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.
The following series highlights all submissions received from the Faculty of Education.Submissions from 2023
Exploring Ecological Questions in Early Childhood Education through Artistic and Sonic Approaches, Malvika Agarwal
Latina Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Higher Education and Leadership, Isabella Alencar Maroja Chaves
Examining the Complexities of Subjectification in Early Childhood Education, Kwang Dae (Mitsy) Chung Miss
Loss. Now what?, Jill Dombroski
Second Language Listening Tests: What Can Test-Takers’ Eye Movements Tell Us?, Shanshan He
Formulating EQUITY in preservice teacher fieldwork, Mitchell Miller
The Grass Isn’t Always Greener: The Relationship Between Perspective-Taking and Attitudes Toward Dating Violence, Aly M. Moscovitz Ms.
Exploring Students’ Service-learning Experience through an Adaptive Movement-based Education Program, Larry Nie
Submissions from 2022
‘Opening Up’ Higher Education in Canada, Mara Bordignon
Good Grief – Supporting students’ losses in the classroom: Professional development of death and dying education, Jill Dombroski
Settlement Workers in Schools' (SWIS) Support for Newcomer Refugee Students and Families in Ontario, Raghad Ebied
Using Virtual Reality to Teach Children with Autism, Emily M. Erb
Developing Accessible Instructions for an Online Screener of Cognitive Impairments, Abagail Hennessy
Speak Up: Nurturing a Culture of Responsible Conduct of Research, Grace Kelly
Building a Culture of Equity, Diversity, Equity and Social Justice at a Community College, Teresa M. Kisilevich
Eliminating Barriers to STEM Education for Students with Neurodevelopment Disabilities, Kailee Liesemer
Embodied Cognition in Mathematics Education, Chen Lin
Principals' understandings and promotion of equity in virtual schools, Ruth Nielsen
A process of becoming resilient, a profound realization of transformational learning, Yixuan Pang
The Role of Support in Experiences of Harassment at Work, Victoria H. Paquette
Impact of Workplace Violence and Harassment on Self-Worth, Chelsea Reid
Research quality assurance policy in the Ecuadorian Public Regional Universities: The case of the Manabí province, Diego R. Sornoza Parrales
Environmental Education in School Gardens: A Ground to Blossom?, Mariam Takkouch
Becoming globally minded: Examining the lived experiences of cosmopolitan educational scholars, Haoming Tang
Where Next? Supporting Third-Culture Kids Post Family Migration, Rola Touckly
Play/grounding: Working at the Interchange of Design and Pedagogy, Tatiana Zakharova-Goodman
Submissions from 2021
A Participatory Approach to the Development Of An Evaluation Framework, Michelle Anderson-Draper
Better Together: Fostering Student-Level Intercultural Competence Through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and a Collaboratively Created Assessment Tool, Wes Armstrong Mr.
Research that Values Caring for the Caregivers, Kristina Axenova
Combating sexual harassment in the baseball industry, Alexis K. Brudnicki
Taking Student Mental Health to the Next Level with Peer Support and Stepped Care 2.0, Janis Campbell
Indigenous Education, Corinne D. Chappell
How do Physicians talk about Death?, Jill Dombroski
Using Complexity Leadership Theory to Improve Holistic Sustainability, Lara M. Duke
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Public Safety Organizations, Megan Edgelow
Promoting Pre-Service Teachers’ Understanding and Implementation of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Practices, Mohammed Estaiteyeh
Examining the Scout Program Ability to Educate for Global Citizenship in Egypt, Tarek M. Faid
The Integration of Coding in a Teacher Education Program: Course experiences and the teaching and learning of mathematics, Lisa A. Floyd
Empower to Collaborate, Mohamed S. Hanif
Bribery in Higher Education Institutions: Roots and Ways out, Roya Karimli
Student engagement in second language learning - oui, on est capable!, Irina Klimenko
Initiating Leadership Development in a VUCA Environment, Merike Kolga
Student Employability in COVID-19, Shannon McKechnie
Curriculum, Theory and Practice: Exploring Nurses and Nursing Students' Knowledge of, Attitudes Towards and Self- Efficacy in Caring for The Elderly in Canada, AMANY FARAG MOHAMED
Reimagining Urban Schoolyards - Land-based Learning, Minou Morley
Ontario highschool principals' understandings of equity in virtual school spaces, Ruth Nielsen
The Internationalization of a Sexual Violence Policy, Kristin J. O'Rourke
Building Educator E-Pedagogy Efficacy and Increasing Student Engagement in the Virtual Learning Environment, Karen M. Roeck
Portraits of Internationally Minded Educators, Polin M. Sankar-Persad
Affordances of Coding in School Mathematics and Beyond, Hatice Beyza Sezer
The Politics of Public Schooling in Nepal, and the Quest for Leadership for Social Justice: An Exploratory Study of Public School Leaders in Bardiya District, Shankar B. Singh
Social Skills Development in Bilingual Children, Tayebeh Sohrabi
The Implementation Of The Research Quality Assurance Policy In The Ecuadorian Public Regional Universities: The Case Of The Manabi Province, Diego R. Sornoza Parrales
A Critical Analysis of the Emerging Discipline of Educational Improvement Science, Shuqing Zou