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Spring 2014

Peske, Sylvia K.

Adolescents’ safety on the Internet is a prime concern in society. Sexual predators use the online environment regularly to solicit adolescents for sexual purposes; however, we know very little about the experiences of adolescents who become victimized in this way. This research used a thematic...

Fall 2019

Arshad, Amira

The thesis explores perceptions of and ideas about mystery hominoids, and focuses more specifically on the western Canadian category named ‘sasquatch’ or ‘bigfoot’. Over the last several decades, there has appeared a limited though quite varied literature on sasquatch and other mystery hominoids...

Fall 2019

Davie, Jenna

The purpose of this participatory research was to explore connections with the land in an urban sport context among Indigenous youth. Two research questions guided this study: (a) What does a connection with the land look like in an urban sport context?, and (b) How can connections with the land...

Fall 2009

Forbes, Laura

Due to the increase in type 2 diabetes in the child and adolescent population, examining the lifestyle habits of youth has become important. The purpose of this research was to examine the presence of dietary and physical activity risk factors for type 2 diabetes among youth in Alberta and to...

Fall 2010

Henshaw, Jonathan

In this thesis, I explore the experiences of some 2,000 allied civilians in the Japanese-run Weihsien Internment Camp (濰縣集中營) in Shandong, China from 1943 to 1945. Beyond serving as a counterpoint to the Japanese internment in North America during the Second World War, the Weihsien Camp also...

Spring 2021

Longley, Hereward

This dissertation examines the first development phase of the Alberta oil sands industry from the 1960s to the early 1990s. It draws on public and private records from archives in Canada and the United States, the results of collaborative research with the Fort McMurray Métis, and oral history...

Spring 2019

Jackson, Emma

On May 3rd, 2016, a wildfire swept through the Northern Alberta resource community of Fort McMurray, scouring the political-economic landscape of what has become a notorious outpost of transnational capital and leading to the largest prolonged evacuation in Canadian history. In serving as the...

Spring 2015

Highet, Megan J.

The research upon which this thesis is based explores the concept of ‘doing ethnography in the archives’ as a methodology to inform a case-study approach to studying the historic population of stampeders residing in and around Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush. As an example of research...

Spring 2022

Ostrem, Julie A

Collaboration, as both the practice of working together and building organizational resilience, is paramount to addressing the complex problems of current conservation efforts. In an attempt to balance the social and ecological worlds, UNESCO Biosphere Regions/Reserves (BRs) outline collaboration...

Spring 2012

Suleman, Salima

This thesis project analyzed the efficacy of a single exposure to interprofessional education (IPE) for education and speech-language pathology (SLP) pre-professionals. The effects of IPE were shown through analysis of participant responses related to personal reflections, professional roles,...