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Congratulations to Political Science professor, Dr. Mark Pickup on winning the 2025 Research Excellence Award in the Social Sciences. The Research Excellence Award is given to recognize Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences researchers who have produced sustained and impactful scholarly output and achieved national and international recognition throughout their careers.

SFU Political Science professor, Dr. Mark Pickup, is the successful recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant for his research project, ‘Norms-based Interventions to Support the Canadian Democratic Belief System’. This grant is given to support the excellence of emerging and established scholars, in the field of social sciences and humanities, with research initiatives of two to five years.

Political Science professor, Dr. Radoslav Dimitrov is currently attending the UN Climate Change Conference (SB62) in Bonn, Germany. He is representing SFU as an academic observer and is conducting research on the implementation of the Paris Agreement and interviewing diplomats. The conference is in preparation of COP-30, a larger conference scheduled for Brazil in November 2025.