Inspiring Minds – A Digital Collection of Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity

 

WELCOME TO THE INSPIRING MINDS DIGITAL COLLECTION!

Inspiring Minds is a campus-wide partnership between Western Research, the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, the Writing Support Centre, Western Libraries, Student Experience, and Western's 11 faculties.

Inspiring Minds seeks to broaden awareness and impact of graduate student research, while enhancing transferrable skills. Being able to communicate your research to broad, interdisciplinary and lay audiences -- both inside and outside academia -- is becoming an increasingly important skill for scholars of all levels.

Inspiring Minds seeks to help graduate students enhance this skill.

This non-competitive showcase highlights work by Master's and Doctoral students from all 11 of Western's faculties, schools, and affiliates.


Submit your work by following these steps:

  1. From the top menu bar, click "My Account".
  2. On this page, "Create New Account" or Login. Please note that you do not have to use your Western credentials when creating your account. This account will live here in perpetuity after you graduate.
  3. Once you have created your account and logged in, on the left sidebar scroll down to "Author Corner", then click "Submit Research" and follow the steps.

If you have already submitted your work and would like to make edits, follow these steps:

  1. From the top menu bar, click "My Account".
  2. On this page, "Create New Account" or Login. Please note that you do not have to use your Western credentials when creating your account. This account will live here in perpetuity long after you graduate.
  3. Navigate to your submission under Inspiring Minds – Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity "Articles" then click your submission title.
  4. On the top left sidebar, click "Revise submission" and revise your submission as desired.

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Submissions from 2022

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Combining techniques to determine the cellular mechanisms responsible for whole-brain function, Sam Laxer

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Posthuman novels: how stories of clones, robots and animals reshape our understanding of the Human, Fanny Leveau

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Beyond Vocabulary: Examining the Unique Traits of Late Talkers and their Families, Meaghan Lewcock

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Eliminating Barriers to STEM Education for Students with Neurodevelopment Disabilities, Kailee Liesemer

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A Quantitative Study on Gender Positivity and Gender Distress in Transgender and Gender-­Nonbinary Communities: Predictive Factors and Impact on Health, Lux Li

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Embodied Cognition in Mathematics Education, Chen Lin

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What if there is uncertainty in the probability itself?, Yifan Li

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How do the kidneys repair themselves?, Yilong Li

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Targeting Sepsis One Step at a Time, Rachel Low

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Brain activation during sensorimotor tasks in patients with stroke, Siying Luan, Sarthak Kohli, and Sue Peters

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Law as an Instrument of the Common Good, Saul Arturo Madueno Alvarez

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The Use of Digital Storytelling in Bilingual/Multilingual Students' Meaning-making: A Systematic Literature Review, Qianhui Ma

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Mobile Neuroimaging and Mobility in Parkinson’s Disease, Sam Marshall

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Studying the brain, one neuron at a time., Erwan Martin

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An Examination of the Perceptions of Cuban and Peninsular Spanish Varieties by Native, L2 Learners of Spanish, and Monolingual English Speakers, Gabriela Martinez Loyola

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‘You are what you eat’: exploring relationships between nutrients and gut function, Karly Masse

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(Re)Building Men, Building Peace: Masculinities through DDR in the Kivu Region., Zachary JJ Matthews

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An Examination of Global Perioperative Mortality, Kevin McIntyre, Janet Martin, Saverio Stranges, Daniel Lizotte, Yun-Hee Choi, and Ava A. John-Baptiste

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How can space exploration teams help us prepare for the future of work?, Julia McMenamin

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An open road?: Newcomers’ experiences of Canadian barriers and facilitators of community mobility, Shabnam Medhizadah Ms.

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Future thinking: between what we know and what we expect to happen, Claudia Morales Valiente

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HIV-1 Nef and SERINC5; the Front Line of an Evolutionary Arms Race, Mitchell J. Mumby and Jimmy D. Dikeakos

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Principals' understandings and promotion of equity in virtual schools, Ruth Nielsen

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The Most Sublime Effects: Associative Orchestration in Wagner, Julie Anne Nord

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Living with Documents, Living Under Documents, Martin I. Nord

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Transference Music: for Electric Guitar Soloist and Amplified/Synthesized Orchestra, Andrew Noseworthy

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Beat the Heat- The Use of Thermography for the Assessment and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers, Tessa A. Ogilvie

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How a Pocket-Sized Device Can Detect and Prevent Diabetic Complications, Daria Okonski

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WOMEN AND MEDICINE IN THE GOLD COAST AND GHANA, 1880 – 1963, Michael Osei

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Neuropsychological Outcomes after Cardiac Surgery, Sydni G. Paleczny, Adrian M. Owen, and Kimia Honarmand

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A process of becoming resilient, a profound realization of transformational learning, Yixuan Pang

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The Role of Support in Experiences of Harassment at Work, Victoria H. Paquette

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Unraveling Authentic Representation: Equity, Identity and Race in Popular Music, Rosheeka Parahoo

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Using Laboratory Impact Testing and Finite Element Modelling to Improve Protective Sports Helmet Designs and Prevent Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries, Andrew Luke McConnell Patterson

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Leveraging Sport Events to Create Sustainable Impacts, Erin Pearson

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What is the impact of COVID-19 on single mothers?, Lisbeth Pino

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Here to Help You Hear, Christopher Plimmer

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Confounding Sleep: Narrative as Evidence in Sleep Paralysis, Amala Poli

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Into the Concussed Brain - Biomechanical Damage, Biological Repercussions?, Emilie A. Potts

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The Liability of Persons in the Chain of Carriage, Mary Ppasiou

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How do we predict rewards? : What animal models can reveal about basic behaviours, Harleen Rai

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The coolest Classical Ae stars, Anusha Ravikumar

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Impact of Workplace Violence and Harassment on Self-Worth, Chelsea Reid

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Employing Edge computing to overcome Cloud limitations in Internet-of-Mobile-Things, Arshin Rezazadeh

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Folk Theories and Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Michael Ridley

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Evaluation of copper as the corrosion barrier for nuclear waste containers, Mohammad Sabeti

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Gender Roles in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions and Experiences of Immigrant Women in Canada, Bidushy Sadika

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Applying behavioural economics for more sustainable physical activity incentives: A 12-week pilot feasibility trial in Leeds, UK, Babac Salmani

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Development of a Measure for Capturing Conversation Difficulties and their Social and Emotional Impacts for a Rare Dementia, Haylie Santos

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Unraveling the footprints left in the DNA of sheep, Sarah Santos