellor Anne Giardini named Influential Woman in Business
- Meet Gerontology's new postdoctoral fellows, Dr. Theodore Cosco and Dr. Sue Peters
- Prize-winning book brings 10, 000 years of Shuswap First Nation history to life
- Economics' Arthur Robson appointed Fellow of the Canadian Economics Association
- Staff Profile: Rose Baik, Coordinator, Student Recruitment & Advising, FASS Surrey
- History welcomes new visiting scholar, Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky
- Art & Mindfulness event addresses mental health barriers
- Chris Lewis, First Nations Studies alum, appointed deputy chair of SFU Board of Governors
- Curious 73-year-old joins study tour to explore Spain’s Islamic history
- Recognize, render and redirect: Supporting faculty to support students with mental health challenges
- April
- Conference aims to improve diagnosis and support for women and girls with autism
- Claire Trépanier honoured by L'Ordre Des Palmes académiques
- Psychology alum earns 2018 BC Community Achievement Award
- 4th Annual SFU World Literature Student Conference a hit and a win for organizers and attendees alike
- SFU Political Science student named one of Surrey's "Top 25 Under 25"
- English's Colette Colligan uses big data to mine new insights into media coverage of the Oscar Wilde trials
- History's Mark Leier engages students with teaching portfolios and a simple question
- Surrey highschooler studying philosophy at SFU nets international human rights prize
- SFU Undergraduate Research Symposium presents original research by students from across FASS
- Linguistics' Dr. Maite Taboada harnessing Big Data to combat fake news
- May
- Political science prof Michael Howlett named Canada Research Chair in Policy Innovation for Climate Change
- Recognize, Render and Redirect: Supporting Faculty to Support Students with Mental Health Challenges
- SFU's Doug McArthur wins 2018 Lieutenant Governor silver medal for public administration
- Recognize, Render and Redirect: Supporting Faculty to Support Students with Mental Health Challenges
- June
- In Memoriam: Meiyu Li
- SFU and NATO Defense College sign Memorandum of Understanding
- Convocation Award Winners, 2018
- Convocation Profile: Paul Hagen, History
- Convocation Profile: Micaela Evans, Gender, Sexuality and Womens Studies and First Nations Studies
- Convocation Profile: Samuel Thiak, Political Science
- Convocation Profile: Kaitlyn Thompson, Linguistics
- Convocation Profile: Anoop Virk, International Studies
- Convocation Profile: Samaah Jaffer, International Studies and World Literature
- FASS Employee Achievement Awards
- First Nations Studies undergraduate Melanie Mercer earns student essay award from Blue Metropolis Literary Prize
- History's Mark Leier and Psychology's Jodi Viljoen recognized for excellent graduate supervision
- Philosophy's Dr. Lisa Shapiro earns Ulrike Detmers Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize
- In Memoriam: Maha El Meseery, School of Interactive Arts & Technology
- 2018 Cormack Teaching Award Winners
- July
- August
- Psychology postdoc partners with BC Hydro to study how innovative light therapy can improve mental health and addictions treatments
- Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies launches 2017/18 Newsletter
- International Studies student enlivens vacant storefronts in Surrey, BC
- Deanna Reder elected to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars
- September
- New Faculty Profile: Heather Bliss, Linguistics
- American community at SFU helps to get out the US vote
- Welcome Dr. Maite Taboada, FASS Associate Dean of Research for Fall 2018
- Gender Equality Activist Ellen Woodsworth Receives Rosemary Brown Award for Women
- 2018 FASS Autumn Reception and Cormack Teaching Symposium
- Keeping the spirit of Gandhi alive at SFU
- New Faculty Profile: June Scudeler, First Nations Studies and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
- Welcome: New FASS Faculty Members
- Psychology PhD student finds suprising data on dating violence
- Psychology grad earns 2018 Terry Fox Gold Medal
- 2018 FASS Autumn Reception and Cormack Teaching Symposium
- Prison tours increase student empathy towards prisoners and staff
- October
- SFU Political Science organizes event to inform BC voters in preparation of upcoming referendum on electoral reform
