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FASS Research
FASS research faculty members are fearless, innovative, and collaborative, continuously contributing to research and development. Our nationally and globally renowned scholars ask complex questions, explore society's critical issues, and continuously push boundaries through their research and community collaborations.
As one of British Columbia鈥檚 research universities, research is at the core of SFU鈥檚 identity and is a foundational pillar of the faculty. FASS encompasses many highly-ranked departments, programs, and scholars with national and international visibility. FASS faculty members secure considerable external funding each year and this has been increasing year over year for a decade. FASS is a highly visible, engaged faculty with strong policy and public connections, both locally and globally.
Faculty member support
Centres and Institutes
FASS is home to a variety of robust research centres and institutes investigating topics from mental health policy to labour research.
Labs and Groups
Self-designated groups of researchers working together on a particular field of research; this usually involves a physical space where members meet and conduct experiments.
Scholars-in-Residence
FASS offers a number of scholars-in-residence, visiting scholars, and fellowships that seek to connect world-class scholars with the community.
Accomplishments
Our faculty are on the cutting edge of research and innovation continuously contributing to national and international research and development.
Strategic Research Plan
The FASS 2024-2029 Strategic Research Plan (SRP) explains how the Faculty will use resources to support research, what its objectives are in supporting research, and what specific areas of strength or emerging excellence the Faculty intends to support.
We encourage you to also read SFU's Strategic Research Plan as it informs FASS' SRP.
Leading Research Areas
Enhancing research excellence Faculty-wide means supporting individual faculty members, departments and programs in their goals and also building research communities and clusters across FASS. Meeting our research objectives require initiatives focused on nurturing and strengthening the following eight research areas:
Indigeneity, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Resurgence
Environmental Social Science and Humanities
Intersectionality, Identity, and Inequality
Technology, Ethics, and the Human Factor
Knowledges and Methods / Data Science and Epistemology
Markets and Migrants
Peace, Human Security, Violence, and Anti-Violence
Medical Humanities and Social Sciences
2024-2025 FASS Research Advisory Group
The research advisory group is composed of prominent researchers covering a wide range of expertise, with the role of advising the Dean's office on broad research-related initiatives.
- Kathleen Akins (Philosophy; Cognitive Science)
- Nadine Attewell (Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Global Asia)
- Eric Beauregard (Criminology)
- Nicolas Kenny (History)
- Dimitrios Krallis (Global Humanities)
- Tamir Moustafa (International Studies)
- Deanna Reder (English; Indigenous Studies)
- Kendra Strauss (Sociology and Anthropology; Labour Studies)
- Maite Taboada (Linguistics)
- Travers (Sociology and Anthropology)
