About Graduate Studies at SFU

Amanda studies how stress and sleep patterns may affect women's reproductive development.

Alexandra studies the properties of networks for her doctoral research in mathematics.

Dr. Jones' research will study the influence of external interventions on microbiome composition.

Dr. Letham examines shoreline changes in the Northwest Coast of North America.

Dr. Kyle Willmott's doctoral research broadly focused on questions of political and economic sociology, and Indigenous policy.

Dr. Chen is a PhD graduate from the School of Communication in the Faculty of Communication, Art + Technology.

Dr. Deng pushed the frontiers of computer vision and deep learning for his doctoral research in the School of Computing Science.

Dr. Thrift has completed her Educational Psychology PhD from the Faculty of Education.

Dr. Greenberg's research focused on the winning and losing evolutionary species in today's rapid, human-driven environmental change.

Dr. Zucca published numerous papers in scholarly journals during his time at the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science.

Dr. Collins' research examined gendered poverty relations, poverty, and the built environment when it comes to overdose risk impact among women.

Dr. Anderson developed a suite of geosimulation models to represent the dynamics and behaviour of emerald ash borer infestation.

Dr. Adamski's dissertation focuses on implementation of a hydrogen-powered, clean energy economy through new functional material designs.

Anne St. Clair is from the School of Resource and Environmental Management in the Faculty of Environment.

Dr. Olivia Kanna has earned her third Master's degree in Education, in Teaching English as an Additional Language.

Dr. Wiwad is a doctoral graduate from the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Art + Social Sciences.

Dr. Kris Frederickson has a Master's of Business in Indigenous Business & Leadership from the Beedie School of Business.

Dr. Knight from the Department of English focused on Indigenous writers who authoritatively proclaim enduring national, linguistic, and land-based connections for her research.

Dr. Kanji in the Faculty of Education examined how a large Canadian university could increase dental science student retention.

Ms. Teegee has completed her Executive MBA Indigenous Business and Leadership program.

Dr. Trevisan's research examines how people with autism perceive, understand, and communication emotions.

Dr. Carter in Health Sciences studied sexual health, happiness, and pleasure among more than 1,400 women living with HIV in Canada.

Dr. Kim from the Department of Linguistics investigated syntatic and interpretive properties of Korean anaphoric devices.

Victoria’s Master’s of Science research in the Faculty of Environment focused on measuring carbon storage in seagrass ecosystems in BC.

Dr. Blake's research examines the development of ‘diversity’ as a policy objective in national and international policy debates.

Dr. Talab pursued research in Molecular and Cell Biology in the Faculty of Science.

Dr. Ibrahim from the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering focused on identifying practical uses for microfluidic battery technology.

Dr. Godwin from the Department of Biological Sciences researched the impacts of parasitic sea live on wild juvenile salmon.

Dr. Burt's research illuminates the drivers of ecosystem transformations occurring as sea otters recover and expand their range on BC's coasts.

Dr. Yang from the School of Computing Science invented a number of key algorithms for deploying viral marketing campaigns in social networks.

Dr. Wilson studies the social-ecological diversity and resilience in Canadian fisheries.

Kathryn aims to devise new graph algorithms to solve computational problems.

Natalie's research on the genetic features of the HIV virus aims to bring us closer towards a cure.

Sarah's research involves a multi-faceted approach to modeling bumble bee dynamics.

Katherine studies the assessment of violent behavior and psychopathic personality.

Denise researches and creates design guidelines for VR to help enhance people's well-being.

Abdelrahman's research focuses on powering smart wearable devices.

Spencer Greening has a gift for balancing traditional Indigenous knowledge, research, language and culture with Western scholarship, politics and activism.

Dr. MacAulay examined how new technologies affect gay men's communities and their HIV prevention needs.

Dr. Closson explored the intersect between sexual decision making, gender, and HIV-risk among young people in Soweto, South Africa.

Dr. Long from the Faculty of Education investigated young children's prosocial development in a Montessori classroom in a longitudinal study.

Dr. Rodgers from the Faculty of Education uses philosophy of mind to question long-held pedagogical questions.

Dr. Warren designed an innovative method to estimate age of immature insects which can be applied to death investigations.

Dr. Pek studied how companies can integrate environmental & social sustainability into their cultures and operations.

Dr. Teeple explored the feasibility of creating a nuclear arms control regime in the Arctic within the context of the U.S.-Russia arms competition.

Dr. Peters' doctoral dissertation unravels the role blood activity plays in eliciting cardiac arrhythmia.

Christine's accelerated master's thesis looked into the development of a multi-modal imaging system.

David from the Faculty of Environment uncovered ways that new biometric technologies could intensify and extend surveillance.

Dr. Hall studied the genetic interaction and regulation of essential cellular mechanisms during development for his PhD thesis.

Bamdad is from the Department of Mathematics in the Faculty of Science.

Dr. Adams from the Faculty of Health Sciences spent three months in Mexico to learn how medical tourism practices shape health-care delivery.

Dr. Brown used machine learning to improve understanding of infant brain structure and development to predict neurodevelopment outcomes.

Dr. Wilson's work shows how qualitative research contributes to the efforts of community-based organizations towards social justice.

Dr. De'Ath provides new insights into the relationships between culture and capital in a moment of protracted economic crisis.

Dr. Patterson worked with women living with HIV to examine how the law may impact their healthcare engagement.

Dr. Thompson of the Department of Chemistry's thesis was on the design of highly birefringent materials.

Dr. Niu of the Faculty of Education developed an online argumentation visualization tool called the dialectical map for her dissertation.

Danielle Jeong is from the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology in the Faculty of Science.

Dr. McCuish is from the School of Criminology in the Faculty of Arts + Social Sciences.

Tiffany's research used energy-economy modelling to analyze policy options for Canada to achieve greenhouse gas emission targets.

Dr. Churchley's dissertation contributes to a deeper understanding of graph immersions and the problems of structural graph theory.

Grace has completed her MBA in the Beedie School of Business where she learned how to create sustainable change in healthcare systems.

Dr. Ayaka's dissertation looks at the "memoryscapes" of the sex trade in Japan's Koganecho district in the 2000s.

Dr. Rezansoff from Health Sciences is the first SFU student to be awarded two Dean of Graduate Studies Convocation Medals.