- 2018 Dean's Medals of Excellence
- Convocation Profile: Don Shafer, MA, Graduate Liberal Studies
- 2018 FASS Employee Achievement Awards
- Convocation Profile: Soraya Janus, MA Criminology
- Sociology's Ann Travers featured on Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Blog
- Convocation Profile: Alex Garcia Fuentes, International Studies
- Sociology & Anthropology Grad Student Yun Zhang on the International Teaching Assistant Program
- Faculty Profile: Jodi Viljoen
- Faculty Profile: Mark Leier
- 2018 Cormack Teaching Symposium: The craft of teaching and putting yourself in your students' shoes
- November
- Undergraduate Student Profile: Rébecca Brassard, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and Political Science
- SFU Psychology places high on Times Higher Education World University Subject Rankings
- Field School Notes: International Studies
- Field School Notes: Criminology
- Video: How FASS graduate students and postdocs can access $15 000 in Mitacs funding
- Criminology professor Gail Anderson's expertise in forensic entomology helps exonerate American woman imprisoned for 17 years
- Travel Report: Benjamin Dipple, History
- Travel Report: Panagiotis Delis, History
- Travel Report: Gyuzel Kamalova, Sociology and Anthropology
- December
- FASS Courses Open Spring 2019
- Welcome Ruby Campbell, new FASS Director of Advancement
- Undergraduate student Natalie Lim earns top honour with CBC Poetry Prize
- New Faculty Profile: Laurel Weldon, Political Science
- International Studies student Raymond Messier on his summer of international search and rescue ambassadorship
- Travel Report: Sarah Vanderveer, Sociology and Anthropology
- Travel Report: Songwei He, History
- January
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2017
- January
- Christine Kim and Helen Leung on the Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research
- SFU creates institute for tech research on healthy aging
- Anthropology MA student examines lifestyle of Mexican migrant agricultural workers
- Congratulations to Our Recent Order of Canada Recipients
- First Nations Language Centre races to preserve B.C. First Nations languages
- February
- Graduate Student Profile: Noortje de Weers, Linguistics
- International recognition for Criminology's pioneering forensic entomologist Gail Anderson
- New cohort of Squamish speakers hopes to revitalize language
- SFU economist runs the numbers on speed dating
- Study: giving a gift that reflects you rather than your valentine strengthens relationships
- Research Profile: Tina Adcock, History
- SFU honours FASS Connections Mentorship Program
- March
- Research Profile: Dr. Colette Colligan Discovering Wilde Data
- Graduate Student Profile: Andrew Czink, GLS
- Psychology student shares four tips for couples in a long distance relationship
- Award for best dissertation won by Criminology's Evan McCuish
- Students win at Model NATO Competition
- Graduate Profile: Reema Faris, GSWS
- A FASS sustainability champion wins President’s Award for Leadership in Sustainability
- Hope Caldi wins national award for her public policy recommendations
- Criminology's Sheri Fabian receives SFU's highest honour for teaching
- Alumni Profile: Robert Bittner, GSWS
- Undergraduate Profile: Sarah Duggan, International Studies
- April
- May
- Study suggests drug criminalization undermines global HIV efforts
- Photovoice Exhibit Explores Immigration, Aging, and Lived Experiences
- PhD Student Lindsey Bannister on Writer in Residence Programs
- Gloria Gutman, Gerontology, Invested into the Order of Canada
- GLS alumna Roberta Staley on women in media and gender equality in Afghanistan
- Graduate Student Profile: Alex Thumm, Urban Studies
- History Undergraduate Student Jazmin Hundal Receives 2017 George Paris Award in Scottish Studies
- June
- Criminology grad recognized for volunteerism and academic achievement
- Convocation Profile: Jennifer Cooper, Political Science
- Convocation Profile: Julie Andreyev, GLS
- Convocation 2017: Matty Taghipour, BA, advocating for restorative justice
- Convocation 2017: Billie Joe Rogers, PhD, evaluates a BC program for indigenous youth
- Convocation 2017: Bangladesh research, co-op readies MA student Kirk Hepburn for career
- Graduate Convocation Medal Winners, 2017
- Convocation Profile: Kelsey Wilson, World Literature
