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 and schools.
Submissions from 2023
1918 Influenza in Canadian Newspapers, Hanna C. Barnett
Embodying Guilt in Neoliberalism, Shubhayan Chakrabarti
A Philosophical Analysis of Difficulty, Jordon Leigh James Craib
Gastronomy & Peace, Maria Paula Espejo Mrs
Persistence and Survival: Searching for the Jewish Girl in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Melanie J. Fishbane Ms
Art or Con? Exploring Instapoetry at the Intersection of Creator Culture, Digital Entrepreneurship, and Artistic Innovation, Tanja Grubnic
The Paradox of the Rule of Law: Interventionism and Violation of International Law in Defense of the Rule of Law, Saul Arturo Madueno Alvarez
Networked Masculinity In Toxic Techno-culture, Lutfun Nahar
Activism in Social Media: a study of Hispanic cyberfeminism, Pilar C. Rodriguez Mata Miss
An Immersive and Interconnected Approach to Learning About Culture, Ana Ruiz Segarra
Tracing the Genealogy of Urdu Crime Fiction in the Indian sub-continent:1880-1940, Amina Wasif
Submissions from 2022
Listen to my “Silence”, Joo-ae Judy Bae
The Canadian Convoy Protest as Memory Project, Peyton Campbell
Boredom and Complaint: A Moment, Busra Copuroglu
The Inevitable Invention of the Incels, Zara Diab
Where To? The Study of Navigational Accommodations for Mental Disabilities, Calla Elia
Posthumous Autobiographies: Suicide and Fiction in Yukio Mishima and Osamu Dazai, Ryan R. Haddad
Biopolitics, Necropolitics and Migration in the Novelistic Production of Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, Luis Miguel Herrera Bejines
Posthuman novels: how stories of clones, robots and animals reshape our understanding of the Human, Fanny Leveau
Law as an Instrument of the Common Good, Saul Arturo Madueno Alvarez
An Examination of the Perceptions of Cuban and Peninsular Spanish Varieties by Native, L2 Learners of Spanish, and Monolingual English Speakers, Gabriela Martinez Loyola
Confounding Sleep: Narrative as Evidence in Sleep Paralysis, Amala Poli
Value and Values in Mobile Dating Apps, Meghan E. Voll
Submissions from 2021
Post-Ebola Liberia: documenting the role of women in containing the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Florence Wullo Anfaara
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
How Can Canada Address the Needs of Rohingya Sexual Violence Survivors through its Foreign Policy?, Deeplina Banerjee
Representation of Pandemics in the Media: The Spanish Flu Case Study, Hanna C. Barnett
Canadian Women in Peacekeeping: Opportunities, Constraints, Continuities, and Disruptions, sandra biskupski-Mujanovic
Variation and individual differences in how adults learn Spanish, Martha Black
BanRepCultural’s Public Value Innovations: Culture for Bridging Colombia Together, Emilio Calderon Reyes
Leaha Capriotti Application, Leaha Capriotti
(Re)Viewing Netflix India: Re-Presentation, (Self) Surveillance and Cultural Identity, Anmol Dutta
Real-world trials need real-world consent, Cory E. Goldstein
Why I Write: My First Prize Woman, Sepideh Hatami Ms.
Immigrant language and identity: A story of contact across time in Londombia, Angelica Hernandez Constantin
Écrire à partir (des traces) du passé, Jia Bao Huang
Laughing (until/because) it Hurts: Finding Time for ‘Queer Belonging’ and ‘Queer Joy’ through Art and Aesthetics, Amy Keating
The Phenomenological Basis of Embodied Agency, Yen-Tung Lee
Preservation of Indigenous Languages: Revitalization of Oneida (Iroquoian), Yanfei Lu
Human extinction, Ignacio L. Moya
Emotional Intelligence and the Professional Development of Cuban Musicians Living in Toronto, Maylin Ortega Zulueta
Uncanny Sleep: A Study of Sleep Paralysis through Health Humanities, Amala Poli
Exploring Spanish Art through exhibition data from 1800 to 1939, Barbara Romero Ferron
Canadian Literary Magazines in Times of Crisis, Alexander J. Sallas
Keepsakes of Conflict: Objects Associated with War, Heather S. Smith
World-Shaping Speech, Heather Stewart
Epistemic Injustice in Workplace Hierarchies, Haoyang Yu