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
Self-Reported Racism, Transphobia, Their Intersection and Impact on Past-Year HIV Related Sexual Risk Behaviour, Roxanne M. Longman Marcellin
Trademarks and Geographical Indications: Conflict or Coexistence?, Melissa A. Loucks
Understanding the Subjective Norms Surrounding Noise Exposure and Hearing Conservation in Children, Jill E. Lowther
Familiality of Auditory Evoked Potentials: Preliminary Investigation of the Auditory Brainstem Response and Late Latency Cortical Response, Matthew B. Lucas
Neuroprotective Effects of Long-term Endurance Training on the Cortical Autonomic Network in the Aging Brain, Torri A. Luchyshyn
Charles Ives and Musical Borrowing, Allison C. Luff
It's Complicated: Romantic Breakups and Their Aftermath on Facebook, Veronika A. Lukacs
Identification of a Molecular Opiate-Addiction Memory Switch in the Basolateral Amygdala, Danika C.A. Lyons
Population-Based Placental Weight Ratio Distributions and Determinants of Placental Weight Ratios, Erin M. Macdonald
Late Quaternary Histories of Lakes Huron and Michigan: A Stable Isotope Investigation of Sediment Cores and Modern Biogenic Carbonates, Rebecca A. Macdonald
Studies on Molecular Sieve Crystallization and Heteroatomic Substitution, Adam R. MacIntosh
Early child care and adiposity at kindergarten entry, Jessica D. Mackle
Metallogenic Setting of High-Grade Iron Ores, Mary River District, North Baffin Island, Nunavut, Meghan E. MacLeod
Women's Engagements with Christianity in Oksapmin, Papua New Guinea, Angela MacMillan
The role of non-canonical Wnt/planar cell polarity signalling in breast cancer progression, Connor D. MacMillan
The Spatiality of Housing Price Risk and Return in The Greater Toronto Area, Andrew Spencer MacPhail Barnes
Underemployment, Unemployment, and Mental Health, Heather L. Maddocks
Disinfection of Low UV Transmittance Fluids: Fundamentals and Applications, Housyn Mahmoud
Electrohydrodynamic Enhancement of Heat Transfer and Mass Transport in Gaseous Media, Bulk Dielectric Liquids and Dielectric Thin Liquid Films, Seyed Reza Mahmoudi
Strucutural, Chemical and Bacteriological Characterization of the Rhizosphere of Zea Mays Grown in Metal-Contaminated Soil, Nahed Nasser Mahrous
A Use-Wear Analysis of Gravers from Paleo-Indian Archaeological Sites in Southern Ontario, Monica S. Maika
Nanomechanics of Electrospun Nanofibres for Tissue Engineering of the Tympanic Membrane, Sara Makaremi
Sexual Trafficking in the Canadian Context: Exploring the Political Landscape, Examining Discourse, and Identifying Health Issues among Women with Lived Experience, Hoda Malakouti-Nejad