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 2021
The Effectiveness of the Protection Motivation Theory in Reducing Vaping Behaviour in a Student Population, Babac Salmani
Portraits of Internationally Minded Educators, Polin M. Sankar-Persad
Heat pipes: A versatile yet an underrated device, Dwaipayan Sarkar
Improving Interventions for Individuals with Trauma, Somer Schaffer
Advanced engineering simulators for safe operation of nuclear reactors, Omid Sedaghat
Studying Fesaibility of Simultaneous Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI and [15O]water PET Measurements, Ramanpreet K. Sembhi
Affordances of Coding in School Mathematics and Beyond, Hatice Beyza Sezer
Image-Sensing-Smart-Parking Systems (ISenSmaP), Aakriti Sharma Ms
How Safe Should We Design the Wind Turbine for Hurricane?, chao sheng
PDM Data Exchange Standard, Jason Shen
Indigenous voices in the digital age: using digital storytelling to illustrate the lived experiences of urban Indigenous Peoples, Percy Percy Sherwood
The role of body-related self-evaluations and emotions in the development of self-concept in adolescent girls, Kelsey Sick
Real-time Automated Metrics for Virtual Bone Drilling, Evan S. Simpson
Overcoming barriers to equitable change: Identifying sociological and policy barriers that prevent teachers from employing equitable methods, Rhiannon L. Simpson
The Politics of Public Schooling in Nepal, and the Quest for Leadership for Social Justice: An Exploratory Study of Public School Leaders in Bardiya District, Shankar B. Singh
Diseases diagnostic tool for ginseng growers, Pankaj Singla
Is Your ED Ready for an Imminent Birth?, Alison Smith
Keepsakes of Conflict: Objects Associated with War, Heather S. Smith
Social Skills Development in Bilingual Children, Tayebeh Sohrabi
Through the Lense of Youth, Michelle S. Solomon
The Implementation Of The Research Quality Assurance Policy In The Ecuadorian Public Regional Universities: The Case Of The Manabi Province, Diego R. Sornoza Parrales
Bio-based Formaldehyde-free Wood Adhesives, Dennise J. Sosa
The Coping Strategies of Older Adults with Age Related Vision Loss (ARVL) – A Narrative Account, Zakara J. Stampp
Mental health benefits of physical activity in youth with cerebral palsy: A scoping review, Jessica Anna Starowicz
Street Tree Effects on Road Surface Temperatures, Austine P. Stastny
Bracing for Future Outbreaks: Review of Canadian Design Codes for Housing Wind Resilience, Sarah A. Stevenson Ms.
World-Shaping Speech, Heather Stewart
The Evolution of Be Star Disks in Binary Systems, Mark Suffak
Support and Aid to Families Electronically, Hayley Sullivan, Hazel Antia, Jessica Landon, AJ Reed, Ariel Seale, Emma Sutton, and Esther Bernal
Immune Response Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Clara Sun
Do our Hands see what our Eyes see?, Michelle A. Sveistrup
Returning to Play During and Post COVID-19, Monika B. Szpunar Ms.
CBD as an Alternative to Antibiotics, Kazi Naziba Tahsin
Restoring Our Great Lakes Without Excessive Nutrients, Mohammad Noor Tamim
Developing biomaterials for brain regeneration, Julia Terek
Investigating Physiological Determinants of Mental Health in Children with Cerebral Palsy, Daniela A. Testani
Telehealth for Post-Stroke Aphasia, Selina Teti
Reputation in Prohibited Marks, Geographical Indications, and Moral Rights: A Key Link?, Darinka Tomic
Characterizing the lifetime phases of wildland fires from the Sioux Lookout District in Ontario., Chelsea Uggenti, Charmaine B. Dean, and Douglas G. Woolford
Validity of Quality-of-Life Measurement in Economic Evaluations: Agreement between Western Ontario and McMasters Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) and the EuroQOL 5D (EQ5D) Utility scores, Sanju Valamparampil
Inklings of the 21st Century: #writingcommunity, Arielle VanderSchans
The Partisan Construction of Policy Agendas: Party Ideology, Party Systems and Policy Attention in English Canadian Provinces, 1945–2020, Shanaya Vanhooren
Strength in Collaboration, Meghan Vollebregt
MMA: The fight against obstructive sleep apnea, Kody M. Wolfstadt
Ultra-Thin Fluid Filters, Anika Wong
Blockchain in Cyber Security for Autonomous Vehicles, Sadia Yeasmin
Exploring the Mental Health Experiences of African, Caribbean, and Black Youth in London, Ontario, Lily Yosieph
Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Physical Activity, Jane Yuan