• Income, power, and intimate partner violence at the transition to parenthood 

  Matheson, Lauren (2019-11-04)

  In relationships between men and women, women are still more likely than men to take family leave and reduce work hours after the birth of their first child. This results in economic changes between partners at the transition ...
• Varieties of social understanding 

  Yeung, Emanuela (2019-10-29)

  Philosophical and psychological theories of social understanding have largely focused on the construct of “theory of mind” (ToM) and the inferential processes that may be necessary for understanding the meaning of others’ ...
• A longitudinal investigation of depression, anxiety, and stress as moderators of the coupled relationship between negative urgency and disordered eating frequency in first-year undergraduates 

  Legg, Nicole (2019-10-09)

  Evidence suggests that the transition to postsecondary may be an important period of risk for engagement in disordered eating (DE). DE has been demonstrated to fluctuate and change course over time, however, very little ...
• Investigating the efficacy of attention and working memory training for preschoolers 

  Bedir, Buse N. (2019-10-09)

  The effectiveness of attention and working memory (A/WM) training programs in improving executive functions (EFs) is heavily debated. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the efficacy of a game-based ...
• Weather Awareness: On the Lookout for Wildfire in the Canadian Rocky Mountains 

  Walsh, Kristen Anne; Sanseverino, Mary; Higgs, Eric S. (Mountain Research and Development, 2017)

  Mountains are crucial places in which to observe, experience, and learn about rapid weather and climate shifts, felt to varying degrees in different contexts. Fire lookout observers, immersed in the mountain environments ...
• On the modelling of solar radiation in urban environments – applications of geomatics and climatology towards climate action in Victoria 

  Krasowski, Christopher B. (2019-10-04)

  Modelling solar radiation data at a high spatiotemporal resolution for an urban environment can inform many different applications related to climate action, such as urban agriculture, forest, building, and renewable energy ...
• Ts’a7inwa (gooseneck barnacles) as a proxy for archaeological efforts to understand shellfish as food in Nuu-chah-nulth territories 

  Efford, Meaghan Karyn (2019-10-03)

  This thesis examines the comparative abundance of shellfish from archaeological assemblages on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu-chah-nulth territories. Eighteen sites spanning the Nuu-chah-nulth region emphasize ...
• Biocultural approaches to environmental management and monitoring: theory and practice from the cultural rainforests of Kitasoo/Xai’xais Territory 

  DeRoy, Bryant (2019-09-30)

  Biocultural approaches to Environmental Management (EM) and monitoring are an emerging strategy in sustainability planning. Unlike functional ecological approaches to EM, which exclude humans from ecological systems, ...
• Diabetes and Diabetes Care among Nonobese Japanese-Americans: Findings from a Population-Based Study 

  Kobayashi, Karen; Chan, Keith Tsz-Kit; Roy, Adity; Khan, Mushira Mohsin; Fuller-Thomson, Esme (Advances in Preventive Medicine, 2019)

  Objectives. The objectives of this study are as follows: (1) to determine the prevalence of diabetes among nonobese Japanese-Americans and to determine the adjusted odds of diabetes among nonobese Japanese-Americans compared ...
• Trauma history, prenatal posttraumatic stress and depressed mood as predictors of postpartum maternal relationship and sexual well-being 

  Torok, Debra (2019-09-20)

  The first year postpartum is often a challenging time for romantic partners. During this time, couples tend to experience less relationship intimacy and sexual satisfaction, which may be further exacerbated by individual ...
• Learning to teach: Teaching assistants (TAs) learning in the workplace 

  Korpan, Cynthia Joanne (2019-09-19)

  Through an exploratory qualitative, interpretive frame that employed an ethnographic methodological approach, this research focuses on teaching assistants (TAs) teaching in a lab, tutorial, or discussion group. Nine TAs ...
• Speaking with authority: gender and Indigenous politics in the Mount Polley Mine Disaster 

  McAllister, Shianna (2019-09-11)

  This thesis explores the role of authority and how Indigenous people have been gravely impacted throughout the 2014 Mount Polley Mine Disaster. Through critical engagement of political theory, environmental racism, and ...
• The religious identity of Filipinx Canadian immigrants: religious expressions, development, and enculturation/acculturation 

  Ortiz, Drexler Klein L. (2019-09-06)

  The current study examined religious identity in a Filipinx Christian immigrant adolescent and emerging adult sample (N = 197) in Canada. Religious identity was defined as the extent to which an individual has engaged in ...
• “The best of both worlds” – connecting remote sensing and Arctic communities for safe sea ice travel 

  Segal, Rebecca (2019-09-06)

  This thesis examines the role of remote sensing technology in providing information to northern residents of Kugluktuk and Cambridge Bay, Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, Western Canadian Arctic, for the purpose of improving ...
• Waste governance in Vancouver: Binners' participation and the impacts of grassroots innovations (an explorative study) 

  Sholanke, Dare (2019-09-05)

  Due to the general unawareness of the existence and significance of the informal recycling sector in the global north, leading to a great deal of exclusion and stigmatization, this thesis seeks to investigate waste governance ...
• Identification of earlier biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease: a neuroimaging study of individuals with subjective cognitive decline 

  Parker, Ashleigh (2019-09-04)

  Background: Given that individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) report a change that is not yet measurable with standard neuropsychological assessment measures, they are thought to be the earliest along the ...
• EU regional cooperation and governance of its eastern neighbourhood: a compilation of six research papers 

  Shaban, Tatsiana (2019-08-30)

  The European Union (EU) governance is very complex. Also, in order to have an impact on the democratic transformation of national settings in its Eastern Neighbourhood there is a need for the EU to govern more effectively. ...
• Dieting also starves romantic relationships: the association between dieting and romantic relationship quality 

  Robertson, MacKenzie D. A. (2019-08-30)

  The negative health consequences of dieting for individuals are well established. Yet little is known about the interpersonal consequences of dieting for romantic couples. This study utilized self-report questionnaire data ...
• Anxious identity and the challenges of diversity: understanding Quebec's national identity debate 

  Gnanasihamany, Stephen (2019-08-30)

  This research seeks to understand how Québec governments have constructed the relation between national identity and cultural diversity from the 1960s’ Quiet Revolution to the 2010s by analyzing the discursive and historical ...
• Determinations of dissent: protest and the politics of classification 

  Bashovski, Marta (2019-08-29)

  This dissertation examines the significance of the politics of classification to how we have come to understand and study practices of protest and dissent. I trace the politics of classification in the history of political ...

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