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 2025
A Better Way to See the Heart: Fast and Precise Blood Flow Imaging, Kian Esmailian and James C. Lacefield Dr
Predicting Landslides Using AI, Samuel Espinosa
Beyond Speech Quality: Exploring Speech Outcomes for Adults with Velopharyngeal Dysfunction, Morgan Flanagan, BJ Cunningham, Jeffrey David Holmes, and Allyson Page
Serotonin Tunes Up Song Sparrow Attention to Novel Songs, Abeni R.S. Flynn
Invisible Stimulus: How Magnetic Fields Interact with the Human Body, Eleonore Fresnel
Thoth: An ambient AI assistant bridging physical and digital worlds, Gad M. Gad
Smiles Without Borders: What Makes it Difficult for Newcomers to See a Dentist?, Giuliana Gadoni Giovanni Borges
Zola, But Make It Funny: The Comedies You Missed, Kaitlyn M. Gagnon
Electroacoustic Blend in Music Composition, Daniel Gardner
Has your world shrunk?, Catherine M. George
A step towards accuracy in prostate cancer therapy, Shahin Ghaseminejad, Ting Yim Lee, and Glenn Bauman
Shifting the Lens: Using Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Adults With Acquired Dysarthria, Emily Golding, B J. Cunningham, Jeffrey Holmes, and Allyson D. Page
The Transfer of Interstellar Material From Nearby Star Systems, Cole R. Gregg Mr and Paul A. Wiegert Dr
Working together to help those with atypical parkinsonism, Joanna Gueret
Nurses need support too! Well-being among nurses working with women who experience intimate partner violence, Ushani Tharuka Silva Guneththi
Exploring Nurses’ Decision-Making: Defining Critical and Sensitive Information from Large Language Models, Julia Harrington
Missing Variables in the STEM Teaching Shortage: A Historical and Survey-Based Study on Patterns, Perceptions, and Policies, Aoife E. Hawthorne
Letters as a Laboratory: Rethinking Émile Zola’s Battles Through His Correspondence, Forough Hazrati
Beyond the Page: Revealing Gender Representation in Silver Birch Award Nominees through Critical Discourse Analysis, Zahra Heidarian and Rachel Heydon
Magnificent Chaos: Studies in the Way Performance Pedagogy Helps Develop Professional Identity, Kevin Hobbs
Supporting Parents to Optimize Their Child's Movement, Kyra E. Hollins
Listen to my Speech!, Jessica Holmes
Interfacial Synthesis of Spirane Nanorods for Selective Detection of Proteinogenic Amino Acids: A Novel Template-Free Approach, Munirat A. Idris and Giovanni Fanchini
It’s as Easy as One, Two, Play! Empowering Educators to Spark Active Childhoods, Bayley V. Inniss
When the Brain Can’t Hear, Reza Irani and Ewan Macpherson
Safety of Antidepressants for Aging Kidneys, Atefeh Jafari
Farms That Power the Future, Uzair Jamil
Creating Care That Respects Culture: Voices from Long-Term Care, Azmat Jehan
Accessibility by Design: Musical Instruments in Student Hands, Ran Jiang
Designing for the Future: Unlocking Social and Scientific Progress through Philosophy and Human-Computer Interaction, Carson Amy Johnston
Exploring the Experiences of Breastfeeding Mothers Attending Canadian Post-Secondary Education, Rebecca M. Jones
A Structure's Trial by Wind: From Model to Helical Pile Performance, Rouba Kaafarani
Under Pressure: Experimentally Studying the Cores of Planets and Moons, Ben Kalman
Western Skylark: Space-Enhanced Wildlife Tracking with Optical Payload, Purvaja Karthikeyan and Jayshri Sabarinathan
Improving the accuracy of Automatic Speech Recognition models for Children’s Speech, Emma J. Kazmierowski
Messy, Beautiful, Queer: Through Science to Justice, Karla M. Kenny
Breathing Through Molten Layers – How Oxygen Moves in Metalmaking, Parsa Khanmohammadi Hazaveh
Driving Towards a “Starry” Future, Vikash Kumar
Petrological characterization of mantle xenoliths, Josh Labrie
Learning through stories: Examining the neurocognitive correlates of narrative engagement in children, Jessica M. Lammert and Blake E. Butler
A Municipal Blind Spot: Representations of the Aging-Disability Intersection in Policy, Sarah A. Lanteigne Ms.
Analyzing online media to assist in promoting conservation acceptance of snakes in Canada, William J. Laur
CAN PARALYMPIC GAMES MAKE MORE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY, seunghoon lee
Reading the Room: Understanding Embryo Quality through MicroRNA Clues, Louisa Lewicki
Do Women Win at Aging, or Just Live Longer?, Merita Limani
Reading Belonging: Identity, Performance, and Representation, Shengpei Li
Bridging the Gap: Insulin Insights in Older Adults with Diabetes and CKD, Emma Loeschnik
Active Children, Stronger Future: A New Approach to Enhancing Childhood Arthritis Care, Aidan Loh
Faster, Fairer, and Smarter: Vocabulary Test That Adapts to You, Wanying Lu