This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of Wilfrid Laurier University students from 1982 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students can choose to withdraw their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via e-mail or by telephone at 519-884-0710 ext. 2073.
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Feeling blue: The Effects of Blue Light Exposure on Reproduction and Physiology in Drosophila melanogaster, Laura Hampel
Student Engagement and Resistance: Exploring the stories of African Canadian girls in high schools in southwestern Ontario, Esther R. Hayford
EXPLORING LAURIER HEALTH SCIENCES STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OF LGBTQ+ HEALTH, Grace Emma Henry and Todd Coleman
Optimizing Electric Vehicle Charging and Energy Consumption: Routing, Booking, and Real-Time Traffic Integration, Md Shahed Hossen
HEAVEN IS QUIET AND TECHNOLOGIES ARE EVERYWHERE: CHINESE COSMOTECHNICS AND DYADIC APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL STRUCTURE, Jonathan Philip Hui
A Dance of War or Love: Applying a Gendered Lens on the Lived Experiences of Women Social Entrepreneurs in Nigeria, Grace C. Ihejiamaizu
IMMUNE PATHWAY MODULATION IN MELANOMA USING CHITOSAN NANOPARTICLE-MEDIATED DSRNA DELIVERY, Bethel C. Iwuji
Social Behavior & Personality in Corn Snakes, Maggie-Rose Johnston
Inductions of Long-Term Potentiation with Biomimetic Electromagnetic Fields in Primary Neurons, Cooper E. Kansala
Credit Risk Modelling with Occupation Times, Hiromichi Kato
The Design and Synthesis of New Materials using Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions, Lavneet Kaur and Kenneth E. Maly
Crime Modeling Using An Integrated CNN–LSTM Architecture with Embedded Self-Excitation, Pawandeep Kaur
The Effects of Mental Fatigue on Decision-Making for Collision Avoidance, Isaac M. Kelly
Geographies of Trauma and Healing: Resistance, Resilience, ‘Ustawi wa’, and the Lived Experiences of African Women Refugees from the EHAGL Region in Canada, Rosemary Njeri Kimani-Dupuis Dr. and Rosemary Kimani-Dupuis
“It is tiny and it is everything”: Exploring the Effects of Arts-Integrated Gardening on Experiences of Ecological Grief Through Autoethnographic Research, Christina Kingsbury
2SLGBTQ+ Contact as a Vehicle for Promoting Alternative Sexual Scripts Through Exposure to Queer and Trans Ways of Knowing, Sophie R. Landry
Moral Identity: From Theory to Research, Jean Paul Lefebvre
Contested Development: China’s Influence, Authoritarian Agency, and NGO Resistance in Uganda, Saara E. Leppanen
Comprehensive analysis of environmental particulate matter: Chemical composition and microbial assessment, Uyen T. L. Le
Dwelling Deeply with Less: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of Urban Minimalism, Joyce Y. Li
Political Communication in A Multicultural Metropolis: Chinese Ethnic Media and the 2023 Toronto Mayoral By-Election, Dongwei Lin
“JUST CHECKING”: RACIAL PROFILING AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK STUDENTS AT POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS, Yugita Looknauth