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
Contextual Anomaly Detection Framework for Big Sensor Data, Michael Hayes
‘First Among Equals:’ The Development of Preponderant Federalisms in Upper Canada and Ontario to 1896, Daniel H. Heidt
Exposure to Environmental Contaminants and Stress as Determinants of Health in Three Communities: Walpole Island and Attawapiskat First Nations and Naivasha, Kenya, Deirdre Phaedra Henley
Producing Undecidability: Placing History in the Work of Jacques Rancière, Scott Herder
Unmasking the Protester: The Meanings and Myths of Collective Civil Resistance Movements in African American and Polish Postresistance Prose Fiction, Agnieszka Herra
Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of Gold Nanoclusters, Mahdi Hesari
Functional role of the striatum in stimulus-response learning: Evidence from functional MRI and patients with Parkinson's disease, Nole M. Hiebert
Three Models for Educating for Empathy and Humanization through Values Dialogue in Secondary School Classes, Adam J. Hill
Investigating Barriers to Access and Delivery of Palliative Care for Persons with Dementia in London, Ontario, Emily M. Hill
The Late Quaternary Paleolimnology of Lake Ontario, Ryan Hladyniuk
What Lies Behind: Speculations on the Real and the Willful, Barbara Hobot
Effect of Photoperiod on Redox Regulation of Phenotypic Plasticity and Cellular Growth in Chlorella vulgaris, Lauren E. Hollis
Bone Sialoprotein and Osteopontin Mediate Bone Development, Erik Martin Holm
Primary health service use by mothers and children from London-Middlesex, Ontario, Catherine Holtz
Theorizing 'Transitional Justice', David Anton Hoogenboom
Developmental associations of self-reported body mass and depressive symptoms: A longitudinal examination of the transition from adolescence to young adulthood, Setareh Hooshmand
A Comparative Analysis of Neoliberal Education Reform and Music Education in England and Ontario, Canada, Stephanie Horsley
Attention to Competition: The Role of Managerial Cognition in Shaping the Response to Competitive Actions, Mehdi Hossein Nejad
Laser-Assisted Surface Modification of Hybrid Hydrogels to Prevent Bacterial Contamination and Protein Fouling, Guobang Huang
Reductive Depolymerization of Kraft Lignin for Chemicals and Fuels Using Formic Acid as a In-Situ Hydrogen Source, Shanhua Huang
Nitrate sources and lake response in high elevation lakes, Uinta Mountains, Utah, Beth J. Hundey
Analytic Network Process (ANP) for Housing Quality Evaluation: A Case Study in Ghana, Lucia Kafui Hussey
Performance Implications Of Rear Foot Movement In The Swimming Kick Start, Amber C. Hutchinson