The objectives of the Research Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on the French-Speaking World are:

• To provide a place for collaborative and/or multidisciplinary research on issues related to French societies in Canada and in the world;
• To provide a special focus for collaborative research on: Social justice and Decolonial approaches to the study of French (first axis); Media and Digital Humanities in French (second axis).
• To provide a place for collaborative and alternative practices – such as artistic and creative collaborations in French or in translation.
• To host research fellows, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students specializing in one of the diverse areas of research on the French-speaking world;
• To organize events and facilitate dissemination of research and ideas on the French-speaking world in the university as well as outside the university, in collaboration with local French-speaking communities and institutions;
• To ensure that, in keeping with SFU strategic research plans, the research in French studies and on the French-speaking world which is led in SFU informs community discourse on education in French.