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This session marks one step towards challenging and dismantling the sometimes problematic centrality of large urban centres in community engaged research. With a focus on the geo-political context of…

Reciprocity is a core value in community engaged research. So, too, is adequately and equitably compensating people for their time and labour. But how this lands down in the work is not often widely…

What horizons are possible when we imagine and enact an approach to community-engaged research that dismantles and stretches beyond the colonial structures in which many institutions and communities…

Many of us do the work we do because we are invested in productively challenging the status quo. This includes forging space to uplift and centre the voices, experiences and expertise of racialized…

Experiences with trauma are part of the lives of many individuals and communities. Trauma can be stigmatizing and isolating, and mainstream culture doesn’t always make space for its existence and its…

This video of the launch of Remaking The Table introduces the team and thinking behind SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi).

Hear from co-directors Am Johal and Stuart R…

Compressive imaging is vital in computational science, engineering and medicine. Its aim is to perform the challenging task of reconstructing images from highly undersampled physical measurements.…

Nowadays, most intelligent systems rely on interacting with humans. Two main functionalities of such systems are the ability to follow their users and to predict their future motions. This thesis…

Horizons offers a space to explore the history and future of community-engaged research (CER). At the broadest level, community-engaged research (CER) is a form of praxis, an exercise in knowledge…

This thesis explores everyday emergencies and looks at the challenges and opportunities that surround in designing and implementing Next Generation 9-1-1 systems. The thesis looks at two stakeholders…

British Columbia has encountered numerous natural disaster events in the last decade. Despite this, and a growing body of evidence showing the number and magnitude of these disasters will only…

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as heat domes and flooding is evidence of British Columbia's lack of effective climate adaptation. One measure to improve the region'…

The use of 3D reconstruction technology in agriculture can offer significant benefits in analyzing fruit quality; however, the complex aggregate shape of fruit bundles such as grapes and the absence…

In this thesis, a method for bias field correction is proposed for Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCT-A) images. The bias field artifact is an intensity nonuniformity present on OCT-A…

Accurately assessing body composition is crucial in identifying health risks associated with high or low levels of body fat. While there are several methods available for measuring fat, some commonly…

The idealized thin current loop is the foundation for cylindrically symmetric applied coil magnetics. The field equations along the coil axis are easy to solve both numerically and analytically,…

Allegory and Intoxication argues that addiction crises in 2010s North America are symptomatic of the heightened ravages and crises of the capitalist value-form. This project reconstructs the critical…

In the northern districts of Paris, many thousands of asylum-seekers and other migrants live in provisional encampments, over 75 of which have been dismantled since 2015. These encampments and the…

Character animation is a core research topic in computer graphics, which studies synthesizing realistic movements for virtual characters. Physics-based character animation utilizes physics simulation…

Despite over 40 years of research and clinical investigation, there is still no vaccine or cure for HIV-1. Highly effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) has dramatically reduced illness due to HIV-1…