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:
- From the top menu bar, click "My Account".
- 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.
- 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:
- From the top menu bar, click "My Account".
- 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.
- Navigate to your submission under Inspiring Minds – Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity "Articles" then click your submission title.
- On the top left sidebar, click "Revise submission" and revise your submission as desired.
Submissions from 2022
Combining techniques to determine the cellular mechanisms responsible for whole-brain function, Sam Laxer
Posthuman novels: how stories of clones, robots and animals reshape our understanding of the Human, Fanny Leveau
Beyond Vocabulary: Examining the Unique Traits of Late Talkers and their Families, Meaghan Lewcock
Eliminating Barriers to STEM Education for Students with Neurodevelopment Disabilities, Kailee Liesemer
Embodied Cognition in Mathematics Education, Chen Lin
What if there is uncertainty in the probability itself?, Yifan Li
How do the kidneys repair themselves?, Yilong Li
Targeting Sepsis One Step at a Time, Rachel Low
Brain activation during sensorimotor tasks in patients with stroke, Siying Luan, Sarthak Kohli, and Sue Peters
Law as an Instrument of the Common Good, Saul Arturo Madueno Alvarez
Mobile Neuroimaging and Mobility in Parkinson’s Disease, Sam Marshall
Studying the brain, one neuron at a time., Erwan Martin
An Examination of the Perceptions of Cuban and Peninsular Spanish Varieties by Native, L2 Learners of Spanish, and Monolingual English Speakers, Gabriela Martinez Loyola
‘You are what you eat’: exploring relationships between nutrients and gut function, Karly Masse
(Re)Building Men, Building Peace: Masculinities through DDR in the Kivu Region., Zachary JJ Matthews
An Examination of Global Perioperative Mortality, Kevin McIntyre, Janet Martin, Saverio Stranges, Daniel Lizotte, Yun-Hee Choi, and Ava A. John-Baptiste
How can space exploration teams help us prepare for the future of work?, Julia McMenamin
An open road?: Newcomers’ experiences of Canadian barriers and facilitators of community mobility, Shabnam Medhizadah Ms.
Future thinking: between what we know and what we expect to happen, Claudia Morales Valiente
HIV-1 Nef and SERINC5; the Front Line of an Evolutionary Arms Race, Mitchell J. Mumby and Jimmy D. Dikeakos
Principals' understandings and promotion of equity in virtual schools, Ruth Nielsen
The Most Sublime Effects: Associative Orchestration in Wagner, Julie Anne Nord
Living with Documents, Living Under Documents, Martin I. Nord
Transference Music: for Electric Guitar Soloist and Amplified/Synthesized Orchestra, Andrew Noseworthy
Beat the Heat- The Use of Thermography for the Assessment and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers, Tessa A. Ogilvie
How a Pocket-Sized Device Can Detect and Prevent Diabetic Complications, Daria Okonski
WOMEN AND MEDICINE IN THE GOLD COAST AND GHANA, 1880 – 1963, Michael Osei
Neuropsychological Outcomes after Cardiac Surgery, Sydni G. Paleczny, Adrian M. Owen, and Kimia Honarmand
A process of becoming resilient, a profound realization of transformational learning, Yixuan Pang
The Role of Support in Experiences of Harassment at Work, Victoria H. Paquette
Unraveling Authentic Representation: Equity, Identity and Race in Popular Music, Rosheeka Parahoo
Using Laboratory Impact Testing and Finite Element Modelling to Improve Protective Sports Helmet Designs and Prevent Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries, Andrew Luke McConnell Patterson
Leveraging Sport Events to Create Sustainable Impacts, Erin Pearson
What is the impact of COVID-19 on single mothers?, Lisbeth Pino
Here to Help You Hear, Christopher Plimmer
Confounding Sleep: Narrative as Evidence in Sleep Paralysis, Amala Poli
Into the Concussed Brain - Biomechanical Damage, Biological Repercussions?, Emilie A. Potts
The Liability of Persons in the Chain of Carriage, Mary Ppasiou
How do we predict rewards? : What animal models can reveal about basic behaviours, Harleen Rai
The coolest Classical Ae stars, Anusha Ravikumar
Impact of Workplace Violence and Harassment on Self-Worth, Chelsea Reid
Employing Edge computing to overcome Cloud limitations in Internet-of-Mobile-Things, Arshin Rezazadeh
Folk Theories and Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Michael Ridley
Evaluation of copper as the corrosion barrier for nuclear waste containers, Mohammad Sabeti
Gender Roles in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions and Experiences of Immigrant Women in Canada, Bidushy Sadika
Applying behavioural economics for more sustainable physical activity incentives: A 12-week pilot feasibility trial in Leeds, UK, Babac Salmani
Development of a Measure for Capturing Conversation Difficulties and their Social and Emotional Impacts for a Rare Dementia, Haylie Santos
Unraveling the footprints left in the DNA of sheep, Sarah Santos