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
Reliability and validity of knee moments: 3D gait analysis in subjects with and without knee osteoarthritis, Sara E. Richardson
Profiles of Children and Youth Displaying Inappropriate Sexual Behaviours: Relevance for Assessment for Sexual Offending Patterns, Julia M. L. Rick
The Influence of Physical Education Teachers' Beliefs on Secondary School-Based Physical Activity Opportunities: A Case Study of One Ontario Public School, Gregory D. Rickwood
International returnees and the capturing of foreign knowledge by emerging market firms, Michael Joseph Dominic Roberts
Reactions of Platinum Complexes with Dimethylamine-borane, Shawn M. Robinson
Effects of exogenous androgens on parental care behaviour in male bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus), Chandra M.C. Rodgers
Out of Order: Thinking Through Robin Collyer, Discontent and Affirmation (1973-1985), Kevin A. Rodgers
Photocalytic Degradation of Malic Acid Under Thin Coated TiO2, Vanessa Silveira Rodgher
Miscegenation in the Marvelous: Race and Hybridity in the Fantasy Novels of Neil Gaiman and China Miéville, Nikolai Rodrigues
Antropofagia and Constructive Universalism: A Diptych, Aarnoud Rommens
Are Offence-Focused Correctional Rehabilitation Programs Affecting Inmates' Executive Cognitive Functions?, Erin H. Ross
On the One Hand and On the Other: The Effect of Embodying Balance and Uncertainty Orientation on the Confirmation Bias, Jeffrey Rotman
Online Social Breast-Working: Representations of Breast Milk Sharing in the 21st Century, Cari L. Rotstein
Identifying Gait Abnormalities in Patients with Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome, Brook A. Russell
Methodological Challenges and Clinical Applications of Hair Cortisol Analysis, Evan W. Russell
Parametric Study on a Novel Waste Heat Recovery System, Ghaleb Rustom Abdul Sater
Simultaneous particle agglomeration and attrition in a high temperature fluidized bed, Mithun Saha
How does gene flow limit local adaptation at a species range-edge? An artificial selection Drosophila model, Justin P. Saindon
Adherence to Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care: The Case of Post-Stroke Depression, Katherine L. Salter
Women in Science and Engineering: The Impact of Gender Equity Policies in Mexican Higher Education, Elida Sanchez Cruz
Experimental Investigation of the Fluid Temperature Field and the Thermal Performance of Insert Devices in a Flat-Plate Solar Collector, Gurveer Singh Sandhu
Nucleoredoxin and Wnt signaling in F9 cells, Leanne Sandieson
Characterization of novel ichnofossils in meteorite impact glass from the Ries impact structure, Germany, Haley M. Sapers
Consistent Density Scanning and Information Extraction From Point Clouds of Building Interiors, Kuldeep Kumar Sareen