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 2023
Insights into the debated gating of mtCU using computational modelling, Danielle M. Colussi
A Philosophical Analysis of Difficulty, Jordon Leigh James Craib
Understanding Caregivers in Graphic Memoirs, Anastazia K. Csegeny
Gender-based violence and breast cancer: A threat to women’s health equity in Canada, Cara Anne Davidson
How satisfied are patients with advanced physical therapy practice?, Chris Davis
How does the "6th sense" contribute to our auditory spatial attention?, Erisa Davoudi
How does a tiny beam of light make a nuclear power plant safer?, Yongqiang Deng Mr.
Virtual More Than Words®: A Caregiver-Mediated Program for Autistic Preschoolers, Lauren Denusik
Experiences of non-profit staff providing care for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: Key takeaways from Uganda and Ethiopia., Satveer Dhillon
Loss. Now what?, Jill Dombroski
Exploring the roles of Kindlin 1 and Kindlin 2 in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Anamika Dutta
Revolutionizing Computing Speed: Improved Light Detection Materials for Data Processing, Chinenye U. Ekeruche
Gastronomy & Peace, Maria Paula Espejo Mrs
Composing Music with Canadian Kids for Postpandemic Recovery, Fiona Evison
Networks of resistance: a regional analysis of extractive conflicts in Central America, Giada Ferrucci Ms
Persistence and Survival: Searching for the Jewish Girl in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Melanie J. Fishbane Ms
Gravitationally Detecting Exoplanets, Chris Fox
Which impacts? Peripheral nerve magnetic stimulation at powerline frequencies, Eleonore Fresnel
Finding Drug Targets in the Liver to Treat Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases, Chen Jun Gao
Resilience in Power Systems, Mohammad Ghanbari
Mining the knowledge gap of Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections among Black youth in Canada, Bethelehem Girmay and Obidimma Ezezika
Accessing Providers for Co-Occurring Health and Mental Health Disorders for Children and Youth in Ontario, Grace Golden
Contextualizing Compensation: The antecedents and consequences of executive pay disparity, Ainsley Gonder
Thinking Abilities in People with Seizure Conditions: Which Are Impaired?, Hannah G. Gray, Karnig Kazazian, Conor Wild, Dr. Derek B. Debicki, Dr. Adrian M. Owen, and Dr. Teneille Gofton
The Development of Interstellar Meteoroid Streams, Cole R. Gregg and Paul Wiegert
Unraveling the Mysteries of Pleione: Shedding Light on Strange Spectra in a Hot Be Star, Jamie I. Griffiths
Shining a Light on Foam-Based Floating Solar Panels and their Interactions with a Body of Water in Canada, Koami Soulemane Hayibo and Joshua M. Pearce
Observing the Gas Disturbed by Supermassive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies, Adrien Hélias
Are you an optimist or a pessimist? : Developing a rodent translatable task, Ashlyn Hersey
Second Language Listening Tests: What Can Test-Takers’ Eye Movements Tell Us?, Shanshan He
Let's Move! Motion Correction for MRI, Miriam Hewlett
Did You Hear That? When What We Hear Influences What We Say, Jessica Holmes
Painting with the Colours of the Voice: Exploring the Role of Timbre in Emotive Affect in Bel Canto Singing, Charmaine Iormetti Ms.
Burnout among New Graduate Nurses (NGNs)- Are we ready to take the load?, Mehtab Jaffer
Increasing Safety for Commotio cordis in Sport, Grant J. James
Interconnected Pathways on YouTube and Music Education: YouTubers and Their Stories, Donna Janowski
Are we there yet?: The availability of surgery in Canada and the impact of traveling to access it in high-income countries, Curtis D. Jeffrey
Love in The Dark: Seeking Alternative Models of Romance in American Cinema, Mackenzie Jessop
Nutrient Pollution from Urban Watersheds, Sabrina Jivani
From the Other Side: Stroke Management in Low- and Middle-Income African Countries (LMIAC), Keren Sarpomaa Kankam, Laura Murray, Danielle Glista, Marie Savundranayagam, Mawukoenya Theresa Sedzro, and Selina Teti
Mindfulness Meditation as a Predictor of Pro-Environmental Leadership, Talib Karamally
Value of human involvement in an investment-centric economic world order, Rishiraj Kashyap
Visualizing Ontologies For Knowledge Translation, John Kausch
Predicting Recovery of Disorders of Consciousness, Teagen Kew
Light, Stars, Chemistry: Webb sheds light on Carbon-based Molecules in Space, Baria S. Khan
Preserving the plant partner: how copper affects plant-bacteria symbiosis, Kathryn E. Lamoureux
Is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging the Key to Finally Understanding how the Brain Works?, Sam Laxer
Probabilistic Price Promotion, Yongqin Lei and Fredrik Odegaard