Research Opportunities for Undergrads

Research opportunities are limited, and our research labs are currently at capacity. We are not recruiting new candidates for Summer 2026 apart from the ongoing opportunity listed below. Please check back in July, when we plan to post positions for Fall 2026.

FUTURE APPLICATION PERIODS:
Fall 2026: July, 2026
Spring 2027: November, 2026
Summer 2027: March, 2027

Professor, Project Information Seeking Students? (Yes/No) and Further Details
Jozina Vander Klok
Field linguistics, language documentation, language description, fieldwork methodologies, linguistic analysis

Linguistic Field Research Lab: All interested students are invited to join the lab's weekly reading group discussions. The group meets weekly on Thursdays from 3:30-4:30 pm, in-person or online. The focus is on research surrounding topics on language documentation, language description, fieldwork methodologies, as well as on linguistic analysis of data. The reading group began meeting in October, 2025 and started with several chapters from Applicative Constructions in the World's Languages (eds. Zúñiga & Creissels, 2024), with the goals of (i) building a dataset for systematic comparison of some of the morphosyntactic alternations and (ii) creating a questionnaire for linguistic field research. Anyone can join this research and discussion series; however, it is volunteer-only at this point. Students are also welcome to share ongoing research on this topic.
Open to: Current SFU students.
To join: Email lingrsch@sfu.ca.



------------------------------
YES (ongoing, volunteer)
1-hr weekly meeting (drop-in)
Qualifications:
  • • Interest in field linguistics, language documentation, language description, and fieldwork methodologies
Note: No direct supervision outside of weekly meetings. This is intended as a learning community rather than a lab position.

If you have any questions about these opportunities or about the application process, please contact the Research Grants and Projects Coordinator.