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
The Role of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 Beta in Skeletal Development, J. Ryan Gillespie
Modelling of the Western University Campus Electrical Network for Infrastructural Interdependencies in a Disaster Response Network Enables Platform, Gagandeep S. Gill
Water Treatment Using Advanced Oxidation Processes: Application Perspectives, Charles R. Gilmour
Ethnic Identity and the Perception of Facial Profile Aesthetics: A Preliminary Study, Paul Michael Glasser
Do women engage in self-protection because of violence generally or sexual violence specifically? An analysis based on the 2009 General Social Survey, Pamela R. Glatt
Shame and the Sharing of Existence, Noel A. Glover
Single-Stage Power Electronic Converters with Combined Voltage Step-Up/Step-Down Capability, Navid Golbon
Structural and Bioinformatic Analysis of the b Subunit of F-ATP synthase, Ardeshir Goliaei
Electronic Health Record Regulation in Canada: What the Patient Experience Reveals about the Pursuit of Legislative Harmonization, Patricia M. Goodman
Flexible Workplace Practices in Small IT Firms: A Multiple Case Study, Catherine E. Gordon
Securing Populations: Foucault and the Cartography of Natural Bodies, Andrew A.T. Grant
Motor Control of Exercise that Emphasizes Speed Post-stroke, Vicki L. Gray
An Experimental Investigation on the Flow Behaviour in a Transpired Air Collector, David Greig
Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony, Antony N. Gremaud
The Effects of Exercise Training on Indices of Cardiovascular Autonomic Neuropathy in STZ-Induced Type 1 Diabetic Rats Treated with Insulin, Kenneth N. Grise
The Relative Influences of Knowledge, Beliefs and Preferences on Adherence to Asthma Medication, Naomi J. Gryfe Saperia
The Effects of a Home Based Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Program on Balance Among Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease, Michelle L. Gu
Electrokinetic Dewatering of Oil Sands Tailings, Yu Guo
Genome Profiling of Two Strains of the Green Alga Chlamydomnas Raudensis, Rajesh Kumar Gupta
Protein Body Formation in Stable Transgenic Plants of Nicotiana Tabacum Expressing Elastin-Like Polypeptide and Hydrophobin Fusion Proteins, Sonia P. Gutierrez
A new algorithm for de novo genome assembly, Md. Bahlul Haider
Changes in the hydrological regime in the Upper Bow and Upper Athabasca Watersheds during the 20th century, Heather A. Haines
In the Fullness of Time: M. M. Bakhtin, In Discourse and in Life, James C. Hall