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
Research quality assurance policy in the Ecuadorian Public Regional Universities: The case of the Manabí province, Diego R. Sornoza Parrales
A split in the road: Developing blood vessel models that mimic real life, Sabrina Staples
Geeks Dance, Jiazhi Sun, Enzhong Jin, and Zhe Rao
Environmental Education in School Gardens: A Ground to Blossom?, Mariam Takkouch
Becoming globally minded: Examining the lived experiences of cosmopolitan educational scholars, Haoming Tang
Disabling virus through modifying host factors, Ziwei Tang
Can the 24h-Movement Guidelines be Used as a Resource for Early Intervention Occupational Therapy?, Leah Taylor
Telehealth assessments and interventions for individuals with post-stroke aphasia, Selina Teti
Where Next? Supporting Third-Culture Kids Post Family Migration, Rola Touckly
Locating Women in International Investment Law, Samarth Trigunayat
Are Mutational Biases Causing Cancer?, Marwa Tuffaha
Delaying the Athletes First Death? The Development of Injury Prevention Strategies for Master Athletes, Princess A. Ulona
MindMAP: The Influences of the Mindfulness Ambassador Program on Graduate Students, Varsha Vasudevan
Value and Values in Mobile Dating Apps, Meghan E. Voll
Happy Customers: Automatic Classification of IT Customer Support Tickets, Yasmen M. Wahba
Understanding and preventing early endothelial changes in diabetic complications, Eric Z. Wang
Science Fiction and the Law, Joel M. Welch
Launching hydrogen energy into life now: Rational catalysts design, Xiaozhang Yao
A Novel and Failsafe Blockchain Framework for Secure OTA Updates in Connected Autonomous Vehicles, Sadia Yeasmin and Anwar Haque
Investigating oxytocin’s potential as a treatment for empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia, Soojung Yu
Solving the Challenges of Autonomous Drone Delivery, Muhammad Zakar
Play/grounding: Working at the Interchange of Design and Pedagogy, Tatiana Zakharova-Goodman
Becoming a Detective of How Viruses Exploit Our Cells, Rong Xuan Zang
Opioid Therapy vs Multimodal Analgesia in Head and Neck Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Sondos Zayed, Pencilla Lang, Lucas C. Mendez, Nancy Read, Jinka Sathya, Dwight Moulin, Andrew Warner, and David A. Palma
Searching for the Keys to Activate Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptors, Kelly Zhou and Rithwik Ramachandran
Submissions from 2021
Inequality in the Use of Dental Services as Adolescents Transition to Adults, Naima Abouseta, Noha Gomaa, S. Jeffrey Dixon, and Sharat Pani
A ‘Critical Mass’ Approach To Negotiations In The WTO: A Case Study Analysis, Temitope O. Adeyemi
Inspiring Minds Activity, Patrick Adjei
Exploring the Experiences of Familial Mental Illness Stigma Among Individuals Living with Mental Illnesses, Joseph Adu
Model-based analysis of microcirculatory parameters affecting O2 transport in skeletal muscle subjected to fixed surface PO2, Keith C. Afas
Current perceptions of childbirth risk: is it about safety or control?, Grecia Alaniz
Deep Transfer Learning from Data for Operational Excellence in Refineries, Shahla Alizadeh
Fishing for Clean Water, Baian Almusned
A Participatory Approach to the Development Of An Evaluation Framework, Michelle Anderson-Draper
Post-Ebola Liberia: documenting the role of women in containing the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Florence Wullo Anfaara
Going local with global policies: Understanding the localization of the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana, Eunice Akua Annan-Aggrey
Tackling Chronic Disease During a Pandemic, Amanda Anton
The Stories of Women Experiencing Homelessness Facing Child Separation: A Narrative Inquiry Study, Olayinka O. Ariba
Better Together: Fostering Student-Level Intercultural Competence Through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and a Collaboratively Created Assessment Tool, Wes Armstrong Mr.
Why does God Allow Evil to Exist in This World?, Irfan Asghar
Research that Values Caring for the Caregivers, Kristina Axenova
Being pushed and pulled: understanding how climate change and foreign investment interact to influence rural-to-rural migration in sub-Saharan Africa, Jemima Nomunume Baada
How Loneliness Relates to Personality and Smartphone Use, Kristi J. Baerg MacDonald
Urban governance and the politics of everyday survival for street traders in Harare, Zimbabwe, Elmond Bandauko
How Can Canada Address the Needs of Rohingya Sexual Violence Survivors through its Foreign Policy?, Deeplina Banerjee
Developing More Accurate Models of Tornados, Niall C. Bannigan
Self-Referential Processing effects of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation: A Systematic Review, Zhongjie Bao, Belal Howidi, Amer Burhan Dr., and Paul Frewen Dr.