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 2011
Development of a Novel TiO2-polymeric Photocatalyst for Water Purification both under UV and Solar illuminations, Debjani Mukherjee
Finding Faulty Functions From the Traces of Field Failures, Syed Shariyar Murtaza
Coupled heat and water transport in frozen soils, Ranjeet M. Nagare
Numerical Simulation of Tornado-like Vortices, Diwakar Natarajan
Motivational Coaching: Its Efficacy as an Obesity Intervention and a Profile of Professional Coaches, Courtney E. Newnham-Kanas
Client-Provider Relationships in a Community Health Clinic for People Experiencing Homelessness: A Critical Ethnography, Abram Oudshoorn
Thermodynamics, Hydrodynamics and Critical Phenomena in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories, Christopher Pagnutti
Algorithmic Contributions to the Theory of Regular Chains, Wei Pan
Structure and Dynamics of the Membrane Protein Bacteriorhodopsin Studied by Mass Spectrometry, Yan Pan
A phenomenological inquiry into the embodied nature of occupation at end-of-life, Anna Park Lala
Structure-Function Analysis of Enzymes of the Polyisoprenyl-Phosphate Hexose-1-Phosphate Transferase family, Kinnari B. Patel
Title, Joanne Paterson
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies on the Oxidation Processes of Nickel, Chromium and their Alloys, Bradley P. Payne
El Gracioso en el Teatro de Calderón: Un Análisis desde las Humanidades Digitales, Miriam A. Peña-Pimentel
An Investigation of Masked Priming Mechanisms in Binary Classification Tasks, Jason Perry
Carving Cognition at its Joints: Insights from the Interaction between Explicit and Implicit Social Cognition, Kurt R. Peters
Assessing and Improving 4D-CT Imaging for Radiotherapy Applications, Greg Pierce
The Complex Paragenetic History of Basal Negaunee Iron Formation Iron Ores, Tilden Mine, Marquette District, Upper Michigan, Natalie J. Pietrzak
General Education Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Developing "Interventionist" Beliefs and Practices, Michelle Pompeo
Molecular Dynamics Studies of Interactions of Phospholipid Membranes with Dehydroergosterol and Penetrating Peptides, Amir Mohsen Pourmousa Abkenar
Model Socialist Town, Two Decades Later: Contesting the Past in Nowa Huta, Poland, Kinga Pozniak
Investigating Interfacial Reactions of Silver-Containing Films Using Novel Methods, Sarah Danielle Pretty