Tri-Agency Scholarships and Fellowships

The Tri-Agency Scholarships and Fellowships are compriseed of Canada’s three research granting agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). 

This year, we are pleased to share that 12 graduate students from SFU's Faculty of Environment recieved over $650,000 to advance their research projects that address social justice, climate solutions, community resilience, reconciliation and indigenization and more. 

Climate Solutions

Is the future shared, automated, or electric? A reflexive, mixed-method approach to anticipating consumer demand for new mobility technologies
Zoe Long, PHD student, School of Resource and Envirnmoental Management

Social Innovation Policy for Bioplastics
Nadia Springle, MRM student, School of Resource and Environmental Management

Canadian Policy Pathways to Carbon Neutrality by 2050: Sectoral and Land-Use Implications
Emma Starke, MRM student, School of Resource and Environmental Management 

Policy and Technology Pathways to Achieve Net Zero Emissions in Canada by 2050
Kaitlin Thompson, MRM student, School of Resource and Environmental Management

Social Justice

Swimming Against the Tide: Segregation at Vancouver's Crystal Pool
Joy Russel, MA student, Department of Geography

Community Resilience

Revitalizing Indigenous intertidal management practices as a pathway to climate change adaptation and social-ecological resilience
Kimly Thompson, PHD student, School of Resource and Environmental Management 

Evaluating Environmental Planning Systems in British Columbia
Chelsea Mathieson, MRM student, School of Resource and Environmental Management 

Reconciliation/Indigenization 

Inter/National Constellations of Urban Indigeneity: Indigenous Women Reimagining Indigenous Self-Determination between Canada and Russia
Tsatia Adzich, PHD student, Department of Geography

A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Precolonial Atl'ka7tsem Howe Sound Fisheries
Alexandra Derian, MA student, Department of Archaeology 

Fishing for Answers: Using Multi-Level Analyses to Understand Traditional Management Practices
Kristen Oliver, MA student, Department of Archaeology 

Other 

Ethnoarchaeological Survey of Sua Beer and Brewing Practices in Northern Ethiopia
Melissa Ayling, MA student, Department of Archaeology 

Resolving conflicts in resource development: The role of impact benefit agreements
Cameron Gunton, PHD student, School of Resource and Environmental Management