Alumni

Mann says learning to understand policy and practice in SFU's Applied Legal Studies' MA program helped him build his career in crime prevention.

Alix Shield, a 2020 SFU PhD alumnus whose doctoral research sent shockwaves through Canada’s literary community, has won an Emerging Open Scholarship Award from the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute.

Ever since taking her first psychology class in high school, Heather Thom knew she wanted a career that would combine her love of the discipline with her desire to help people.

Vasundhara Gautam enjoyed learning languages as a high school student in India and then Singapore, and was puzzled why Google Translate didn’t do well on unrelated languages or on complex sentences. She decided to study this seemingly simple problem that no one had figured out.

A Mitacs internship with national advertising agency Rethink Canada opens career possibilities for MA in English graduate Marie Horgan.

Psychology alumna, Christina Wong, is dedicating her career to breaking the cycle of poverty in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES). Her start-up has gained widespread recognition, most recently with an entrepreneurial award and a $1 million donation.