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3 Minute Thesis
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges graduate students to present their thesis and its significance in just three minutes and one slide.
President's Dream Colloquium
The President's Dream Colloquium brings leading thinkers to SFU and provides an annual forum for intensive interdisciplinary exchange amongst faculty and students.
Your Career Compass
The Your Career Compass workshop series helps graduate students navigate their career options inside or outside of academia.
Book a 1:1 career coaching session to support your career exploration, job search, portfolio development, or future education plans. Coach: Amrit Mundy, Career Education Specialist, Career and Volunteer Services, SFU.
Schedule your session today on myExperience*, SFU鈥檚 platform for career appointments, events, jobs, and volunteer opportunities.
*After logging in, you can find 1:1 Grad student career appointments under the Career/Appointment Calendar in the left-hand menu. Be sure to add your appointment to your calendar!
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Location
In-person & online
More Events for Grad Students
On Campus
- Connecting the Dots | SFU Vancouver 鈥� Harbour Centre 3050 | October 2025 - April 2026, First Wednesday of each month, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Off Campus
- | BCCIE | Nov 19, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. | Online
This session presents the co-creation of a Collaborative Online Indigenous Intercultural Learning (COIIL/VE) Pathway, developed with Indigenous partners across five BC institutions. Grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and aligned with the SDGs, the pathway explores what it means to be Indigenous-serving through curriculum internationalization.
- | Program fee: $3000 CAD | 4-day onsite Symposium (April 27鈥�30, 2026) + online workshops and discussions | by Dec 12
TUTOR-PHC or Transdisciplinary Understandings and Training on Research 鈥� Primary Health Care, is a one-year, pan-Canadian interdisciplinary research capacity building program that has been training primary health care researchers and decision-makers from family medicine, nursing, psychology, epidemiology, social work, occupational therapy, education, policy and many other disciplines since 2003.
- Mitacs Professional Development Workshops from mastering the elevator pitch, to leadership, project management, and more! Check out their workshop dates from November 2024 through January 2025 by downloading the Excel sheet. .
Ongoing
- Indigenous Student Support; Jennifer Reandy is available for counselling support for Indigenous students from Tuesday to Friday.
- Thriving in your role as a TA/TM Online Course: gain resilience skills, identify boundaries in your role as a TA/TM helping students, and overview conditions for well-being in learning environments
- Instructional Skills Workshops (Various dates and deadlines for spring and summer)
- SFU Research Ethics Board runs weekly remote help sessions
- The , available to entrepreneurs in the SFU Community, allows you to connect with mentors at all three SFU Campuses.
- Health & Counselling has a recorded/asynchronous version of their seminar about anxiety and depression. Download and print out the presentation slides and resources.