• Indigenous Pedagogy at UVIC: An Exploration of Teaching Methods by and for Indigenous Peoples 

  Lacerte, Sage (2020-07-01)

  Canadian Post Secondary Institutions are inextricably linked to European imperialism and colonialism. A key element of settler colonialism is to remove Indigenous means of knowledge transferral by eliminating community ...
• Maternal mortality: Inevitable evolutionary obstetrical dilemma or preventable health outcome? 

  Ronayne, Emma (2020-06-08)

  This research project will look at of causes of postpartum and childbirth-related maternal mortality to investigate dominant perspectives on the evolutionary implications of bipedalism for risk in childbirth. The Obstetrical ...
• Zola en dehors de l’Europe 

  McDonald, Callum (2020-06-08)

  [French] Émile Zola s’implique dans un colonialisme « littéraire ». L’antépénultième roman des Rougon-Macquart, L’Argent, se sert d’un projet colonial dans la Méditerranée en tant que foil narratif du projet d’acquisition ...
• (Un)observed: Deceptive Narration and Trauma in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette 

  Pinto, Sonja (2020-06-08)

  In this essay, I propose that Lucy lies as a way of coping with traumatic events that remain beyond her narration. I thus reclaim Villette as a trauma narrative to explain Lucy’s deceptive narration and resistance to being ...
• Neural network hardware acceleration: Leveraging parallelism in FPGAs to improve neural network performance 

  Lee, Robert (2020-06-08)

  In many of today’s leading-edge computer vision research areas, the speed and resilience of artificial neural networks is vital to the system’s performance. Often, real-time processing may be necessary. However, due to its ...
• Electronic Transport in Gold Nanoparticle-Molecular Networks 

  Zaborniak, Tristan (2020-06-08)

  Electronic transport is investigated in self-assembled gold nanoparticle-benzenedithiol networks with tunable molecule:nanoparticle ratios (1:5-50:1) deposited between planar electrodes. Two-terminal current-voltage ...
• Crossing Racialized Lines: Mapping Academics’ Responses To So-Called “Transracialism" 

  McMunagle, Alexa (2020-06-08)

  In 2017, a young academic by the name of Rebecca Tuvel published an article entitled “In Defense of Transracialism” in which she argued that “considerations that support transgenderism seem to apply equally to transracialism” ...
• Decolonizing Praxis: Implications for Child and Youth Care 

  Yang, Soolin; Lawrence, Bronwyn (2020-06-08)

  While Western post-secondary institutions have a history of enacting colonial violence, there has been advocacy from communities, faculty, and students to actively incorporate decolonial theory and practices into higher ...
• South Asian Canadian Young Adults’ Culture and Sexual Health 

  Swaich, Anmol (2020-06-08)

  Second-generation South Asian Canadian young adults typically report more sexual conservatism than their peers of other ethnic backgrounds. However, we are unsure of whether this is reflective of something inherent to South ...
• All in the Timing: Timekeeping and Detection in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret 

  Steele, Robert (2020-06-08)

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s novel Lady Audley’s Secret (1860–61) was a Victorian bestseller, helping found the scandalous 1860s British genre of sensation fiction with its shocking portrayal of bigamy, arson, insanity, and ...
• The Spirits: A Study of Katherine Hoover’s Solo Flute Pieces 

  Xu, Keren (2020-06-08)

  Katherine Hoover was an American composer and flautist. Her main aim in creating music was to tell stories and evoke senses and imagery through her music. She wanted to express her own creativity and pass on the emotions ...
• EVOKE: An Exploration of Theatrical Design’s Emotional Stimulus 

  Wheeler, Olivia (2020-06-08)

  What happens when we remove the live human performer from the heart of the performance and design is brought to the forefront of the conversation? The performances at the University of Victoria and within the surrounding ...
• Bisexual Women in 21st Century Speculative Fiction Television 

  Woodland, Candace (2020-06-08)

  This research project explores the ways in which bisexual women are portrayed in speculative fiction television, in order to gain a deeper understanding of prevalent social narratives about bisexual women. Using a critical ...
• Pathogens or Symbionts? A study of the slime mold Cavenderia aureostipes var. Helvetia and its associated bacteria 

  Ruff, Kara (2020-06-08)

  The model organism Dictyostelium discoideum (D. discoideum) has been found to have an endosymbiotic relationship with Burkholderia sp. that confers novel traits to the Dictyostelid; however, investigations into whether or ...
• Total Roman Domination Edge-Supercritical and Edge-Removal-Supercritical Graphs 

  Ogden, Shannon (2020-06-08)

  A total Roman dominating function on a graph G is a function f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} such that every vertex v with f(v) = 0 is adjacent to some vertex u with f(u) = 2, and the subgraph of G induced by the set of vertices w ...
• Partial Explanation in Philosophy 

  Oakley, Alec (2020-06-08)

  We sometimes wish to explain something partially, or say what something is in part. My having knowledge can be partially explained by my having a true belief; but this does not wholly explain it. And part of what it is to ...
• Researchers’ and the public’s perspectives on evidence-based health policy: Bridging the communication chasm 

  Lakshmanan, Aditi (2020-06-08)

  Evidence-based health policy (EBHP) is critical for increasing transparency in decision-making, ensuring effective use of resources, and building stronger partnerships. The purpose of this study is to explore researchers’ ...
• Wholehearted Nursing: Exploring the BSN student experience of Holistic Nursing 

  Chudleigh, Jocelyn (2020-06-08)

  Background: This is a qualitative pilot study exploring the perspectives of University of Victoria BSN students around holistic nursing. The literature tells that nursing from a holistic lens has positive impacts for both ...
• Are the Dimensions of the Human Development Index (HDI) Important in Explaining Subjective Well-being (SWB)? 

  Wang, Anke (2020-06-08)

  This study explores the relationship between human development and subjective well-being (SWB), specifically analyzing the correlations between the Cantril Ladder measure of life satisfaction and the dimensions of the Human ...
• Disembodied: Indigenous Tattooing and the Virtual Archive 

  Costain, Rae (2020-06-08)

  Indigenous cultural tattooing has reawakened in BC. While only marginally recorded in the anthropological archive, a contemporary virtual archive has emerged on social media that documents and widely circulates images of ...

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