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
Development of a Three-Dimensional Image-Guided Needle Positioning System for Small Animal Interventions, Christopher S.R. Waring
Frequency-Dependent Conduction Block In Demyelinating Focal Neuropathies, Brad V. Watson
"Men to the Rescue" - The Influence of Male English Teachers on Boys' Literacy Achievement, Margaret Anne Watson
Security Aspects of Smart Grid Communication, Pubudu E. Weerathunga
Simultaneous radar and video meteors, Robert J. Weryk
Examining the Relationships between Imagery, Sport Motivation, and Athletic Identity in Curling, Nicole Westlund
"Rap is easy, career is the hard part:" analyzing success, longevity and failure within the framework of the hip-hop career, Christopher R. White
School Re-entry Protocols for Children with Acquired Brain Injury, Matt White
Essays on International and Environmental Economics, Jacob Wibe
Social Episodic-Like Memory in the Black-Capped Chickadee (Poecile Atricapillus), Alisha A. Wiechers
Clinical Instructors' Perceptions of Structural and Psychological Empowerment in Academic Nursing Environments, Sandra E. Wiens
Cloning and analysis of RECK during early Xenopus laevis development, Jessica Willson
Multi-Sensor Calibration and Validation of the UWO-PCL Water Vapour Lidar, Robin Wing
Methods for Shape-Constrained Kernel Density Estimation, Mark A. Wolters
Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Intervertebral Disc Prostheses, Elaine Wong
On sensorimotor function and the relationship between proprioception and motor learning, Jeremy D. Wong
Impacts of agricultural disturbance on communities of selected soil fungi (Agaricomycetes), Jessie R. Wong
The Effects of Equity Sensitivity and Teamwork Self-Efficacy on Team Reward Preference, Hayden Jerney Randolph Woodley
Organizational Perceptions and Responses to the Natural Environment, Michael O. Wood
Effect of sledge hockey configuration on sledge hockey performance, Cliff Worden-Rogers
A Homotopy Theory for Diffeological Spaces, Enxin Wu
Essays on Financial Return and Volatility Modeling, Jing Wu
Playing with the Other: The Stories of Mu Xin and Vladimir Nabokov, Meng Wu
Role of ERK5 in Diabetic Vascular Complications, Yuexiu Wu
Development of 3-D Neutronic Kinetic Model and Control for CANDU Reactors, Lingzhi Xia