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Established in 2009 - a faculty with related but
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• 4 schools + 4 campuses
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Includes Master’s of Digital Media at Centre for
Digital Media
• 87 continuing faculty
• 279 graduate students (excluding MDM)
• 4 Research Chairs (3 CRCs + Dena Wosk
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Numerous labs, research centres & institutes
Partnerships and collaborations across SFU, with
various communities, and in industry
Faculty of Communication, Art + Technology
•Research intensive units
•Close connection between research and teaching
•Diverse research traditions and protocols
•High profile researchers
•Extensive collaborations across the university, with
wider communities, and with industry
•Variable levels of external funding
•Potential for capitalizing on certain strands of
research and teaching
•Traditions of critical and creative engagement,
responsibility to communities, and curiosity-led
research
Faculty of Communication, Art + Technology
Total
r e s e a r c h funding
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14,700,000
Faculty of Communication, Art + Technology
FCAT & SFU collaborations
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Academic Community Engagement (Laba)
Academic Women (Murray)
Asia-Canada Program (Jin, Zhao)
Audain Gallery (O’Brian, Pratt)
Autism Lab (DiPaola)
Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute (BCNI) (DiPaola)
Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Research (Hennessy)
Burnaby Mountain College (R. Anderson)
Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing (Publishing, English, SFU Library, MDM)
Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures (Iskandar)
Centre for Dialogue (R. Anderson)
Centre for Policy Studies of Cultures and Communities (Anthropology, Communication,
English, GSWS, Humanities)
Centre for the Study of Print and Media Cultures (English, Communication, Publishing,
SIAT, SFU Library)
Ciber Lab (Pasquier)
Cognitive Science Lab (DiPaola, Riecke)
Development and Sustainability Program (R. Anderson)
Digital Humanities (Alperin, Hennessy, Fisher, Maxwell)
Gender, Sexuality + Women’s Studies (Beale, Dickinson, Druick, Levitin, McAllister,
Murray)
Genomics (Chow-White, Feenberg)
Graduate Liberal Studies (McCarron, Pavsek)
Institute for the Humanities
Institute for Performance Studies (Daniel, Dickinson)
Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Project (Hennessy)
IRMACS (Bartram, DiPaola, Fisher)
Labour Studies Program (Brophy)
Latin American Studies Program (Reilly)
Office of Research Ethics (Chow-White, Hennessy)
SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Hennessy)
Teaching and Learning Centre (Hatala, Laba)
Faculty of Communication, Art + Technology
Established in 1973, the
School of Communication
has a long-standing internationally-recognized tradition of
critical, interdisciplinary approaches to the study of media
and technology with a commitment to social theory and
political economy.
•27 continuing faculty
•106 graduate students: 54 PhDs; 34 Master’s; 18
Double MA (Fall 2014)
• Global Communication
• Community Engagement
• Critical and Applied Media
• Technological Impacts, Designs, and Assessments
School of Communication
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Applied Communication & Technology (ACT)
Lab (Feenberg)
Assessment of Technology in Context Design
(ATIC) Lab (Balka)
Centre for Policy Research in Science and
Technology (CPROST) (P. Anderson, ChowWhite, Jin)
Centre for Policy Studies of Cultures and
Communities (CPCC) (Beale, McAllister,
Murray)
Emergency Preparedness Information
Exchange Lab (P. Anderson)
Genomics and Network Analysis Lab ( GeNA)
(Chow-White)
Global Media Monitoring and Analysis Lab
(Zhao)
Media Analysis Lab (Kline)
Sonic Research Studio (Truax)
Telematics Research Lab (P. Anderson)
School of Communication
Faculty in the
School for the Contemporary Arts
are internationally recognized for research excellence. The
majority of the faculty are established working artists, artistscholars, and scholars. In general the artists are creators—
choreographers, composers, filmmakers, lighting designers,
visual artists—as well as performers, directors, and
dramaturges. Scholarly research centres on cinema and
media theory, art history, and visual culture.
•28 continuing faculty
•34 graduate students (21 MFA, 13 MA) (Fall 2014)
School for the Contemporary Arts
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Cinema Studies
Contemporary Dance
Electroacoustic Music
Film Production, Film Studies
Music Composition
Performance Studies
Theatre Performance
Theatre Design
Visual Art
Visual Culture Studies
contemporary practice
interdisciplinary
collaboration
School of Interactive Arts and
Technology is explicitly interdisciplinary.
The
It combines the science of human experience, the
analysis of media and culture, the creation of original and
experimental works of art and design, and the conception
and implementation of new interactive technologies.
SIAT aims to understand and transform the digitallymediated technologies and experiences that increasingly
shape our lives.
•27 Continuing faculty (19 research + 8 lecturers)
•98 Graduate students: 62 PhD, 36 Master’s (24 MSc;
12 MA) (Fall 2014)
School of Interactive Arts + Technology
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Advanced Media Research Group (Bizzocchi, Pasquier,
Eigentfeldt, Calvert)
BioV Research Group (Shaw)
Computational Design Lab (Woodbury, Erhan)
Connections Lab (Neustaedter)
Everyday Design Studio (Wakkary)
Human-Centred Systems for Sustainable Living Group
(HCSSL) (Bartram, Woodbury)
ISpace Research Group (Riecke)
Interaction Design Research Center (Wakkary,
Neustaedter, Antle)
Interactive Visualization (iViz) Lab (DiPaola)
Making Culture Lab (Hennessy)
Metacreation Lab (Pasquier)
School of Interactive Arts + Technology
Publishing @ SFU includes the Master
of Publishing Professional Program, an
undergraduate minor and workshops
•Analysis of Trade Publishing
•Evolution of Scholarly Publishing
•Publishing History
•Digital Humanities
•Design Research & Pedagogy
•4 continuing faculty (Degrees: Education)
•35 Master’s of Publishing (MPub) students
•2 PhD students (via SAR)
Publishing @ SFU
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Association of Canadian Publishers
Bath Spa University
Canadian Association of Learned Journals
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Canada Council for the Arts
Department of Canadian Heritage
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (U Vic)
UBC’s Magic Lab
EBound Canada
Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (U Vic)
Emily Carr University
Integrating New Knowledge Environments (SSHRC)
Network of Digital Humanities Scholars (SFU, UBC)
Provincial Book and Magazine Publishers Associations
Public Knowledge Project @ SFU Library
Key Collaborations and Partnerships
The Masters of Digital
for Digital Media
Media Professional Program at the Centre
Research areas
• Games/Gamification
• Pedagogy & Digital Media
• Social inclusion (& exclusion) of groups by digital media
• Interactive narrative, storytelling
• Numerous (applied) client driven projects
• 3 continuing faculty members
• 52 Master’s students (Fall 2015)
Master’s in Digital Media
School of Communications
www.sfu.ca/communication
School for the Contemporary
Arts
www.sfu.ca/sca/
School of Interactive
Arts and
Technology
www.sfu.ca/siat
Masters of Publishing
publishing.sfu.ca/
Centre for Digital Media (MDM)
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Faculty of Communication, Art + Technology