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
Labours Of Love: Affect, Fan Labour, And The Monetization Of Fandom, Jennifer Spence
Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Carboxylic Acid Functionalized Polyisobutylene, Inderpreet Sran
Post-Translational Control of Retinoblastoma Protein Phosphorylation, Paul M. Stafford
A Critical Examination of the Social Organizations within Canadian NGOs in the Provision of HIV/AIDS Health Work in Tanzania, Oona M. St-Amant
Behavioral Feeding Problems of Normally Developing Children Under 4 Years of Age, Julia Stanislavskaia
Effects of Mixing and Vapor Residence Time on the Thermal Cracking Performance of Fluidized Beds, Clayton Stanlick
Full-Scale Tests of a Wood-Frame Structure under Extreme Wind Loads, Derek A. Stedman
Between Mercersburg and Oxford: The Ecclesiology of John Williamson Nevin, Kevin H. Steeper
Comprehensive Analysis of Abdominal Tendon Length:Muscle Length Ratios in Human and Rat Specimens, Alexander J. Stephen
Functional Anatomy of the Anconeus: Muscle Architecture and Motor Unit Number Estimation, Daniel E. Stevens
Fragmentation and Wake Formation in Faint Meteors: Implications for the Structure and Ablation of Small Meteoroids, Edward Stokan
Studies In Small Scale Thermal Convection, Daniel F. Stranges
Human Metaphase Chromosome Analysis using Image Processing, Akila M.S Subasinghe Arachchige
Effect of Reverberation Context on Spatial Hearing Performance of Normally Hearing Listeners, Renita E. Sudirga
Physical Sulphate Attack on Concrete, Ahmed Ramadan Suleiman
The ATP2C2 Gene as Transcribed from a Novel Transcriptional Start Site in Pancreatic Acinar Cells, Caitlin M. Sullivan
Ubiquitin-mediated degradation via UPS and lysosome, Qizhi Sun
MR to Ultrasound Registration for Image-Guided Prostate Biopsy, Yue Sun
Gender Relations in Hospice Palliative Home Care for Clients with Cancer and Their Family Caregivers: A Critical Analysis, Nisha S. Sutherland
Effect of Ascorbate on Coagulation and Fibrinolytic Factors in the Septic Microvasculature, Scott Swarbreck
Allostratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician Blue Mountain Formation, Southwestern Ontario, Canada, Sarah N. Sweeney
On the Interfacial Fracture Mechanics of Long-fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites, Ian N. Swentek
Quantifying the Effect of a Novel topical Hyaluronic-Acid Phosphatidylethanolamine Cream on the Epidermis, Caitlin J. Symonette
Exploring Relationships Between Resume Fraud and Individual Differences, Kateryna Synyak