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 2015
Heating Up the Debate: E-cigarettes and Instagram, Stephanie L. Ritter
Exploring And Training Spatial Reasoning Via Eye Movements: Implications On Performance, Victoria A. Roach
The Clarity of Reasonableness Since Dunsmuir: Mission (Mostly) Accomplished, Ryan D. Robb
Combinatorial Techniques in the Galois Theory of p-Extensions, Michael Rogelstad
The Mako language: Vitality, Grammar and Classification, Jorge E. Rosés Labrada
Isolation and Characterisation of Relaxed Specificity I-TevI Nuclease Domain Mutants, Alexander C. Roy
Nitrate Sources in the Old Ausable River Channel and Adjacent Aquifers in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario Canada, Samuel DJ Russell
Overcoming Innate and Acquired Therapy Resistance by Targeting DNA Repair in Human Cancer Cells, Mateusz Rytelewski
Spectrally-Accurate Algorithm for Flows in 3-Dimensional Rough Channels, Md Nazmus Sakib
Estimating Hemodynamics in Skeletal Muscle Arteriolar Networks Reconstructed From In Vivo Data, Amani H. Saleem
Jouissance and Being in Lacanian Discourse, Mazen Saleh
Tangled Hair: Uncertain Fluid Identity, Niloufar Salimi
Privacy in Cooperative Distributed Systems: Modeling and Protection Framework, Afshan Samani
The Role of Androgens in Life History Theories of Attachment, Janani S. Sankar
"She will drive the ____": Verb-Based Prediction in Individuals with Parkinson Disease, Kelsey G. Santerre
Towards Intensified Protein Refolding and Purification on Size Exlusion Chromatography: Fundamental Studies and Mathematical Modelling, Pegah Saremirad
Explaining the Establishment of the Independent Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Laszlo Sarkany
An Approach To Artificial Society Generation For Video Games, Bryan Sarlo
Ecological and Evolutionary Interactions Between Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia) and their Bloodborne Parasites, Yanina Sarquis-Adamson
Examining gifted students' transition to university and its influence on learning, Adrienne E. Sauder
Resilience Factors in School Youth: Looking through Gender and Cultural Lenses, Diana Chanthury Saverimuthu
About Telling: Ghosts and Hauntings in Contemporary Drama and Poetry, Leif Erik Schenstead-Harris