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3 Minute Thesis
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges graduate students to present their thesis and its significance in just three minutes and one slide.
President's Dream Colloquium
The President's Dream Colloquium brings leading thinkers to SFU and provides an annual forum for intensive interdisciplinary exchange amongst faculty and students.
Your Career Compass
The Your Career Compass workshop series helps graduate students navigate their career options inside or outside of academia.
Book a 1:1 career coaching session to support your career exploration, job search, portfolio development, or future education plans. Amrit Mundy, Career Education Specialist, certified ICF Coach {https://coachingfederation.org/credentials-and-standards}, and fellow PhD graduate student will support you in these sessions.
Schedule your session today on myExperience {https://www.sfu.ca/wil/myexperience.html}, SFU’s platform for career appointments, events, jobs, and volunteer opportunities. After logging in, you can find 1:1 Grad student career appointments under the Career/Appointment Calendar in the left-hand menu.
Date/Time
Spring/Summer: Mondays & Fridays
Location
In-person & online
More Events for Grad Students
On Campus
- MobilizeU at SFU 2025: Knowledge Mobilization Course | January 13 – March 14, 2025 | Apply by December 11
An 8-week online knowledge mobilization course for faculty, students, staff, post-doctoral fellows, research team members, and community partners at SFU interested in learning more about how to mobilize research.
- Increasing Your Expression: Leveraging Word Emphasis | January 7
This 45 minute workshop will introduce to you strategic word emphasis and other techniques for creating a more varied and expressive spoken delivery.
Off Campus
- Chat-S (Storytelling) with Sto:lo Elder Dr. Gwen Point | December 18
- IRCC Information Sessions on PR Pathways for International Students | December 5, 12, 19 | Online
- Mitacs Professional Development Workshops from mastering the elevator pitch, to leadership, project management, and more! Check out their workshop dates from November 2024 through January 2025 by downloading the Excel sheet. Sign up by visiting their website.
Ongoing
- Indigenous Student Support; Jennifer Reandy is available for counselling support for Indigenous students from Tuesday to Friday.
- Thriving in your role as a TA/TM Online Course: gain resilience skills, identify boundaries in your role as a TA/TM helping students, and overview conditions for well-being in learning environments
- Instructional Skills Workshops (Various dates and deadlines for spring and summer)
- SFU Research Ethics Board runs weekly remote help sessions
- The Mentor Meet Program, available to entrepreneurs in the SFU Community, allows you to connect with mentors at all three SFU Campuses.
- Understanding and Coping with Anxiety and Depression Health & Counselling has a recorded/asynchronous version of their seminar about anxiety and depression. Download and print out the presentation slides and resources.