- Convocation 2017: SFU experience “life-changing” for Lucia Pecnikova, BA
- Convocation 2017: Glenyth Caragata, PhD, research on understanding older drivers’ needs
- Dionne Brand to receive honourary degree and give Shadbolt Lecture
- 2017 FASS Convocation Speakers
- Study on Aging and Resiliency Benefits from New CIHR Funding
- Jordan Abel Wins the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize
- Nancy Olewiler, Public Policy, Named a 2017 YWCA Woman of Distinction
- July
- GSWS study results in new support services for LGBTQ+ newcomers
- Video by Director of World Literature program featured in The Tyee
- Faculty Research Profile: Dr. John McDonald, Psychology
- Students launch second edition of De Voix Vives
- Danielle Murdoch returns to place that kindled her passion for criminology
- Graduate Student Profile: Laura Kadowaki, Gerontology
- August
- September
- Dr. Evan McCuish has a strong background in research collaboration
- Graduate Student Profile: Nadine Boulay, GSWS
- John Harriss (International Studies) named Royal Society of Canada Fellow
- Coaching Hockey in China: How a Political Science and Economics Major Spent His Summer
- Research Profile: Tanya Broesch, Psychology
- Video connects World Literature community
- October
- 2017 Dean's Medals
- SFU Aboriginal Reconciliation Council presents calls to action for reconciliation to SFU President Andrew Petter.
- How Vancouver Specials make Vancouver special
- Convocation Profile: Esinam Ayesu-Attah, Sociology and Criminology
- New Major in Labour Studies to Launch in Fall 2018
- Grad strikes philosophy degree off long bucket list
- Travel Report: Lindsey Bannister, Department of English
- Convocation Profile: Roisin Elworthy, French
- November
- Field Notes: Anna Lechintan, World Literature
- Mastery grading: How one professor uses tests to help his students learn
- David Chariandy’s second novel, Brother, wins 2017 Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- SFU community loses Donald Grayston, humanities and religious studies scholar, retired priest, and activist.
- Postdoctoral researcher in linguistics, Katharina Ehret, studies why online comments matter
- World Literature Program celebrates 10 years
- Restorative justice researcher and SFU alumnus Alana Abramson recognized by BC Ministry of Public Safety
- Engaging in eco-friendly behaviours can promote well-being say SFU researchers
- SFU community loses Donald Grayston, humanities and religious studies scholar, retired priest, and activist.
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2016
- January
- February
- Can you predict romantic attraction? This Psychology study is trying to find the answer
- Linguistics Manager Rita Parmar Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
- Congratulations to Psychology's Dr. John McDonald and Dr. Marlene Moretti on their Canada Research Chair Appointments
- International Studies Student, Claire Sieffert, Campaigns for National Eating Disorder Policy
- Alumna Profile: Janice Morris, English
- Governor General's Medal for the late Liz Elliott
- March
- Indian linguist teaches Haida language—and learns it in the process
- Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Sonja Luehrmann, Sociology & Anthropology
- Getting Closer With Kindness: Social Anxiety Disorder Research
- Stephen Duguid receives Excellence in Teaching Award
- SFU recognizes sustainability champion Wes Regan, Urban Studies student
- GSWS Students Call for Sexual Assault Prevention & Support Centre at SFU
- April
- Urban Studies and Public Policy conference discusses 50 years of regional district model
- War Narratives in the 21st Century
- Haida experience moves Indian language scholar
- Alumna Profile: MLA Melanie Mark, Political Science
- Martin Andresen receives the 2016 Western Society of Criminology Fellows Award
- SFU celebrates Tartan Day with a visit from 78th Fraser Highlanders
- History Undergrad William Gill Receives Centre for Scottish Studies Award
- May
- June
- Congratulations to Professor Emerita Sandra Djwa for her Honorary Degree from McGill University
- White Rock politician seeks to improve public policies
- Dr. Sonja Luehrmann receives Waldo Gifford Leland Award from the Society of American Archivists
- From senior to señora: Margaret Torgerson’s journey in gerontology
