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 2022

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Science Fiction and the Law, Joel M. Welch

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Launching hydrogen energy into life now: Rational catalysts design, Xiaozhang Yao

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A Novel and Failsafe Blockchain Framework for Secure OTA Updates in Connected Autonomous Vehicles, Sadia Yeasmin and Anwar Haque

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Investigating oxytocin’s potential as a treatment for empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia, Soojung Yu

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Solving the Challenges of Autonomous Drone Delivery, Muhammad Zakar

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Play/grounding: Working at the Interchange of Design and Pedagogy, Tatiana Zakharova-Goodman

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Becoming a Detective of How Viruses Exploit Our Cells, Rong Xuan Zang

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Opioid Therapy vs Multimodal Analgesia in Head and Neck Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Sondos Zayed, Pencilla Lang, Lucas C. Mendez, Nancy Read, Jinka Sathya, Dwight Moulin, Andrew Warner, and David A. Palma

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Searching for the Keys to Activate Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptors, Kelly Zhou and Rithwik Ramachandran

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Multi-segment foot model for gait analysis: testing on bowed-legged patients with knee osteoarthritis pre-/post-surgery, Songlin Zhu

Submissions from 2021

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Inequality in the Use of Dental Services as Adolescents Transition to Adults, Naima Abouseta, Noha Gomaa, S. Jeffrey Dixon, and Sharat Pani

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A ‘Critical Mass’ Approach To Negotiations In The WTO: A Case Study Analysis, Temitope O. Adeyemi

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Inspiring Minds Activity, Patrick Adjei

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Exploring the Experiences of Familial Mental Illness Stigma Among Individuals Living with Mental Illnesses, Joseph Adu

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Model-based analysis of microcirculatory parameters affecting O2 transport in skeletal muscle subjected to fixed surface PO2, Keith C. Afas

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Current perceptions of childbirth risk: is it about safety or control?, Grecia Alaniz

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Deep Transfer Learning from Data for Operational Excellence in Refineries, Shahla Alizadeh

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Fishing for Clean Water, Baian Almusned

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A Participatory Approach to the Development Of An Evaluation Framework, Michelle Anderson-Draper

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Post-Ebola Liberia: documenting the role of women in containing the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Florence Wullo Anfaara

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Going local with global policies: Understanding the localization of the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana, Eunice Akua Annan-Aggrey

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Tackling Chronic Disease During a Pandemic, Amanda Anton

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The Stories of Women Experiencing Homelessness Facing Child Separation: A Narrative Inquiry Study, Olayinka O. Ariba

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Better Together: Fostering Student-Level Intercultural Competence Through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and a Collaboratively Created Assessment Tool, Wes Armstrong Mr.

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Why does God Allow Evil to Exist in This World?, Irfan Asghar

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Research that Values Caring for the Caregivers, Kristina Axenova

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Being pushed and pulled: understanding how climate change and foreign investment interact to influence rural-to-rural migration in sub-Saharan Africa, Jemima Nomunume Baada

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How Loneliness Relates to Personality and Smartphone Use, Kristi J. Baerg MacDonald

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Urban governance and the politics of everyday survival for street traders in Harare, Zimbabwe, Elmond Bandauko

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How Can Canada Address the Needs of Rohingya Sexual Violence Survivors through its Foreign Policy?, Deeplina Banerjee

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Developing More Accurate Models of Tornados, Niall C. Bannigan

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Self-Referential Processing effects of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation: A Systematic Review, Zhongjie Bao, Belal Howidi, Amer Burhan Dr., and Paul Frewen Dr.

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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