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 2025

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A Better Way to See the Heart: Fast and Precise Blood Flow Imaging, Kian Esmailian and James C. Lacefield Dr

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Predicting Landslides Using AI, Samuel Espinosa

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Beyond Speech Quality: Exploring Speech Outcomes for Adults with Velopharyngeal Dysfunction, Morgan Flanagan, BJ Cunningham, Jeffrey David Holmes, and Allyson Page

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Serotonin Tunes Up Song Sparrow Attention to Novel Songs, Abeni R.S. Flynn

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Invisible Stimulus: How Magnetic Fields Interact with the Human Body, Eleonore Fresnel

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Thoth: An ambient AI assistant bridging physical and digital worlds, Gad M. Gad

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Smiles Without Borders: What Makes it Difficult for Newcomers to See a Dentist?, Giuliana Gadoni Giovanni Borges

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Zola, But Make It Funny: The Comedies You Missed, Kaitlyn M. Gagnon

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Electroacoustic Blend in Music Composition, Daniel Gardner

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Has your world shrunk?, Catherine M. George

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A step towards accuracy in prostate cancer therapy, Shahin Ghaseminejad, Ting Yim Lee, and Glenn Bauman

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Shifting the Lens: Using Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Adults With Acquired Dysarthria, Emily Golding, B J. Cunningham, Jeffrey Holmes, and Allyson D. Page

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The Transfer of Interstellar Material From Nearby Star Systems, Cole R. Gregg Mr and Paul A. Wiegert Dr

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Working together to help those with atypical parkinsonism, Joanna Gueret

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Nurses need support too! Well-being among nurses working with women who experience intimate partner violence, Ushani Tharuka Silva Guneththi

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Orchids at the Gym: Investigating Links Between Sensitive Personality and Perceptions of Physical Activity Environments, Beth Hanson

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Exploring Nurses’ Decision-Making: Defining Critical and Sensitive Information from Large Language Models, Julia Harrington

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Missing Variables in the STEM Teaching Shortage: A Historical and Survey-Based Study on Patterns, Perceptions, and Policies, Aoife E. Hawthorne

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Letters as a Laboratory: Rethinking Émile Zola’s Battles Through His Correspondence, Forough Hazrati

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Beyond the Page: Revealing Gender Representation in Silver Birch Award Nominees through Critical Discourse Analysis, Zahra Heidarian and Rachel Heydon

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Magnificent Chaos: Studies in the Way Performance Pedagogy Helps Develop Professional Identity, Kevin Hobbs

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Supporting Parents to Optimize Their Child's Movement, Kyra E. Hollins

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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

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It’s as Easy as One, Two, Play! Empowering Educators to Spark Active Childhoods, Bayley V. Inniss

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When the Brain Can’t Hear, Reza Irani and Ewan Macpherson

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Safety of Antidepressants for Aging Kidneys, Atefeh Jafari

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Farms That Power the Future, Uzair Jamil

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Creating Care That Respects Culture: Voices from Long-Term Care, Azmat Jehan

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Accessibility by Design: Musical Instruments in Student Hands, Ran Jiang

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Designing for the Future: Unlocking Social and Scientific Progress through Philosophy and Human-Computer Interaction, Carson Amy Johnston

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Exploring the Experiences of Breastfeeding Mothers Attending Canadian Post-Secondary Education, Rebecca M. Jones

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A Structure's Trial by Wind: From Model to Helical Pile Performance, Rouba Kaafarani

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Under Pressure: Experimentally Studying the Cores of Planets and Moons, Ben Kalman

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Western Skylark: Space-Enhanced Wildlife Tracking with Optical Payload, Purvaja Karthikeyan and Jayshri Sabarinathan

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Improving the accuracy of Automatic Speech Recognition models for Children’s Speech, Emma J. Kazmierowski

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Messy, Beautiful, Queer: Through Science to Justice, Karla M. Kenny

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Breathing Through Molten Layers – How Oxygen Moves in Metalmaking, Parsa Khanmohammadi Hazaveh

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Driving Towards a “Starry” Future, Vikash Kumar

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Petrological characterization of mantle xenoliths, Josh Labrie

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Learning through stories: Examining the neurocognitive correlates of narrative engagement in children, Jessica M. Lammert and Blake E. Butler

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A Municipal Blind Spot: Representations of the Aging-Disability Intersection in Policy, Sarah A. Lanteigne Ms.

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Analyzing online media to assist in promoting conservation acceptance of snakes in Canada, William J. Laur

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CAN PARALYMPIC GAMES MAKE MORE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY, seunghoon lee

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Reading the Room: Understanding Embryo Quality through MicroRNA Clues, Louisa Lewicki

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Do Women Win at Aging, or Just Live Longer?, Merita Limani

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Reading Belonging: Identity, Performance, and Representation, Shengpei Li

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Bridging the Gap: Insulin Insights in Older Adults with Diabetes and CKD, Emma Loeschnik

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Active Children, Stronger Future: A New Approach to Enhancing Childhood Arthritis Care, Aidan Loh

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Faster, Fairer, and Smarter: Vocabulary Test That Adapts to You, Wanying Lu