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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鈥檙e 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.
Jade Stobbart
mail jstobbar@sfu.ca
Department: Psychology
Degree: MA (Developmental Psychology)
Scholarships Awarded: CIHR CGS-M
Research areas:
- Neurodevelopmental disabilities
- Autism
- Social attention
Marissa Traversa
mail marissa_traversa@sfu.ca
Department: Psychology
Degree: Doctoral candidate (Social Psychology, IRSJ Lab)
Scholarships Awarded: SSHRC CGS-M, SSHRC CGS-D, SPSSI Grant-in-aid, and SPSSI Clara Mayo Grant
Research areas:
- How the contentious practice of cancel culture can be collectively validating for groups experiencing harm
Miranda Chang
mail miranda_chang@sfu.ca
Department: Psychology
Degree: Doctoral candidate (Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology Track)
Scholarships Awarded: CIHR CGS-M and NSERC CGS-D
Research areas:
- Human memory
- Hippocampal-dependent processes
- Cognitive decline
- Neurodegenerative diseases
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
Natasha Usenko
mail natasha_usenko@sfu.ca
Department: Psychology
Degree: MA (Law and Forensic Track, Clinical Psychology)
Scholarships Awarded: SSHRC CGS-M, 丁香园AV Special Graduate Research Fellowship, 丁香园AV Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship
Research areas:
- Serious and violent offending
- Sexual offending
- Psychopathic personality
- Risk assessment and management
Nathaniel (Nathan) Johnson
mail njj2@sfu.ca
Department: Psychology
Degree: PhD (Developmental Psychology)
Scholarships Awarded: CIHR CGS-D
Research areas:
- Mindfulness applied through a developmental lens
- Mindful parenting
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
Sam Freeze
mail samuel_freeze@sfu.ca
Department: Psychology
Degree: MA and PhD (Clinical Psychology)
Scholarships Awarded: SSHRC CSG-M, SSHRC CSG-D, and British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
Research areas:
- Forensic psychology
Samantha Mason
mail samantha_mason@sfu.ca
Department: Psychology
Degree: MA (Clinical Psychology, Forensics)
Scholarships Awarded: SSHRC CGS-M and Reasons for Hope Grant (University of Toronto)
Research areas:
- Forensic clinical psychology
- Psychopathology
- Suicide
- Psychological assessment
Samantha Teichman
mail steichma@sfu.ca
Department: Gerontology
Degree: PhD
Scholarships Awarded: SSHRC CGS-D
Research areas:
- Families over the life course
- Death and dying
- Communication technologies as care
Serena Shukla
mail serena_shukla@sfu.ca
Department: Psychology
Degree: MA (Developmental psychology)
Scholarships Awarded: CIHR
Research areas:
- Parenting
- Immigrant families
- Culture
- Child psychopathology
Sharon Sa
mail sharon_sa@sfu.ca
Department: Public Policy
Degree: MA
Scholarships Awarded: SSHRC CGS-M
Research areas:
- Policy analysis
- Intersection between climate and health
- Planetary health
- Wildfires and emergency management
Shelbie Anderson
mail shelbiea@sfu.ca
Department: Psychology
Degree: MA (Law and Forensic Psychology - Experimental)
Scholarships Awarded: Joseph Armand Bombardier, SSHRC CGS-D, and the Nelson Mandela Award
Research areas:
- Eyewitness memory
- Interview technique
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: SSHRC CGS-D 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: SSHRC CGS-D, Joseph Armand Bombardier, Provost Prize of Distinction, Mitacs GlobaLink, P.E.O. Scholar Award, Irving K. Barber One World International Scholarship
Research areas:
- Aquatic forensic taphonomy
- Medicolegal investigations
- Drowning prevention
Looking for awards and funding?
Visit 丁香园AV's Graduate Studies webpage. It includes internal & donor funded awards, external & government funded awards, and other sources of funding.
Questions?
Please contact Kate Slaney fassadgs@sfu.ca.
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