Alumni Research Areas

Check out the diversity of these theses from our IDPhD alumni since the program's launch in the mid-1980s (DalSpace links provided where available):

Student Graduation year Thesis title
Brown, Maggie 2022 "Intergenerational Effects of Maternal Health on Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes in Nova Scotian Children"
Denny, Shelley 2022 "Ankukamkua’tu, ‘Doing Treaty’: An Alternative Fisheries Governance Model for Mi’kmaq Aboriginal and Treaty Rights to Fish in Nova Scotia"
Fournier, Cathy 2022 "Turning poison into Medicine: Creating Space for the Sacred and Decolonizing Health Care"
Sinan, Hussain 2022 "Equitable tuna governance in the Indian Ocean"
Weitzman, Jenny 2022 "Holistic carrying capacity for salmon aquaculture: The implication of social values"
Tearo, Khalid 2021 "Exposure: A Conceptual Framework for End Users Engagement Through Complexities-Driven Participatory Design for Patient-Facing Systems"
Schiller, Laurenne 2021 "On the influence of private stakeholders in the governance of international tuna fisheries"
MacKeigan, Cat 2021 "Performing Public Policy - An Institutional Ethnography of the Relationship Between Nova Scotia's Provincial Government and the Professional Theatre Sector"
Packer, Helen 2021 "The Accountability of Corporate Social Responsibility In The Seafood Industry - A Focus on Transparency Tools"
Alyami, Eman 2021 "Women’s Contextual Online Social Identity Formation Model: A Case Study from the Saudi Twittersphere"
Taylor, Aaron 2021 "Paleogeography, Sea-level Change and the Peopling of the Maritimes: an Archaeological Perspective"
Rand, Jenny R. 2020 "Qun’ngiaqtiarlugu (taking a closer look) at Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit in Community-Based Participatory Research"
Trenaman, Shanna C. 2020 "Sex, Drugs and Dementia"
Wallace, Lindsay 2020 "Investigating the Role of Frailty in the Expression of Dementia"
Daley, Kiley 2020 "Human Health Risks Associated with Wastewater Treatment in Arctic Canada"
Khoshaim, Lama S. 2020 "The Development, Evaluation, and Implementation of a Motivations Scale in the Context of the Second Screen Experience"
Ayer, Nathan 2020 "Dismantling the Green Machine: A Critical Reflection on Technology and Ecomodern Environmental Policy"
McManus, Justin F. 2020 "Consumer Self-development: Construct Validity and Nomological Network of a New Dimension of Consumer Well-being and the Consequences for Product Evaluations and Brand Judgements"
Ashrafi, Mehrnaz 2020 "Corporate Sustainability in Maritime Ports"
Poertner, Julia 2020 "Narratives of Nature and Culture: The Cultural Ecology of Elisabeth Mann Borgese"
Muaror, Jieni F. 2020 "Exploring Risk and Resilience Concepts: A Social-Ecological Coastal Community Case Study From Southwest New Brunswick, Canada"
Pelley, Emily 2019 "Canada's Policy Response to Refugee Young People From War-Affected Regions: The Case of Halifax Nova Scotia"
Dang, Tuan Anh 2019 "Making Sense of Social Media Text and the Spread of Rumours in Online Social Networks - An Interdisciplinary Approach"
Sweeney, Crystal 2019 "Investigation of Carcinogenic Pesticide-Associated N-Nitroso Compounds in Human Serum and Urine in Prince Edward Island"
Doda, Hillary 2019 "The Acadian of our Fancy Clothing, Community, and Identity Among the Neutral French, C. 1670-1750"
Hernandez, Kimberley 2019 "Exploring Food Literacy in Nova Scotia Public Schools: A Critical Analysis"
Conrad, Colin 2019 "A Neurophysical Study of the Impact of Mind Wandering During Online Lectures"
Wong, Dennis 2018 "Inferring Orthologous Relationships and Gene Transfer in Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes"
Spencer, Rebecca 2018 "Picture Perfect? Gazing into Girls' Health, Physical Activity and Nutrition through Photovoice"
Bailey, Julie 2018 "Incorporating Sustainable Energy Decisions in Agriculture"
Mendoza, Castrejon 2018 "A Spatially Explicit Integrated Assessment of a Social-Ecological System: The Galapagos Spiny Lobster Fishery"
Lu, Ping 2018 "Tai Chi: A New and Ancient Reality: The Socio-Cultural Context of Older People who Practice Tai Chi in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Jinan, China"
Wei, Yifeng 2017 "Defining Mental Health Literacy, Developing A Mental Health Literacy Measurement Tool, and Establishing Its Reliability and Validity in Secondary Schools in Canada"
