What Form Could my Dissertation Take?

 

The School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs values diverse forms of research and is committed to supporting graduate students in pursuing high-quality research that advances their diverse fields of inquiry. This webpage is intended to showcase the range of theses, dissertations, and culminating projects that have been completed through various graduate programs at Queen’s.

Thesis & Dissertation Showcase

As inspiration for your own research, you will find below example theses, dissertations, and culminating projects in relation to four broad categories of scholarship. The School of Graduate Studies values diverse forms of research and is committed to supporting graduate students in pursuing high-quality research that advances their diverse fields of inquiry. As inspiration for your own research, you will find below example theses, dissertations, and culminating projects in relation to four broad categories of scholarship.

A collection of stand-alone articles/chapters, each suitable for dissemination.

Name Program Title and Link

Lois Klassen

Cultural Studies

Ethics and Participation in Art: Reading the Migration Library and other methods

Eleftherios Soleas

Education

What Factors and Experiences Motivate Innovators? An Expectancy-Value-Cost Approach to Promoting Student Innovation

Matthew Penney

Education

Perennial Educational Tensions: Saint Gregory Palamas’s Approach to Byzantium’s Exothen and Kath’imas Educational Traditions & Its Consequences for Thinking with Byzantium in a Contemporary Context

Veronica Allan

Kinesiology & Health Studies

From Knowledge to Action: Quality Participation and Coaching Effectiveness in Disability Sport

Anika Cloutier

Management

Romantic relationships and leadership:Three Studies (PDF1.7MB)

Afolasade Fakolade

Rehabilitation Science

A Needs Assessment to Inform the Development of a Dyadic Physical Activity Intervention for Caregiver Care Recipient Dyads with Moderate-to-Severe Multiple Sclerosis Disability

Atul Jaiswal

Rehabilitation Science

Participation of Persons with Deafblindness in India

Shika Gupta

Rehabilitation Science

Extent, Determinants and Consequences of Cost-Related Non-Adherence to Prescription Medications Among People With Spinal Cord Injuries in Canada

Mandi Veenstra

Sociology

Re-imagining Canada’s Child Welfare Paradigm: A Collective Ethnographic Case Study of Canadian and Finnish Child Welfare Systems

Sylvia Grills

Sociology

Should the Rainbow have Black and Brown Stripes?: (Anti)-Racism and Coalitions in Toronto’s Rainbow Community

Jenn Matsunaga

Sociology

Limits of "Truth and Reconciliation": The Effects of compensation on stories about residential schools and Japanese Canadian internment

Research that combines creative and academic research practices, and that supports the development of knowledge and innovation through artistic expression, scholarly investigation, and experimentation.

Name Program Title and Link

Leah Decter

Cultural Studies

Per/forming Memoration: Integrative Artistic Strategies for Unsettling From a White Settler Perspective

Lois Klassen

Cultural Studies

Ethics and Participation in Art: Reading the Migration Library and other methods

Rebecca Stroud-Stasel

Education

Beyond the Borders: a teacher’s introspection on transformative pedagogy using critical theory and drama

Deyu (Cindy) Xing

Education (M.Ed.)

Exploring academic acculturation experiences of Chinese international students with low oral English proficiency: A musically enhanced narrative inquiry.

Jennifer Turnnidge

Kinesiology & Health Studies

An exploration of Coaches' Leadership Behaviours in Youth Sport

Elsa Hansen

Mathematics & Statistics

Applications of Optimal Control Theory to Infectious Disease Modelling

Typically, 5- or 6-chapter theses/dissertations that present one study.

Name Program Title and Link

Victoria Doran

Classics (M.A.)

The Sacred Nature of Signs: A Study of Christian Symbolism at the Site of Humayma, Jordan

Stephen MacGregor

Education

Eastern Ontario Pre-Service Intermediate-Senior Mathematics Teachers' Beliefs About Problem Solving

Lorraine Godden

Education

Interpreting documents and making sense of public policy goals for career guidance in secondary schools: a multi-perspective comparative study.

Allison Segeren

Education

Twenty Years and Counting: Examining the Development of Equity and Inclusive Education Policy in Ontario (1990-2010)

Anoushka Moucessian

Kinesiology & Health Studies

Why Are We Settling? Indigenous Cultural Safety Education for Counsellors in Ontario

Kristiann Man

Kinesiology & Health Studies

Exploring Narratives of Quality Participation Among Adults with Physical Disabilities in a Community-based Exercise Program: A Mixed Methods, Collective Case Study Approach

Matthew Ventresca

Kinesiology & Health Studies

Mo Bros: Masculinity, Irony and the Rise of Movember

Kathleen Greenaway

Management

Information Privacy Orientation (PDF 17.4MB)

Elsa Hansen

Mathematics & Statistics

Applications of Optimal Control Theory to Infectious Disease Modeling

Naci Saldi

Mathematics & Statistics

Optimal Quantization and Approximation in Source Coding and Stochastic Control

Curtis McDonald

Mathematics & Statistics (M.A.Sc.)

Filter Stability, Observability and Robustness for Partially Observed Stochastic Dynamical Systems

Dalal Daoud

Political Studies

Ruling Islamists’ Approaches to Minorities in Sudan and Turkey

Rebecca Wallace

Political Studies

Reading Between the Lines: Welfare Chauvinism and Depictions of Deservingness in Canadian Print News

Sam Maclennan

Religious Studies (M.A.)

Sick Religion: Towards a Genealogy of Hysterical Stigmata

Alana Saulnier

Sociology

Surveillance Studies and the Surveilled Subject

Ozgun Topak

Sociology

Surveillance, Subjectivity and Resistance at the Frontiers of Europe: A Materialist Analysis of the Greece-Turkey Borders

Natasha Saltes

Sociology

Disability in the Digital Age: Reconfiguring Access, Inclusion and Equality

Rui Hou

Sociology

Outsourced Authoritarianism: The Commercialization of State Control in Chinese Mayor’s Hotlines and the Internet-Opinion Industry