- Undergrad takes on the full university experience: Andreas Hovland
- Shedding new light on sex offenders' crimes reveals surprises
- Graduate Profile: Xueqiong Feng, BA, Economics
- Graduate Profile: Katarina Bogosavljevic, BA, Criminology
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- Graduate Profile: Daniel Mundeva, MA International Studies
- Dean of Graduate Studies Awards for Excellence: Eric Beauregard, Criminology
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- July
- August
- Graduate Liberal Studies student, Shawk Alani, organizes photography workshop for Syrian refugee children
- Department of French launches De Voix Vives, an online journal of student poetry and prose in French
- Criminology's Eric Beauregard recognized for excellence in supervision
- New app from First Nations Language Centre preserves Shuswap legend
- September
- October
- Sociology & Anthropology Convocation 2016
- English Alumna Lucia Lorenzi receives Governor General’s Award
- Habiba Zaman, GSWS, Honoured by Hohai University
- Research Profile: Luba Petersen, Economics
- 2016 Dean’s Medals
- Convocation Profile: Fredrick (Levi) Wilson, First Nations Studies
- Convocation Profile: Cameron Young, Economics
- Convocation Profile: Alana Abramson, Criminology
- Convocation Profile: Linda Chen, Economics
- Convocation Profile: Joy Walcott-Francis, GSWS
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2015
- January
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- Political Science and International Studies Students Represent SFU at Model Nato Youth Summit
- Bill Reid Centre Relocates to Burnaby Campus
- Department of Linguistics Delegation to Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Institute for the Humanities Hosts Karen Ferguson Lecture on Black Leadership in America
- School of Public Policy Team Wins National Policy Case Competition
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- May
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- GSWS Student Caroline Doerksen Receives Pride Legacy Award
- Convocation Profile: Nathan Murray, Economics BA
- Student Profile: Claudia Arrieta, International Studies
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- 79-year-old Meg Penner Graduates with a Master’s in Humanities
- SFU Wrestler Collects BA in English on Way to 2015 Pan Am Games
- Degree Helps New Westminster Mayor Solve Real World Problems
- Criminology's Dr. Ehsan Jozaghi and his Commitment to Research in Harm Reduction
- Graduating Sociology Student Kevin Kimoto Co-founds Social Venture
- Life through Autofiction: French MA Graduate, Laurence Gavreau Sinotte, on Québécois Novelist Nelly Arcan
- Undergraduate Convocation Award Winners, 2015
- Psychology's Dr. Samuele Zilioli receives Governor General's Gold Medal
- Graduate Convocation Medal Winners, 2015
- Surviving Grad School: History’s Mark Leier and Artist Sam Bradd Illustrate Advice for Graduate Students
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- August
- September
- October
- Nathan Lyndsay awarded Rosemary Brown Undergraduate Scholarship in Social Justice
- Sara Diamond, Digital Media Arts Pioneer, on her "Early Days" at SFU
- Remembering Canada's Difficult Histories: Japanese Canadian Oral History
- Bad Guys, Good Bugs: Criminology's Gail Anderson on Forensic Entomology
- Suicide Research Prompts CIHR Banting Fellowship
- Stephen Collis co-recipient of Sterling Prize for Work in Sustainable Energy and Materials Policy
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2014
- January
- February
- SFU Leaders in Public Engagement: Dr. Marlene Moretti of the Department of Psychology
- SFU’s Research Chair in Environmental Criminology, Dr. Graham Farrell, on Criminology’s “Dirty Little Secret”
- Alumna Profile: Jennifer Scott, English
- The Elephants in Vancouver’s Sustainable Food Movement
- Metro Vancouver Housing Under SFU Microscope
- March
- SFU Policy Case Team in Toronto: How Seven Days Turns into 20 Minutes
- Gendered Tensions Across History: Dr. Lara Campbell on Emerging Research and Contexts
- Indigenous Literatures in Canada
- Student Profile – Aleks Besan, International Studies
- Historian Willeen Keough Takes on Housing Justice Struggles
- Alumnus Profile: Benjamin Hendriksen, Public Policy
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- Tricycle Symbolizes Freedom for Residential-School Children