Cheng, Calvino 2017 "Truism (Transfusion Inventory Process Mining Framework): A Process Mining-Based Framework for Understanding Blood Transfusion Product Inventories"
Kristjansdottir, Olof 2017 "The Role of Culture in Pain-Related Caregiver Behavior: Comparing Canadian, Icelandic, and Thai Caregivers of 6-12-Year-Old Children"
Sim, Meaghan 2017 "An exploration of breastfeeding practices among Nova Scotia women classified as obsese and income-related food insecure"
St-Jacques, Nathalie 2016 "Risk of urinary tract cancer from exposure to arsenic in drinking water"
Soomai, Suzette 2016 "Science and Policy-Making for Fisheries Management: Use and Influence of Fisheries Information Produced by Governmental Organizations"
Melathopoulos, Andony 2016 "Ecosystem Services, Context and the Social Basis for Conservation: The Case of Insect Pollination Benefits to Lowbush Blueberry"
Murdoch, Jennifer 2016 "Development and Validation of the Readiness To Collaborate Scale (RCS)"
Hennessey, Sean 2016 "An Assessment of the Effectiveness of a Comprehensive Multiple Health Behaviour Change Intervention in the Workplace: A Mixed Methods Study"
McSweeney, Jill 2016 "Nurturing Nature and the Human Psyche: Understanding the impact of indoor nature exposure and well-being"
Huybers, Sherry 2016 "An Exploration of the Gendered Culture of Mountain Biking in Nova Scotia"
Hamilton-Hinch, Barb 2016 "Surviving the Impact of the Experience of Racism on Health and Well-Being: An Exploration of Women of African Ancestry Living in Nova Scotia"
Didkowsky, Nora 2016 "A Substantive Theory of Youth Resilience in Rural Nova Scotia"
Canning, Gregory 2016 "Modernizing the Maritime: English Film Exhibition in the Maritime Provinces, 1896-1919"
Baechler, Jennifer 2016 "Operationalizing 'Whole-of-Government' As An Approach to State Fragility and Instability: Case Studies From Ottawa, Canada and London, United Kingdom"
Balish, Shea Michael 2016 "An Intuitionist Model of Sport Motivation"
Montiel, Roberto 2015 "Who Says I? The Self-Creation of Self-Expression and the Singular Case of Guillermo Cabrera Infante"
Ashley-Martin, Jillian 2015 "Prenatal Exposure to Environmental Contaminants and Newborn Immune System Biomarkers"
Kot, Megan 2015 "Readiness for Ensuring Safe Drinking Water in Small Community Systems"
Numer, Matthew S 2015 "Gay Men's Sexual Subjectivities in the Age of HIV-AIDS: A Poststructural Discourse Analysis of Activists' Experiences in Nova Scotia"
Woodill, Sharon 2014 "Gender and Sexuality in the Origins Debate"
Toze, Sandra 2014 "Group Information Processes: Examining How Student Groups Identify Their Needs, Find and Use Information to Accomplish Complex Tasks and Collaborate"
Stewart, Samuel A 2014 "Combining Social Network and Semantic Content Analysis to Improve Knowledge Translation in Online Communities of Practice"
Ordonez, Camilo 2014 "Urban forests & climate change"
Michels, David 2014 "Seeking the will of God: The Information Seeking Experiences of Leaders of Nova Scotia Churches in Transition"
Campbell, Leslie Anne 2014 "Understanding the population, health system resource and access effects of colorectal cancer screening in Nova Scotia using simulation modelling"
Allan, Robert 2014 "Phenomenol Exploration of Couple and Family Therapists Learning and Using an Evidence-Based Practice"
McCay-Peet, Lori 2014 "Facilitating serendipity in digital environments"
Bigney, Kate 2013 "The Difference a Discourse Makes: Fisheries and Oceans Policy and Coastal Communities in the Canadian Maritime Provinces"
Richardson, Holly 2013 "Seeing the Arcane in the Mundane: The Spiritual as Lived by Ill Children"
Scully, Sheryl 2013 "The Maladaptive Threats of Identity Limbo and Cohesion Resistance: A Qualitative Case Study Examining the Challenges of Over-inclusion and Status and Dominance Confusion"
Wilson, Jeffrey 2013 "Rethinking economics: Accounting for environmental impact at the local level"
Goldstein, Judah 2013 "The assessment of frailty in community-dwelling older adults: A feasibility and validation study"
Bradbee, Cheryl 2013 "The social and spatial dynamics of an urban ecology, water and sanitation management in early modern Piacenza"
Fredericks, Evan 2013 "Some women and just so much better than me": Governmentality enacted through the breast cancer social movement"
Urquhart, Robin 2013 "Multi-level factors influence the implementation and use of complex innovations in cancer care: A multiple case study of synoptic reporting in Nova Scotia"
