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 2014
Examining Children's Perceptions and Use of Their Neighbourhood Built Environments: A Novel Participatory Mapping Approach, Stephen Fitzpatrick
Transnational Conversations: The New Yorker and Canadian Short Story Writers, Nadine Fladd
The Application of Novel Donor Acceptor Cyclopropanes in the Synthesis of Linearly Fused Tricyclic Triazoles, Michelle E. Flisar
Peptidomimetic GHS-R1a Agonists as PET Imaging Agents for Prostate Cancer, Milan M. Fowkes
Automated Image Interpretation for Science Autonomy in Robotic Planetary Exploration, Raymond Francis
Calmly Coping: A Motivational Interviewing via Co-Active Life Coaching (MI-via-CALC) Intervention For University Students Suffering From Stress, Rebecca R. Fried
Effects of Reduced Muscular Strength on Running Kinematics Relating to the Planus Foot, Adam D. Froats
Characterization of Fine Powders and Development of Processes for Powder Coatings, Jing Fu
Reporting Sexual Violence in School: Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitude and Behaviours, Ronit Futerman
Our Stories: Inuit Teachers Create Counter Narratives and Disrupt the Status Quo, Dawn E L Fyn
A Wishy-Washy, Sort-of-Feeling: Episodes in the History of the Wishy-Washy Aesthetic, Amy Gaizauskas
Valuation and Risk Measurement of Guaranteed Annuity Options under Stochastic Environment, Huan Gao
Social immunity and the expression of immune-related genes in the Eastern subterranean termite, Qi Gao
Adaptive relay techniques for OFDM-based cooperative communication systems, Xin Gao
The Clinic Narrative: A Multiple Case Study of Integrated Knowledge Translation and Equity-Oriented Primary Health Care, Christine A. Garinger
A Health Promotion Perspective On Transitioning Into Retirement, Catherine P. Gelinas
A comparison of community composition analyses for the assessment of responses to wood-ash soil amendment by free-living nematodes, Paul B.L. George
Numerical Modeling of Deformation, Oscillation, Spreading and Collision Characteristics of Droplets in an Electric Field, Osameh Ghazian
The Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure of Moral Orientation, Erica A. Giammarco
How attention and beat perception modulate neural entrainment to rhythm, Aaron WC Gibbings
Development of an In-Vitro Passive and Active Motion Simulator for the Investigation of Shoulder Function and Kinematics, Joshua W. Giles
Statistical Summaries in Action: Evidence from the Antisaccade Task, Caitlin Gillen
Peat as an Archive of Remote Mercury Deposition in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada, William James Goacher