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FASS Graduate Student Scholarship Application Mentorship
Feeling daunted about applying for a scholarship or award? Wondering what needs to go in a SSHRC, CIHR, NSERC or other major award application? Need some concrete examples from successful scholarship applications?
Here is an opportunity for help.
We are connecting FASS graduate students interested in applying for major scholarships (e.g., Tri-agency scholarships, major private or donor awards) with other graduate students who have been successful in their scholarship applications, as well as faculty, working within similar research areas. Whether you’re looking for some general advice or more concrete examples of successfully funded proposals and specific feedback on drafts, reach out to one of the student or faculty mentors listed below doing similar research.
Graduate Student Mentors
Please check back regularly as mentors will be added on a continual basis.
Morgaine Lee
mail morgaine_lee@sfu.ca
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Degree: MA
Scholarships Awarded: SSHRC CGS-M
Research areas:
- Multispecies ethnography
- Visual anthropology
- Affect theory
- Creative methods
Regina Baeza Martinez
mail rbaezama@sfu.ca
Department: Sociology
Degree: MA
Scholarships Awarded: SSHRC CGS-M
Research areas:
- Experiences of Guatemalan agricultural migrant workers in BC
Sara Doering
mail sdoering@sfu.ca
Department: Criminology
Degree: MA and PhD
Scholarships Awarded: SSHRC CGS-D and SSHRC CGS-M
Research areas:
- Terrorism
- Violent extremism
Sherene Balanji
mail sherene_balanji@sfu.ca
Department: Psychology
Degree: MA and PhD
Scholarships Awarded: Doctoral and Masters Research Awards - Canadian Institute of Health Research and Graduate Dean's Entrance Scholarship
Research areas:
- Employing network analytic techniques to visualize changes in:
- Psychopathology symptoms (anxiety, depression, suicidality, conduct disorder),
- And theorized mechanisms of change (emotion regulation, attachment security) in teens during and after their caregivers complete an attachment-based group intervention (Connect).
Timothy van den Brink
mail tsv1@sfu.ca
Department: Political Science
Degree: Doctoral candidate
Scholarships Awarded: Canadian Doctoral Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC) and MITACs Accelerate Grant
Research areas:
- Canadian politics
- Elite discourse
- Policy analysis
- Official language governance
- Conservatism
- Qualitative methods
Ty Bryant
mail tba47@sfu.ca
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Degree: MA
Scholarships Awarded: We Wai Kai First Nation Treaty Scholarship, New Relationship Trust Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC CGS-M, and SSHRC Canada Indigenous Scholars Supplement
Research areas:
- Asian-Indigenous Relations
Vienna C. Lam
mail vienna.lam@sfu.ca
Department: Criminology
Degree: Doctoral candidate
Scholarships Awarded: Joseph Armand Bombardier and SSHRC
Research areas:
- Aquatic forensic taphonomy
- Medicolegal investigations
- Drowning prevention
Faculty Mentors
Please check back regularly as mentors will be added on a continual basis.
Kate Slaney
mail klslaney@sfu.ca
call 778-782-4967
Department: Psychology
Research areas:
- Philosophy of psychological science
- Analysis and critique of empirical methodologies
- Study of scientific practices in psychology
- History/philosophy of psychological measurement
- Discourse practices in psychological science
- Theoretical and applied psychometrics
Maite Taboada
mail mtaboada@sfu.ca
Department: Linguistics
Research areas:
- Linguistics
- Communication
- Cognitive science
- Computing science
- AI
- Language teaching
- Rhetoric
- Writing
- Media
Michael Hathaway
mail michael_hathaway@sfu.ca
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas:
- Global movements such as:
- Environmentalism
- Feminism and Indigenous rights
Questions?
Please contact Kate Slaney fassadgs@sfu.ca.
Looking for awards and funding?
Visit SFU's Graduate Studies webpage. It includes internal & donor funded awards, external & government funded awards, and other sources of funding.