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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The Effectiveness of the Protection Motivation Theory in Reducing Vaping Behaviour in a Student Population, Babac Salmani

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Portraits of Internationally Minded Educators, Polin M. Sankar-Persad

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Heat pipes: A versatile yet an underrated device, Dwaipayan Sarkar

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Improving Interventions for Individuals with Trauma, Somer Schaffer

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Advanced engineering simulators for safe operation of nuclear reactors, Omid Sedaghat

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Studying Fesaibility of Simultaneous Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI and [15O]water PET Measurements, Ramanpreet K. Sembhi

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Affordances of Coding in School Mathematics and Beyond, Hatice Beyza Sezer

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Image-Sensing-Smart-Parking Systems (ISenSmaP), Aakriti Sharma Ms

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How Safe Should We Design the Wind Turbine for Hurricane?, chao sheng

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PDM Data Exchange Standard, Jason Shen

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Indigenous voices in the digital age: using digital storytelling to illustrate the lived experiences of urban Indigenous Peoples, Percy Percy Sherwood

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The role of body-related self-evaluations and emotions in the development of self-concept in adolescent girls, Kelsey Sick

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Real-time Automated Metrics for Virtual Bone Drilling, Evan S. Simpson

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Overcoming barriers to equitable change: Identifying sociological and policy barriers that prevent teachers from employing equitable methods, Rhiannon L. Simpson

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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

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Diseases diagnostic tool for ginseng growers, Pankaj Singla

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Is Your ED Ready for an Imminent Birth?, Alison Smith

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Keepsakes of Conflict: Objects Associated with War, Heather S. Smith

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Social Skills Development in Bilingual Children, Tayebeh Sohrabi

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Through the Lense of Youth, Michelle S. Solomon

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The Implementation Of The Research Quality Assurance Policy In The Ecuadorian Public Regional Universities: The Case Of The Manabi Province, Diego R. Sornoza Parrales

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Bio-based Formaldehyde-free Wood Adhesives, Dennise J. Sosa

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The Coping Strategies of Older Adults with Age Related Vision Loss (ARVL) – A Narrative Account, Zakara J. Stampp

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Mental health benefits of physical activity in youth with cerebral palsy: A scoping review, Jessica Anna Starowicz

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Street Tree Effects on Road Surface Temperatures, Austine P. Stastny

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Bracing for Future Outbreaks: Review of Canadian Design Codes for Housing Wind Resilience, Sarah A. Stevenson Ms.

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World-Shaping Speech, Heather Stewart

The Evolution of Be Star Disks in Binary Systems, Mark Suffak

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Support and Aid to Families Electronically, Hayley Sullivan, Hazel Antia, Jessica Landon, AJ Reed, Ariel Seale, Emma Sutton, and Esther Bernal

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Immune Response Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Clara Sun

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Do our Hands see what our Eyes see?, Michelle A. Sveistrup

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Returning to Play During and Post COVID-19, Monika B. Szpunar Ms.

CBD as an Alternative to Antibiotics, Kazi Naziba Tahsin

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Restoring Our Great Lakes Without Excessive Nutrients, Mohammad Noor Tamim

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Developing biomaterials for brain regeneration, Julia Terek

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Investigating Physiological Determinants of Mental Health in Children with Cerebral Palsy, Daniela A. Testani

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Telehealth for Post-Stroke Aphasia, Selina Teti

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Reputation in Prohibited Marks, Geographical Indications, and Moral Rights: A Key Link?, Darinka Tomic

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Characterizing the lifetime phases of wildland fires from the Sioux Lookout District in Ontario., Chelsea Uggenti, Charmaine B. Dean, and Douglas G. Woolford

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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

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Inklings of the 21st Century: #writingcommunity, Arielle VanderSchans

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The Partisan Construction of Policy Agendas: Party Ideology, Party Systems and Policy Attention in English Canadian Provinces, 1945–2020, Shanaya Vanhooren

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Strength in Collaboration, Meghan Vollebregt

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Differences in Returns to Education Across Ethnic Enclaves, Ethnoburbs, and Suburbs in an Era of Rising Anti-Immigration Sentiment, Sandra Weir

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MMA: The fight against obstructive sleep apnea, Kody M. Wolfstadt

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Ultra-Thin Fluid Filters, Anika Wong

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Ghosts of Madwomen Past: Historical and Psychiatric Madness on the Late Twentieth-Century Operatic Stage, Diana Wu

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Blockchain in Cyber Security for Autonomous Vehicles, Sadia Yeasmin

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Exploring the Mental Health Experiences of African, Caribbean, and Black Youth in London, Ontario, Lily Yosieph

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Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Physical Activity, Jane Yuan