• The Art and Science of the Electroacoustic Steelpan 

  Malloy, Colin (2023-04-28)

  Hailing from the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, the steelpan is one of the most significant acoustic instruments invented in the 20th century. Despite en- joying international popularity and attention from acoustics ...
• Ni'kma'jtut Mawita'nej -My People Let Us Gather Spirit in the Fringes: Reframing Through Relationality, Trans-conceptual Spaces, Creative Practice, and Intervention 

  Rhude, Sarah (2023-04-28)

  Situated in my experience as an Indigenous educator, I have witnessed and experienced Indigenous people, knowledge, and relationships being systemically pushed to the fringes of Western education systems. Utilizing a ...
• Bridging Ethnobotany, Autecology and Restoration: The Study of Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia Willd.; Alismataceae) in Interior British Columbia 

  Garibaldi, Ann Catherine (2023-03-02)

  The goal of this research is to explore the cultural and ecological restoration of an aquatic perennial, wapato ( agittaria latifolia Willd.: Alismataceae) in the Salmon River Delta, Salmon Arm, British Columbia. Wapato ...
• "Know When to Hold 'em, Know When to Fold 'em": Navigating the more-than-dual roles of Indigenous leadership in post-secondary colonial institutions 

  Young, Ruth (2022-05-02)

  This work examines the characteristics of Indigenous leaders and the situational contexts in which they work that enable them to effect institutional change in the Canadian public post-secondary education environment. ...
• Collaborative learning via mobile language gaming and augmented reality: affordances and limitations of technologies 

  Perry, Bernadette (2022-04-05)

  This research explores collaborative second language (L2) learning in gamified environments, and specifically examines affordances and limitations of mobile gamified language systems and augmented reality (AR) in supporting ...
• Unframing and reframing shanshui 

  Liu, Yang (2022-01-07)

  This dissertation explores the philosophical and aesthetic continuities and changes of the shanshui genre and the ongoing relevance of Chinese philosophy, in particular Daoism, within a subfield of modern and contemporary ...
• The Story Wheel: an ethnographic study of autistic adults exploring a story-drama curriculum 

  Curry, Nancy J. (2021-12-23)

  The clinical diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder (APA, 2013) include difficulties with social communication and social cognition. Decades of autism research have been devoted to developing and implementing ...
• The true transsexual and transnormativity: a critical discourse analysis of the wrong-body discourse 

  Dominic, Kimi (2021-12-21)

  How did the wrong-body discourse (WBD) become the dominant medicalised discourse in Canada and the United States? What ideological effects did this dominance have? To address these questions, I conducted a critical discourse ...
• Fair governance and Islamoexploria: the interaction of government administrators and the marginalized 

  Khorramipour, Masoumeh (2021-12-15)

  This study addresses the concept of fair governance based on an empirical study with marginalized groups, primarily Muslims, and their interaction with government agencies as its salient locus of investigation. Employing ...
• The synthesizer programming problem: improving the usability of sound synthesizers 

  Shier, Jordie (2021-12-15)

  The sound synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument that has become commonplace in audio production for music, film, television and video games. Despite its widespread use, creating new sounds on a synthesizer - ...
• Exploring the role of digital technologies for social connectedness, outcomes and experiences with the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) community: A transformative mixed methods research study 

  Antonio, Marcy (2021-10-04)

  Prior to the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were already experiencing social isolation due to the complex intersection of symptoms, and perceptions ...
• Aged by Popular Culture 

  Outcalt, Linda (2021-09-13)

  Aged by popular culture is a research project designed to investigate how our perceptions of age and aging are shaped by two specific aspects of North American culture – Western media and popular culture – which have ...
• Social media reviews as a supplement to traditional quality survey in the Canadian context 

  Talusan, Christopher (2021-09-13)

  Measurement for quality improvement in health care can be difficult. Measuring patientcentred care ensures both patient, health care professionals and health system perspectives are accounted for. Unfortunately, obtaining ...
• Beasts in the Garden City: animals, humans, and settlement on Canada's west coast 

  Cunningham, Tim (2021-09-08)

  This thesis examines the numerous roles that nonhumans (and especially livestock) played in the creation, maintenance, and reproduction of settler space in the colonial city of Victoria, British Columbia, and details the ...
• Opening up scholarship in the humanities: digital publishing, knowledge translation, and public engagement 

  Arbuckle, Alyssa (2021-06-07)

  Opening Up Scholarship in the Humanities: Digital Publishing, Knowledge Translation, and Public Engagement considers the concept of humanistic, open, social scholarship and argues for its value in the contemporary academy ...
• Globalization's ruptures and responses: lessons from three BC communities 

  Dunsmoor-Farley, Dyan (2020-09-02)

  The global economy infuses every aspect of our day to day lives, from the clothes we wear, to the food we eat, to our political choices. And with its ability to “mutate, shudder and shatter” (Dicken et al), the unpredictable ...
• The impact of Congenital Long QT Syndrome on First Nations children and youth in Northern British Columbia 

  Bene Watts, Simona (2020-08-23)

  Background: Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a cardiac condition which predisposes individuals to syncope, seizures, and sudden cardiac death. There is a high prevalence of congenital LQTS in a First Nations community in Northern ...
• Living<=>Dying with metastatic breast cancer: women's accounts of living longer in smaller communities 

  Shermak, S. Lee (2020-06-05)

  As a life-limiting illness mediated by rapid advancements in biomedical technologies, metastatic breast cancer (MBC) now presents in increasingly unexpected ways where women are living longer. These women’s lives may not ...
• One step at a time: analysis of neural responses during multi-state tasks 

  Grey, Talora Bryn (2020-04-28)

  Substantial research has been done on the electroencephalogram (EEG) neural signals generated by feedback within a simple choice task, and there is much evidence for the existence of a reward prediction error signal generated ...
• “Playing the hand you’re dealt”: an analysis of Musg̱a̱makw Dzawada̱'enux̱w traditional governance and its resurgence 

  Nicolson, Gwi'molas Ryan Silas Douglas (2020-02-06)

  The Musg̱a̱makw Dzawada̱’enux̱w have lived since time immemorial in what is now known as central British Columbia. This thesis identifies who the Musg̱a̱makw Dzawada̱’enux̱w are, their form of self-government and their ...

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