Paul, Robert 2013 "The philosophy and physics of relationality and inherent nature: Shunyata and Svabhava in Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy, western analytic metaphysics, philosophy of science and physics"
Allam, Hesham 2013 "Social, technical, and organizational determinants of employees' participation in enterprise social tagging tools: A conceputal model and an empirical investigation"
Singer, Verona 2012 "Tensions in the dominant domestic violence discourse and the high risk case coordination protocol"
Kamara, Abu 2012 "International students and the politics of growth"
Choptiani, John 2012 "A multi-criteria decision analysis and risk assessment model for carbon capture and storage"
Bishop (Scobie), Andrea 2012 "Perceptions of patient safety: What influences patient and provider involvement?"
MacKenzie, Diane Ellen 2012 "What are you looking at? Investigating visual observational behaviour of occupational therapists and untrained observers"
Sable, David 2012 "The impacts of reflective practices in the dispositions for critical thinking in undergraduate courses"
Cottreau-Robins, Catherine 2012 "A loyalist plantation in Nova Scotia, 1784-1800"
Makani, Joyline 2012 "Knowledge management in knowledge-intensive organizations: An investigation of factors influencing choices of knowledge management systems"
McWilliam, Susan 2012 "An investigation into the development and content of HIV prevention and harm reduction policies in Nova Scotia: Does theory address the needs of women who inject drugs?"
Batt, Sharon 2012 "From grass roots to pharma partnerships: Breast cancer advocacy in Canada"
den Heyer, Molly 2012 "The reshaping of aid effectiveness policies in the international, Canadian and Tanzanian contexts"
Belluccini, Federica 2011 "'A much milder medium': English and German women writers in Italy 1840 - 1880"
Levesque, Richard 2011 " A latent growth curve analysis of neighbourhood and family influences on Canadian children's prosocial behaviour development trajectories"
Clow Bohan, Margaret 2011 "'They come in wearing their rank': The dynamics of an inter-professional proposal writing team"
Roach, David 2011 "Product management as firm capability"
Forgeron, Paula 2011 "My friends don't reall understand me: Examining close friendships of adolescents with chronic pain"
Sampalli, Tara 2011 "Development and evaluation of boundary objects in the heterogeneous domain of complex chronic conditions"
Perron, Genevieve Mirelle 2011 "Organizational community characteristics and barriers to environmental management:  Addressing the role of communities of practice, language, and mental models in organizational change”
Terashima, Mikiko 2011 “Geographical epidemiology of health and deprivation:  A population-based, spatio-temporal analysis of health and social inequality in Nova Scotia, Canada”
Lingley-Pottie, Patricia 2011 "Children and parents' experiences with distance mental health treatment"
Taber, Michael 2010 "Human systems integration and situation awareness in microworlds: An examination of emergency response within the offshore command and control training system"
Simpson, Anna Catherine 2010 "Negotiating hope in a context of uncertainty: End-of-life care dialogue in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)"
Andrew, Melissa K 2010 "Social vulnerability and health in older adults"
Barnard, Dorothy 2010 "Envisioning pathways to community health through the eyes of north end Haligonians"
Abidi, Samina Raza 2010 "A knowledge management framework to develop, model, align and operationalize clinical pathways to provide decision support for comorbid diseases"
Mercer Clarke, Colleen 2010 "Rethinking responses to coastal problems: An analysis of the opportunities and constraints for Canada"
Pelletier, Nathaniel 2010 "What's at steak? Ecological economical sustainability and the ethical, environmental, and policy implications for global livestock production"
Hutchinson, Paula 2010 "Predictors of better health outcomes in mothers of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder"
Salmon, Nancy 2009 "'We just stick together': Centering the friendships of disabled youth"
Martin, Debbie 2009 "Food stories: A Labrador Inuit-Metis community speaks about global change"
Joseph, Alain 2009 "Evaluating bioenergy supply using spatial simulations"
Hadjkarim, Kharrazi Hadi 2009 "Can video games improve adherence to treatment in children with chronic diseases?"
