Grad Student + Postdoc Spotlight

SFU CERi awarded Jason Proulx and Erica McAdam the Community-Engaged Graduate Scholar Award.

Geography PhD student Vimbikayi Rachel Chimuka shares her video for Science.org's annual #DanceYourPhD2023 global competition.

Sharon Bond, a master's student in the Beedie School of Business, is interviewed on the Bigger Than Me Podcast about her Indigenous cuisine business, Kekuli Café.

Weldrick and colleagues published an article titled "Experiences of Healthcare Workers in Long-Term Care during COVID-19: A Scoping Review" in the Journal of Applied Gerontology. It is open-access and available to all.

SFU Faculty of Education PhD candidate, Poh Tan, will speak at the Government of Canada's Global Affairs Event in collaboration with New Zealand on her STEM education research on Nov. 8 & 9. Join this conversation (it's free).

Kristina Podesva, a doctoral student in the Faculty of Contemporary Arts, shares an upcoming lecture by Dr. Ming Tiampo entitled "What it means for us to be together: Solidarity, Difficult Histories, and Planetary Futures in the work of Jin-me Yoon."

School of Communication doctoral student Woochul Kim serves on a jury for the Hinzpeter International Journalism Award.

Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies PhD student, Shanny Rann leads this inaugural event from Aug 28-31.

Doctoral student Soraya Janus and undergraduates Arianna Sihota, Emma Choat, Jasleen Sidhu, Macaela Bradley-Tse, Abby, and Selena Newman created a capstone presentation, “Social Echo: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls” for Brenda Morrison’s fourth-year Criminology class.

Andrew Cheng, a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Linguistics, was interviewed for a podcast about Korean Linguistics.

Marina Candeia, a Global Management Officer at SFU International and a Master of Arts student in International Studies, was selected as one of the 2021-22 ICN Youth Delegates and attended the West Coast Security Conference in November 2021, which took place virtually over the course of five days.

Bicram Rijal, a PhD candidate in Anthropology at SFU, writes an article and is interviewed on CBC Radio.

Momoko Ueda, a PhD candidate in the School of Criminology at SFU, will be live on Twitch on November 3 to present her recently published research!

Thomas Girard to present his research paper at the Sorbonne in Paris 2023.

Lucy Bell, a PhD student in Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies, is interviewed on BC Museums Association Podcast.

Individualized Interdisciplinary doctoral candidate, Jennifer Chutter, writes an article about housing affordability and the federal election, and is featured in The Conversation.

Individualized Interdisciplinary doctoral candidate, Jennifer Chutter, is interviewed on Spice Radio about housing affordability and the federal election.

Sdahl K’awaas is the recipient of Simon Fraser University’s 2021 Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy for her bravery in calling out racism in the heritage field and advocating for change.

Edited by SFU INS PhD student, Katherine Nichols; SFU Archaeology PhD student, Chelsea Meloche; and, SFU Archeology PhD graduate, Dr. Laure Spake.

This fall, CERi is excited to welcome an impressive and diverse group to the second cohort of CERi graduate fellows.

Guerin is dedicated to revitalizing hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the downriver dialect of the Halkomelem language spoken by the Musqueam people.

From a small town in Mexico, Amparo is pursuing her PhD in biomedical physiology and kinesiology (BPK).

Health Sciences student Shantelle Medal's project was recognized as the winning project of Student-Community Engagement Competition.

Mirjana Prpa is a changemaker and a PhD student at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology.

Meghan Parker is the first Canadian student at SFU to submit and defend a thesis in comic book form.

Congratulations to SFU Engineering Science PhD student Careesa Liu for receiving the Wendy McDonald Diversity Award!

Justine won both first place and public choice award in the Institute of Public Administration of Canada’s (IPAC) Fifth Annual National Student Paper Competition.

Andrea Del Rio is a recipient of the 2017 Pat Hibbits Scholarship Award.