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After nearly three decades spent teaching French immersion kindergarten, I found myself in a personal and professional life crisis during the school year of 2009-2010. I suddenly did not know anymore…

This project supports the Cumulative Effects Management (CEM) Program of the Metlakatla First Nation by preparing an inventory of recommendations from past projects and creating a project management…

Snow algae grow on the surface of alpine and polar snowfields in summer, forming blooms known as "red snow" or "watermelon snow". Snow algal blooms reduce albedo, thereby…

Pell equations are Diophantine equations of the form x² − Dy² = 1. For fixed D, all positive solutions are generated by powers of a single solution, known as the fundamental solution. In the first…

The development of an accurate, efficient, portable, and affordable method for identifying breast cancer is critical for both early detection and improved prognosis. Medical imaging modalities play a…

This study examines the identities, feelings of group belonging and accents of British Columbia (BC) French immersion high school students. Through a mixed methodology, web-surveys and recorded in-…

Over the past two decades, there has been tremendous growth in winter backcountry recreation, challenging the traditional ways in which recreationists are understood, characterized, and communicated…

This paper presents a phenomenology of artistic painting as an anticipatory process. I propose that the artist seeks to establish a state of equilibrium in a model of self-awareness expressed and…

In this article I initiate an inquiry into the artistic act and its relation to self-expression in an age of computational virtuality, a time when subjectivity is being subsumed by ubiquity and its…

Recent work in immersive analytics suggests benefits for systems that support work across both 2D and 3D data visualizations, i.e., cross-virtuality analytics systems. Here, I introduce HybridAxes,…

This dissertation draws connections between non-Indigenous settlement in BC and urban renewal by conducting an interdisciplinary critical place analysis of the neighbourhood of Strathcona from the…

Counter-Clouds (CCs) is a sculptural exploration of the cultural phenomenon of "rolling coal" or "coal rolling" in contemporary North America. This technique of counter-protest…

This research paper explores Indigenous health and wellbeing, the importance of Indigenous health sovereignty, and the impact of historical pandemics and the COVID-19 pandemic on Indigenous peoples…

For about two decades, many studies have shown the effectiveness of Virtual Reality (VR) as an alternative intervention for pain reduction in patients with acute and chronic pain. One of the possible…

In this paper we document the development of the Climate, Land, Energy, and Water systems (CLEWs) Global open modelling tool. With CLEWs Global, we seek to increase the accessibility of multi-…

Join lawyer, civil rights activist, politician, and former Minister of Health Canada, Ujjal Dosanjh, as he launches his new novel The Past is Never Dead.
This book launch, co-presented by SFU…

Bruce Mutsvairo, Professor of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, and a 2023 SFU CERi researcher-in-residence, sits down with Am Johal to discuss his journey from journalism into…

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Ali Kazimi, director and winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts.
Ali shares with Am how he got…

On this episode of Below the Radar, Angela Aujla, visual artist and Professor of Sociology at Georgian College, sits down with Am Johal.
Angela shares her career transition into the visual…

In this thesis, I explore legged agility with a primary focus on controlling external ground reaction forces produced by our legs. I conduct empirical studies and develop models to understand how we…