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 Information and Media Studies.Submissions from 2023
The Cultural and Political Monster: Body Horror as Disability Representation and Identity Crisis, Billie Anderson
Data preparation & ethics: How developers’ values shape the dataset in Artificial Intelligence (AI) development, Pinar Barlas
Understanding Caregivers in Graphic Memoirs, Anastazia K. Csegeny
Networks of resistance: a regional analysis of extractive conflicts in Central America, Giada Ferrucci Ms
Love in The Dark: Seeking Alternative Models of Romance in American Cinema, Mackenzie Jessop
Visualizing Ontologies For Knowledge Translation, John Kausch
Documentary Imaginings of Political Violence, Santasil Mallik
Technological Forecasting: An Information Science Perspective on the Future of AI, Alex Mayhew
Flip to See Original, Shayla Reyes
Submissions from 2022
Why Questioning Social Discourses Can Reduce Your Vulnerability To Disasters, Oluwole Martins Badmus
The Artist-Entrepreneur – Identities in Conflict, John Aaron Castillanes
Networks of resistance: a regional analysis of extractive conflicts in Central America, Giada Ferrucci Ms
Living with Documents, Living Under Documents, Martin I. Nord
Folk Theories and Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Michael Ridley
Submissions from 2021
Reduce. Eliminate. Prevent., Caitlin Burd
The Uses and Gratifications of TikTok During COVID-19, Catherine Danko
(Un)Covering Chemical Valley: Canadian News Media Coverage of Environmental Racism in the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, Mikayla M. Finnerty
Making it: Makerspace use in Canada, Christina Gould
Phylomemetic Cataloguing, Alex Mayhew
From “a great counter attraction to the ale-house and low music hall” to “the one place everybody goes”: the public library in The Globe and Mail, 1860-2016, Kate E. McCandless
City Symposium Series, Aya Mohamed
Narrative's Role in the Retelling of True Crime Cases, Samantha L. Richard
Indigenous voices in the digital age: using digital storytelling to illustrate the lived experiences of urban Indigenous Peoples, Percy Percy Sherwood
Inklings of the 21st Century: #writingcommunity, Arielle VanderSchans