Study: Young Fraser River Chinook salmon swimming in chemical soup
Juvenile Chinook salmon in the Lower Fraser River estuary are feeding and growing in a slurry of contaminants, from pharmaceuticals…
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Study: Toxic hydrocarbon hotspots in BC coastal sediments, threatening Southern Resident killer whales and Chinook salmon
A new study reveals that toxic hotspots for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in marine sediments exist in parts of the…
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Empowering youth in environmental action
While our planet continues to face pressing environmental issues such as climate change, plastic pollution, and biodiversity loss, youth are…
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Symposium recap: Living Together 2025
Living Together 2025: Connecting housing, social health and resilience convened nearly 200 housing operators and experts, public health professionals, municipal…
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Building Social Connections in Practice
Communities across Canada face growing challenges—climate change, housing affordability, escalating construction costs, loneliness and social isolation, aging populations, and more….
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Tara Fernando shares her thoughts on amenity spaces and the importance of knowledge translation
When I was accepted into the Master of Public Health (MPH) program at SFU, I found a job post for…
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Canadian researchers discover tick repelling chemicals secreted by ants
Researchers from Simon Fraser University have discovered a combination of chemicals secreted by ants that were found to repel ticks….
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North Vancouver active design study
Social connections between neighbours are the building blocks for happier, more trusting, resilient, and supportive communities—and can even bring financial…
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Building social connections: Housing design policies to support wellbeing for all
Hey Neighbour Collective and Happy Cities are co-leading this three-phase project, in partnership with Simon Fraser University. Happy Cities and…
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A Place Like Home: student research symposium
November 15, 2023 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM SFU Vancouver 515 W Hastings Segal Conference Room & Teck Gallery View…
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Cookies, research methods, and building audits
Do you live in multi-unit housing, such as an apartment or condo, and feel like you lack social interactions with…
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How can community housing help us prepare for crisis?
We live in a world where we face unexpected changes and events all the time, yet struggle to be prepared…
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Impact report: Living Together Symposium
Living Together: Connecting housing, social health and resilience was a two-day hybrid symposium of engaging presentations and dialogues about tackling…
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Day two session videos from the Living Together Symposium
Watch these three symposium sessions from June 8 th, the second day of the Living Together Symposium. We had a…
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Living Together: Connecting housing, social well-being and resilience
Tue, 7 Jun 2022, 8:00 AM – Wed, 8 Jun 2022, 4:00 PM PDT Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue…
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How sociable is life in multi-unit rental housing?
Three members of Hey Neighbour Collective’s community of practice – Brightside Community Homes Foundation, Catalyst Community Developments Society and Concert…
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A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: A photovoice exploration into social connections at home
The SFU Research team recently completed “A Picture is Worth 1000 Words”, a photovoice project which explores people’s experiences of…
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Partners’ Webinar Series: Planetary Health in a Post-COVID Future
As we face one of the greatest challenges for public health in several generations with the COVID-19 pandemic, we also have an unprecedented opportunity as governments and citizens prepare for a post-COVID future. Several Eco-health colleagues, SFU Planetary Health Research…
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Converging on Social Innovation Labs
In June, our SHIFT Team joined McConnell Foundation, Radius SFU and a number of other convening partners in Vancouver along with social lab practitioners from across Canada for two days of connecting and learning… …
