Welcome to the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies' Electronic Theses & Dissertation site. These pages are dedicated to help you find all the information you might require in order to format and successfully submit your graduate thesis for examination and publication electronically.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) are prepared as text-based PDF files. ETDs can contain non-text elements such as sound, video, and hypertext links. ETDs are available through Scholarship@Western, Western's digital library repository, and also released to the world-wide web with priority in many search engines, enabling scholars worldwide to locate, search, and download the University of Western Ontario's ETDs.
The most significant benefit is the dramatic increase (50-250%) in citation impact that results from electronic publishing. This leads to increased rewards from universities, in the form of promotion and increased salary, and from granting agencies.
Other benefits include:
- publicity for research - authors of electronic theses become more widely known and their reputations are enhanced
- easy worldwide access to your theses for colleagues and collaborators
- easy worldwide access to theses for job and grant applications
- a raised profile for research institutions
- reduced costs at the point of graduation since there is no need to have multiple copies printed.
For an overview of the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation process at The University of Western Ontario, please refer to any area from our site dedicated to supporting ETD at Western:
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Representation of faces in perirhinal cortex, Edward B. O'Neil
Interstory: A Study of Reader Participation and Networked Narrative in Media Convergence, Elika Ortega Guzman
Corporate Social Responsibility in Canadian Banking a Case Study on the Equator Principles, Ian Osellame
Redesign of Johar: a framework for developing accessible applications, Oladapo Oyebode
Optimisation of the Transesterification Stage of Biodiesel Production using statistical methods, Arnold Paintsil
Adolescents Perceptions of Victims and Perpetrators of Cyberbullying, Jasprit K. Pandori
An Autoethnographical Tapestry of Feminist Reflection on My Journey of a Fitness Model Physique, Stephanie A. Paplinskie
Husserl's Transcendental Idealism and the Problem of Solipsism, Rodney Parker
Out of Alignment: Managing Literacy Assessment Work in the Primary Classroom, Holly Carol Parkinson
Understanding the Relationship between Perception and Production of the Beat, Taylor W. Parrott
Cognitive Activity Support Tools: Design of the Visual Interface, Paul Parsons
Word-Finding Difficulties: Exploring Tip-of-the-Tongue States in Young and Old Adults, Allison J. Partridge
Experimental Modeling of Wind Farm Topography and Canopy, Dan S. Parvu
Atlas-Based Attenuation Correction for PET/MRI, John Christian Patrick
"A Painter's Brush That Also Makes Poems": Contemporary Painting After Northern Song Calligraphy, Andy J. Patton
The Vancouver Asahi Baseball Team and Cultural Acceptance 1920-1941, Christopher M. Pellerin
A Stable Isotope Investigation of Palaeodiet and Residential Mobility During the Integration Period, Quito Basin, Ecuador, Carlie Pennycook
The Impact of Social Integration on The Lived Experience of Resilience Among Women who Lived in Poverty During Childhood, Nedra R. Peter
Selected Cases on the Continuum of First Nations Learning, Julie Peters
Fertility Preservation Technologies for Women: A Feminist Ethical Analysis, Angel Petropanagos
Foreign Women in Latin Literature: The Representation of Boudicca, Kaitlyn Pettigrew
Investigating the Influence of Interface and Vacancy Defects on the Growth of Silicon Quantum Dots in SiO2, John Phelan
Exploring the neural basis of top-down guided action in macaque monkeys, Jessica M. Phillips
Insights into the Function of the FATC Domain of Saccharomyces Cervisiae TRA1 via Mutation and Suppressor Analysis, Samantha A. Pillon