- Bev Davino, Psychology, wins 2013 Staff Achievement Award
- Marjorie Griffen Cohen Honoured With Lifetime Achievement Award
- Scientists Discover Brain’s Anti-distraction System
- Study Says We’re Over the Hill at 24
- Faculty Profile: Chung-hye Han, Department of Linguistics
- “Learning to Tell Our Academic Stories in Different Ways”: Dr. Sasha Colby
- SSHRC Storytelling Finals for FASS Students
- Sandra Djwa: Biographer Extraordinaire
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- William Doulome: Emerging Educator and Advocate for the Visually Impaired
- Infrastructure Versus Aftershock: Keren Zaiontz and Peter Dickinson on Performance, Global Mega-Events, and Human Rights
- PhD Student Adam Vaughan Examines Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System
- 2014 Cormack Teaching Award Winners
- Workshop on the History of the Philosophical Concept of Pleasure
- Dara Culhane: Performance Studies for Teaching and Practicing Ethnography
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2013
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Congratulations 2021 FASS Dean’s Medal Recipients
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is pleased to congratulate the 2021 recipients of the FASS Dean's Medals.
Dean's Medals are given in recognition of academic excellence in research, teaching, and service, with an emphasis on significant contributions while in position in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at SFU.
- The Dean’s Medal for Lifetime Achievement goes to Dr. Nicolas Schmitt from the Department of Economics
- Two Dean’s Medals go to Dr. Jennifer Wong, School of Criminology and Dr. Jodi Viljoen, Department of Psychology.
Dr. Nicolas Schmitt
Dr. Nicolas Schmitt is a professor from SFU’s Department of Economics. He joined the department in 1990 and has been Associate Chair and Chair of the Department, as well as a member of several committees and boards at the university level and beyond.
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Originally from Switzerland, Schmitt completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Lausanne and his PhD at the University of Toronto. He held faculty positions at Laval University, Western University and at the University of Geneva, and visiting positions at several universities around the world.
Schmitt teaches courses in international economics including the breadth course, “The World Economy.” Created in the 1990s, this course was entirely re-designed a few years ago to reflect the different phases of globalization since the pre-industrial revolution.
Schmitt’s research projects have been supported by more than 20 research grants over the years, and focus on international economics and industrial organization, often at the intersection of the two fields. Two themes dominate his research: the mechanisms through which firms adjust and respond to new environments, whether technological or induced by government policies, especially trade liberalization policies, and the causes and consequences of the international mobility of workers.
The overarching theme of his contributions about firm adjustments is to show that trade liberalization policies rarely bring the ‘gains from trade’ that they are often claimed to have unless other policies, such as competition policies, are brought to the fore.
Schmitt’s research has been published in top field and general. In 2012, the Canadian Economics Association awarded Schmitt and co-author Dominique M. Gross the John Vanderkamp Prize for their article, “Temporary Foreign Workers and Regional Labour Market Disparities” published in Canadian Public Policy.
Schmitt’s current research investigates how the role of firm inventory sheds light on transmission mechanisms and evaluates why the impact of new tariffs on imports and prices are much smaller and slower than suggested by existing approaches.
Dr. Jennifer Wong
Dr. Jennifer Wong is an Associate Professor from SFU’s School of Criminology. Her research interests lie primarily in crime prevention and intervention, particularly in relation to evidence-based programs and crime control policy. She holds a PhD in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California, and an MA in Program Evaluation from Claremont Graduate University.
