- Faculty & Staff
- About
- Departments and programs
- Anthropology
- Applied Legal Studies
- Cognitive Science
- Criminology
- Economics
- English
- French
- French Cohort Program
- Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
- Gerontology
- Global Asia
- Global Humanities
- Graduate Liberal Studies
- Hellenic Studies
- History
- Indigenous Languages
- Indigenous Studies
- International Studies
- Labour Studies
- Linguistics
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Policy
- Social Data Analytics
- Sociology
- Urban Studies
- World Languages & Literatures
- Undergraduate
- Graduate
- Research
- Teaching
- News
- Community
- FASS at Surrey
- Next steps for new students (redirect)
Research Excellence Awards
In recognition of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researchers who have produced sustained and impactful scholarly output and achieved national and international recognition throughout their careers.
2024 Winners
Research Excellence Award in Humanities
Lara Campbell
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Lara Campbell's research expertise lies in 20th Century North American gender and women's history, the history of social activism, feminist movements and feminist theory, and gender and the welfare state. Her past research has focused on how the meanings of welfare and citizenship shifted in the 1930s, as well as how unemployment and humiliating relief policy shaped the lives of unemployed families in Ontario. She is the author and co-editor of seven books and edited collections exploring histories of war resistance, 1960s activism, and the intersection of emotions and affect theory within the women’s movement. Her most recent monograph, A Great Revolutionary Wave: Women and the Vote in British Columbia, explores the history of the suffrage movement in the province. The book received the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Award for best scholarly book on the history of British Columbia (2021), the Canadian Historical Association's Clio Prize for British Columbia history, and received a commendation from the British Columbia Historical Federation for the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing (2021).
Research Excellence Award in Social Sciences
Arthur Robson
Economics
Arthur Robson is one of Canada's most prominent economic theorists and has held multiple prestigious honours and appointments, including the Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the John Rae Prize, the Killam Research Fellowship, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. His research—which bridges biology, anthropology, and economics—investigates the biological underpinnings of human economic behavior and the implications for economic theory. A current focus of this research is on neuroeconomics. Robson received a BSc (Hons) in mathematics from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1968. He went on to complete his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975.
Early Career Research Excellence Award in Humanities
Joanne Leow
English
A Canada Research Chair in Transnational and Decolonial Digital Humanities, Joanne Leow's work critiques colonial conceptions of digital humanities projects by centering under-represented communities and their histories and stories in Canada and Asia. Combining artistic and digital humanities methodologies, her research focuses on rethinking how and for whom digital archives are created, and seeks to ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusion are built into the ways in which digital data is classified, organized, and disseminated. Her ongoing research uses digital tools to shape our understanding of contested (post)colonial spaces in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Vancouver, and transnational Asian food stories and pathways. These projects will further include accessible and innovative multimedia art exhibits, creative writing publications, and performative talks.
Early Career Research Excellence Award in Social Sciences
Yuthika Girme
Psychology
As director of the Singlehood Experiences and Complexities Underlying Relationships (SECURE) Lab, Yuthika Girme and her team study factors in romantic relationships and singlehood that contribute to well-being, with a specific focus on peoples’ attachment insecurities, social support networks, experiences of stigma and discrimination and other complexities of social relationships. She hosts an educational podcast called Merlot with my Beau, which focuses on the complexities associated with singlehood experiences, close relationship dynamics, and personality traits. Girme has also received recognition for her work as an educator, having received the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award, the FASS Cormack Teaching Award, and the Barry Beyerstein Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is the recipient of a number of early career research awards, including the Society of Experimental and Social Psychology (SESP) Dissertation Award, Association of Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star Award, and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Caryl Rusbult Early Career Award.