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
Friendly Antagonism in Humorous Interactions: Explorations of Prosocial Teasing, David J. Podnar
Are Visual Texture-selective Areas Recruited During Haptic Texture Discrimination?, Samantha K. Podrebarac
Reorganization of inhibitory synapses in experimental epilepsy, Emily J. Pollock
Impact Craters as Habitats for Life: Endolithic Colonization of Shocked Gneiss from the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Canada, Alexandra Janine Pontefract
Exploring Teachers’ Understanding of Equity and Inclusive Education and Their Pedagogical Choices, Kelley G. Porteous Jones
"Smile and Carry On:" Canadian Cavalry on the Western Front, 1914-1918, Stephanie E. Potter
Objective and Subjective Evaluation of Wideband Speech Quality, Nazanin Pourmand
Novel Thiophene Supported N,N'-Chelating Ligands and Their Main Group Compounds, Jacquelyn T. Price
A Variability Study of the Typical Red Supergiant Antares A, Teznie J D Pugh
The Relationship Between Quality of Parks and Playgrounds and Park-Based Physical Activity in Children, Hammad Ali Qazi
Local Ideal Point Method for GIS-based Multicriteria Analysis: A Case Study in London, Ontario, Xue Qin
Cholesterol-Mediated Dysfunction of Surfactant Effects of Surfactant Protein-A and Diet-Induced Hypercholesterolemia, Joshua Qua Hiansen
A Novel Mixed Metallic Oxygen Carrier for Chemical Looping Combustion: Preparation, Characterization and Kinetic Modeling, Mohammad Rezwanul Quddus
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Iron in Early Multiple Sclerosis at 3 Tesla, Matthew P. Quinn
Co-Ownership and Environmental Performance, Robert R. Raffety
Prognosis and Movement Patterns in Patients After Rotator Cuff Repair, Jayaprakash Raman
Producción de la Concordancia en Español por Hablantes de Náhuatl, Alma P. Ramirez-Trujillo
The Effects of Virtual Rehabilitation Following Acquired Brain Injury: A Feasibility Study, Taylor L. Randall
The Local Food Environment of Children in London Ontario: A Methodological Comparison, Claudia Rangel
Design and Development of a Novel Expanding Pedicle Screw for Use in the Osteoporotic Lumbar Spine, Parham Rasoulinejad
Differentials in Physical Health Outcomes among Children in Single-Parent and Dual-Parent Families, Jennifer Lynn Rayner
Electrochemical and Surface Compositional Studies on Uranium Dioxide, Mayuri Razdan
Understanding First Nations Young Adults' Health Literacy, Ebony Rempel
Effects of Biodiesel Concentration on Microbial Deterioration of Polyethylene in a Simulated Fuel Storage Tank, Juan Manuel Restrepo-Florez