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
Ghost number of group algebras, Gaohong Wang
Digestion of Municipal Wastewater Biosolids using an Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Bioreactor (AnFBR), Zhenqi Wang
Authority Migration and Accountability in Canadian Type II Multilevel Governance, Robert W. Waterman
Food Ontology and Distribution: Ethical Perception and the Food Object, Siobhan M. Watters
A Pseudo Non-Cartesian Pulse Sequence For Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 Gas MRI of Rodent Lungs At Low Magnetic Field Strength, Krzysztof Wawrzyn
Releasing the self from the diagnostic straitjacket: Making meaning & creating understanding through dialogic autobiography, Marnie L. Wedlake
Development and Assessment of a Virtual Reality Forklift Simulator as a Research Tool to Study Whole-Body Vibration, Peter Wegscheider
Task-switching in oculomotor control: Systematic investigations of the unidirectional prosaccade switch-cost, Jeffrey Weiler
Quality of Life and Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Yi Wei
Sacred Heart: A Stable Isotope Analysis of Childhood, Diet, and Mobility at a Nineteenth Century Ontario Cemetery, Emily Wells
A Cognitive Role Theoretic Approach to the Consumer Role, Jodie Whelan
A Philosophical Analysis of Ethics Education in the Canadian National Coaching Certification Program for Rowing, Mark M. Williams
Comparison of Housed and Homeless Patients with an Orthopedic Diagnosis, Susan M. Williams
The Christian as Witness in View of the True Witness, Emily Patricia Wilton
Somatic Copy Number Mosaicism Contributes to Genomic Diversity in Mus musculus, Andrea E. Wishart
Revisiting working memory: Are domain, process and global models mutually exclusive, nested or orthogonal?, Jeffrey P. Wong
Entrepreneurial Culture: Developing a Theoretical Construct and its Measurement, Matthew A. Wong
Three-dimensional Photoacoustic Tomography System Design Analysis and Optimization, Philip Wong
Evaluating Mental Health Training for Teachers: Identifying and Supporting Students with Mental Health Challenges, Jessica A. Woods
Sculpted Selves, Sculpted Worlds: Plasticity and Habit in the Thought of Catherine Malabou, Thomas Wormald
Gravity wave spectra morphology in the Arctic and non-Arctic lower atmosphere, Melanie C. Wright