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Wong is an applied researcher who is primarily interested in the development of knowledge that is useful to the public, practitioners, and policymakers about best practices for preventing crime. Her work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including Criminal Justice and Behavior, Crime and Delinquency, Trauma, Violence & Abuse, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and the Journal of Criminal Justice.
She has extensive experience planning, managing, and conducting program evaluations, including but not limited to evaluating 12 intimate partner violence prevention programs operating throughout BC and designing a pilot evaluation to provide free legal advising to survivors of sexual assault. Currently, she is leading an evaluation of the high school component of BC’s End Gang Life project, (part of a Surrey gang prevention program) and an evaluation of the SFU Sexual Violence Support & Prevention Office campaign activities and workshops.
In her work to help determine best practices in prevention and intervention programs, she has completed close to 100 systematic reviews and meta-analyses. These include topics such as dating violence prevention, street gangs, halfway houses, restorative justice, electronic monitoring, and school-based bullying prevention. She has been the lead or co-applicant on 17 public and private research grants/contracts since 2008.
Wong is an outstanding teacher and mentor. In addition to regularly teaching courses in criminal behaviour, research methods, criminal justice policy and program evaluation, 84% of her journal articles were written with her students as co-authors.
She is highly engaged member of the School of Criminology who has served as the Associate Director of Research since 2017 and on numerous administrative committees at the university. She has been on the board of the Western Society of Criminology since 2017, has refereed 91 journal manuscripts and 3 SSHRC Insight Grant proposals, and is a member of the editorial board for Crime & Delinquency. And she’s served as a consultant for organizations such as Odd Squad Production Society, Ending Violence Association of BC, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice, and The Safety Lab in Cape Town.
Dr. Jodi Viljoen
Dr. Jodi Viljoen is a professor from SFU’s Department of Psychology. WIth an MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology from SFU, Viljoen’s research is aimed at improving services for adolescents in the justice system. Many adolescents engage in risky or illegal behaviour, and Viljoen’s work is aimed at developing appropriate interventions so that they can successfully resist criminal behaviour.
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In addition to authoring 97 journal articles and chapters, 8 guides, and 21 reports, Viljoen has contributed over 200 conference presentations, 55 invited talks, and held $4,270,183 in funding from agencies such as SSHRC, CIHR, and MSFHR.
She received the American Psychology-Law Society’s Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Contributions in 2010 and held a Career Investigator Award from MSFHR from 2007 to 2014. In 2020, Viljoen was named to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars.
Her research has gained national and international uptake. Her collaboration to develop a way to assess risk factors and strengths in adolescents in the justice system has been implemented in at least 10 countries, and translated into four languages, with two additional translations underway. In addition, British Columbia’s Ministry of Children and Family Development adopted Viljoen’s treatment-planning guide throughout the province (Viljoen et al., 2019). This guide is now used to plan treatment for each adolescent on probation (2,000 adolescents per year).
Viljoen is also a model teacher and mentor. She is known to incorporate a number of innovations, such as the use of virtual reality, in the her undergraduate and graduate courses. She has served on 48 MA and PhD committees and her excellence in teaching and graduate supervision earned her the SFU Dean of Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Supervision in 2018. Her undergraduate students have earned awards and pursued graduate studies at top universities and all her graduate students have earned tri-council funding during their studies.
Viljoen is as dedicated to her administrative work as her research and teaching, and has served on over 35 committees within the Department of Psychology, SFU, and the wider academic community. Her service includes contributions to the Tenure and Promotions Committees for SFU’s Department of Psychology and School of Criminology and her work as Area Coordinator for the Law and Forensic Psychology Program (ranked as one of the top law-forensic programs in North America). Focusing on issues of diversity, she co-chairs with Dr. Michael Schmitt the Department of Psychology’s Indigenous Reconciliation Committee and serves on the Minority Affairs Committee for the American Psychology-Law Society. In addition to being an Elected Member-at-Large for the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Service, Viljoen has volunteered over 2,000 hours for partnership projects with mental health and justice agencies and has trained over 800 professionals in the field.