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FASS Three Minute Thesis

One slide…three minutes…cash prizes! Open to all FASS graduate students, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges students to present their thesis and its significance in just three minutes to a general audience. 

If you have any questions regarding the FASS 3MT heat, please email fasssec@sfu.ca.

2025 winners

First Place winner

Madelyn Prevost
PhD in Anthropology
Weaving Threads; Making Worlds

Second Place Winner

Virginia Uhi
MA in Linguistics
Are They Good Enough for You? 

People's Choice Winner

Tatiana Parrish
MA in Political Science
CEDAW and Feminism Pressure Canada to End Femicide

See recap post

Cheer on FASS at the SFU Final

The 2025 FASS Heat has now concluded. Our three winners will move on to the SFU Final on April 10th, 5:30 – 7:30pm at SYRE Theatre 1002 and SYRE Atrium at the SFU Surrey campus.

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Past winners

2024

First Place winner and People's Choice winner

PhD in Law and Forensic Psychology 
Preventing Miscarriages of Justice by Improving Judicial Assessment of Eyewitness Identification Evidence 

Second Place winner (Tied)

Nathan Collins
MA in Global Humanities 
A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Social Photography and the Subject

Second Place winner (Tied)

MA in Linguistics
Harry Potter and the Existential There

See recap post

2023

First Place winner and People's Choice winner


PhD in Linguistics
Dynamic Self- and Other-Assessment of Second Language Speech 

Second Place winner 


MA in Sociology and Anthropology
Victim's Speech-Acts in Transitional Justice Systems

People's Choice winner

Farinaz Rikhtehgaran
MA in Gerontology
Walkable Neighbourhoods for Immigrant Older Adults

See recap post