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 2012
Watching the games: Critical media literacy and students’ abilities to identify and critique the politics of sports, Raúl J. Feliciano Ortiz
Frontiers, Borders, Boundaries: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the New York City Reception of La fanciulla del West, Kathryn Marie Fenton
A geobiological investigation of the Mazon Creek concretions of northeastern Illinois, mechanisms of formation and diagenesis, Andrea S. Fernandes
Role of IL-10 in the Immune Response to Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Carriage, Teresa Fernandez Plaza
Measuring and Understanding Distal and Proximal Determinants of Mentoring Relationship Quality in Big Brothers Big Sisters Community-based Programs, Annalise L. Ferro
Quantification of bone and cement strains surrounding a distal ulnar implant with varying cement-stem interface conditions, Sayward R. Fetterly
The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, Nicolas Fillion
The Problem of the Penumbra: Elementary School Principals' Exercise of Discretion in Student Disciplinary Issues, Nora M. Findlay
Fighting, Screaming, and Laughing for an Audience: Stars, Genres, and the Question of Constructing a Popular Anglophone Canadian Cinema in the Twenty First Century, Sean C. Fitzpatrick
Hyperpolarized Noble Gas Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Dynamic Spectroscopy For Investigation of Rat Models of Lung Inflammation, Matthew S. Fox
Modeling Oxygen Transport in Three-Dimensional Capillary Networks, Graham M. Fraser
Game Challenge: A Factorial Analysis Approach, Ian J. Fraser
Wireless Telemetry System for Implantable Sensors, Kyle G. Fricke
Hannah Arendt and Feminist Agency, Katherine N. Fulfer
Baroque Worlds of the 21st Century, Xavier Gamboa
Photocatalytic Reactors for Air Treatment: Energy Efficiencies and Kinetic Modeling, Juan M. Garcia Hernandez
Exercise and pregnancy: Developing effective intervention strategies and improving psychological well-being, Anca Gaston
Environmental Physiology of Flight in Migratory Birds, Alexander R. Gerson
Introduced Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Lake Huron: do they spawn at the right time?, Meghan T. Gerson
An investigation into earthquake ground motion characteristics in Japan with emphasis on the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku earthquake, Hadi Ghofrani