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
Characterization of ALDH Positive Cells in the Human Fetal Pancreas, Amanda Oakie
Attachment Relationships Across Siblings and their Common Mother: Patterns and Predictors, Kathleen Anne O'Connor
Wind-Induced Pressures in Air Permeable, Double-Layer Roof Systems in Regions of Separated Flow, Jeong Hee Oh
Environmental Health Effects of Multiple Exposures: Systemic Risks and the Detroit River International Crossing Study, Tor H. Oiamo
Population Genetic Structure in the Pitcher Plant Flesh Fly Fletcherimyia fletcheri, John R. O'Leary
Diffuse Connections: Making Sense of Smell in Canadian Diasporic Women's Writing, Stephanie Oliver
Nerve Blood Flow Control in Health & Disease:The Effects of Type 1 Diabetes and Exercise Training, Terry D. Olver
Liquidation, Amanda A. Oppedisano
Examining Artistic Processes And Transfer, Trish Osler
The Production of Unequal Vulnerability to Flood Hazards in Metro Vancouver, Canada, Greg S. Oulahen
Functional Analysis of Two Brassinosteroid Responsive, Putative Calmodulin-Binding Proteins 60 (CBP60S) in Arabidopsis Thaliana, Purvikalyan Pallegar
A Non-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technique to Assess Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability, Harini Pandithasekera
Niacin and microvascular endothelial cell response to fatty acid excess and hypoxia, Dominic Pang
Transnational Corporate Regulation through Sustainability Reporting: A Case Study of the Canadian Extractive Sector, Navraj S. Pannu
A Space Without Memory: Time and the Sublime in the Work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Margherita N. Papadatos
The Nature of Conflict in Sport: Development and Validation of the Group Conflict Questionnaire, Kyle F. Paradis
The “Fifth Business" of Department Heads: Examining the perceptions of department heads about their role, Nikola Paranosic
The Relationship of Plantar Sensation with Standing Balance and Gait Post-Stroke, Stephen Parsons
Investigating Microenvironmental Regulation of Human Chordoma Cell Behaviour, Priya Patel
Investigating the Experiences of Queer International Students, Elizabeth S. Patrick
Quantifying the effect of age and contraction mode on the force-velocity-power relationship in the knee extensors, Justin R. Paturel
RIPK3 Regulates Microvascular Endothelial Cell Necroptosis and Cardiac Allograft Rejection, Alexander William Pavlosky