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 2013
The Legacy of Military Necessity in Italy: War and Memory in Cassino and Monte Sole, Cynthia D. Brown
Academic Achievement of Children and Adolescents with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder with In-Depth Focus on Written Expression, Heather M. Brown
Following the Turn: Mapping as Material Art Practice, Kyla Christine Brown
Statistical analysis of nonmetric cranial trait interactions in a skeletal population sample from the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, Lisa C. Brown
Examining the Shift in Occupational Identity after a Brain Injury, Mikelle Bryson-Campbell
New Graduate Nurses' Structural Empowerment and Their Experience of Co-worker Incivility and Burnout, Pamela Bushell
Carbon Nitride and Conjugated Polymer Composite Materials, Josh Byers
Music, Cinema and the Representation of Africa, Natasha Callender
Exploring accuracy in journalism stories reporting on neuroscience research findings: A comparative case study, Andrea M. Campbell-Davison
Subcellular Analysis of the Disulfide Proteome in p66Shc expressing Nerve Cells, Tyler Cann
Investigating the Effects of Custom Made Orthotics on Brain Forms: A Pilot Study, Lindsay Carey
Examining Risk: Profiles of Adult Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence, Carolyn Carrier
Essays on Worker Promotion and Wage Growth, Hugh Cassidy
Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
Gold mining in Guatemala: community health and resistance amidst violence, C. Susana Caxaj
New Technology and Techniques for Needle-Based Magnetic Resonance Image-Guided Prostate Focal Therapy, Jeremy Cepek
Effects of Prenatal Testosterone on the Reproductive and Metabolic Neurons of the Sheep Hypothalamus, Maria Cernea
Community Integration After In-Patient Rehabilitation for Lower Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Pilot Study, Chandni Chadha
Molecular and Genetic Analysis of a Conserved Transcription Factor with a Role in Promoting the Completion of Cytokinesis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Bidhan Chakraborty
The Effective Dose of Different Scanning Protocols Using the Sirona Galileos® Comfort CBCT Scanner, David R. Chambers
La variation linguistique dans les blogues journalistiques québécois, Louise Chaput
Synthesis and Spectroscopic Studies of Substituted Pyrrolocytidines, McKenry Charles
Study on the surface chemistry behavior of pyrochlore during froth flotation, Saeed Chehreh Chelgani
Targeted siRNA Delivery Methods for RNAi-Based Therapies, Di Chen
Carbon-nZVI nanocomposites for dechlorination of halogenated hydrocarbons, Jing Cheng