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 2021

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Tracking braided rivers through time, Victoria Barlow

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Representation of Pandemics in the Media: The Spanish Flu Case Study, Hanna C. Barnett

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My Research: Internet-delieverd Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Persons with Brain Injury, Ujjoyinee France Barua

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Social Competence in Visual Rehabilitation: Enhancing Social Participation, Emmanuel I. Bassey

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Law Reform for Sexual Violence Survivors, Karen M. Bellehumeur

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How the Pandemic has Impacted Working Undergrads, Miguel F. Bernard Bravo

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Band-Engineered Solar Photocatalysis for Water Purification, PRITHA BHATTACHARYA and Ajay Ray

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Canadian Women in Peacekeeping: Opportunities, Constraints, Continuities, and Disruptions, sandra biskupski-Mujanovic

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Variation and individual differences in how adults learn Spanish, Martha Black

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Optimization of Porous Geometry for Collecting Concentrated Solar Energy, Elizabeth Blokker

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Moments Of Meeting: The Impact Of "Being Known" On The Inclusion Of Individuals With Disabilities In Musical Contexts, Caroline Blumer

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Rewiring the Immune System to Improve Recovery from Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries, Eoin N. Blythe

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Using Spoken Stories to Measure Listening Engagement in Children, Sarah Bobbitt

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Caring as a double-edged sword:The effects of the caring discourse on nurses’ safety in COVID-19, Margot Boulton

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An eye for the invisible: How birds sense the Earth's magnetic field, Madeleine IR Brodbeck

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Combating sexual harassment in the baseball industry, Alexis K. Brudnicki

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Teaching What Isn’t Taught: An e-Learning Course in Physical Activity for Early Childhood Educators, Brianne Bruijns

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Reduce. Eliminate. Prevent., Caitlin Burd

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BanRepCultural’s Public Value Innovations: Culture for Bridging Colombia Together, Emilio Calderon Reyes

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Taking Student Mental Health to the Next Level with Peer Support and Stepped Care 2.0, Janis Campbell

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Leaha Capriotti Application, Leaha Capriotti

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Speak Up!: How Trauma Effects the Singing Voice, Siyuan Carter-Patkau and Mabel Wonnacott

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Indigenous Education, Corinne D. Chappell

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The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Depression, Parisa Chavoshi

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Fighting drug resistance with a new antibiotic, Denny Chin

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Far from home: making stroke diagnosis more powerful at rural hospitals, Kevin J. Chung

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Matushka Rossiya: A Historical Overview of Russia's Relationship with its Neighbours, Liam Clifford

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Mitos On The Move: Powerhouse Of Migratory Flight, Soren Zachary Coulson

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Singing our stories: Experiencing a sense of community and developing self-empowerment in the Childless Voices Choir, Laura Curtis

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The Uses and Gratifications of TikTok During COVID-19, Catherine Danko

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Came for the Student Experience, Stayed for the Research Impact, Cara Davidson

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Silver and Gold: No, not the Jewelry, Nanoclusters!, Johanna A. de Jong

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Killing One Plant With Two Stones: Unsuccessful Mitigation of Pollution and Nutritional Deficiencies, Marnie J. Demand

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Examining the effectiveness of More Than Words: A parent-mediated intervention for preschoolers with autism, Lauren Denusik

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Why can bacteria be harmful one day but deadly the next?, Jaclyn Diamond

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Decolonizing ‘Femicide’ in International Frameworks: A Decolonial Feminist Approach, Hannah M. Diebold

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How do Physicians talk about Death?, Jill Dombroski

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Using Complexity Leadership Theory to Improve Holistic Sustainability, Lara M. Duke

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(Re)Viewing Netflix India: Re-Presentation, (Self) Surveillance and Cultural Identity, Anmol Dutta

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Public Safety Organizations, Megan Edgelow

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Promoting Pre-Service Teachers’ Understanding and Implementation of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Practices, Mohammed Estaiteyeh

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How Do We Engage More Community Members in Active Music-Making?, Fiona Evison

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Examining the Scout Program Ability to Educate for Global Citizenship in Egypt, Tarek M. Faid

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The Unfolded Protein Response is Required for Antifungal Drug Resistance in Yeast, Malisa N. Fernando Miss

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(Un)Covering Chemical Valley: Canadian News Media Coverage of Environmental Racism in the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, Mikayla M. Finnerty

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The Integration of Coding in a Teacher Education Program: Course experiences and the teaching and learning of mathematics, Lisa A. Floyd

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Investigating a Common, but Poorly Understood Type of Spine Arthritis—Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH), Dale E. Fournier

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Pre-rehab and education program for patients receiving a shoulder replacement surgery, Rochelle Furtado Ms.

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Diamonds are Forever: Structural-chemical Characterization of Kimberlite Indicator Minerals as a Reconnaissance Tool to Vector Future Exploration, Song Gao

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Real-world trials need real-world consent, Cory E. Goldstein