Curran, Janet 2009 "Development of a knowledge exchange and utilization model for emergency practice"
Znajda, Sandra 2009 "Housing change without numbers: evaluating social development in agroforestry conservation and development initiatives in Nicaragua"
Zir, Alessandro 2009 "The 16th C Corpus of the Portuguese colonizers about Brazil and Christian neo-platoism: An approach in terms of styles of thinking"
Hartnell, Nicole 2009 "Identifying, understanding, and overcoming barriers to medication error reporting in hospitals in Nova Scotia"
Finkler, Lilith 2009 "Sane-itized space: Understandings of psychiatric impairment/disability at the Ontario Municipal Board"
Van Wilgenburg, Hendricus 2009 "Democracy in environment impact assessment: The politics of participation and well-being"
Middleton, Laura 2008 "The epidemiology of cognitive change in older age in relation to physical activity"
O'Brien, Heather 2008 "Defining and measuring engagement in user experiences with technology"
Durrant, Matthew 2008 "A Study of the determinants of body mass index in a population of Nova Scotia youth"
Lipp, Judith 2008 "Greening the grid: Policy considerations for renewable electricity in Canada"
Ackroyd-Stolarz, Stacy 2008 "Patient safety in an aging population: Challenges & strategies for change"
Flouris, Andreas 2007 "The functional architecture of the human thermoregulatory system"
Gilbert, Bruce 2007 "Collaborative synergy in resource and environmental management"
Luttermann, Annette 2007 "Historical changes in the riparian habitats of Labrador's Churchill River due to flow regulation: The imperative of cululative effects assessment"
Arce-Ibarra, Ana Minerva 2007 "Livelihoods, aquatic resources and non-monetary values of local natural resources in Mexico's Lowland Maya area"
Bruce, Beth 2007 "Risk taking among children with and without ADHD
Groves, Kent 2006 "The influence of pharmaceutical marketing activity, practice characteristics and physician profile on physician prescribing behaviour"
Angulo-Valdes, Jorge 2005 "Effectiveness of a Cuban marine protected area in meeting multiple management objectives"
Maddelena, Victor 2005 "Attending to the health needs of African Nova Scotians: Exploring the role of district health authorities"
Jahangir, Alireza 2004 "Thermomechanical characterization of rapid thermal denaturation in load-bearing collagenous cardiac tissues under isometric constraints
Penaloza, Eladio 2004 "Electronic commerce and the strategic management of deep-sea container shipping companies: An exploratory study"
Loppie, Charlotte 2004 "Grandmothers' voices: Mi'kmaq women and menopause"
MacInnes, W. Joseph 2003 "Learning dynamic stereotypes for effective autonomous agents"
Fanning, Lucia 2003 "Towards an understanding of the role of core values and policy networks to influence decision-making in an evolving ocean governance era: A Maritimes Canada study"
Comeau, Margaret Nancy 2003 "Framing solutions: Adolescent girls and their relationships with alcohol"
Muhammad, Yusran 2002 Ponggawa-sawi relationship in co-management: An interdisciplinary analysis of coastal resource management in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Neeru, Shrestha 2000 "Forest control, development and state formation in Nepal"
Clovis, Joanne 2000 "Professionalism in dental hygiene: An investigation of knowledge of oral cancel and public policy"
Haak, Christian 2000 "The concept of equilibrium in population ecology"
McGraw, Patricia 1998 "Changing contracts: The impact of lender environmental liability on secured debt, corporate financing abd public policy"
Beazley, Karen 1998 "A focal-species approach to biodiversity management in Nova Scotia"
Boyle, Mark 1997 "Database querying with direct manipulation"
Unruh, Anita 1996 "The influence of gender on appraisal of pain and pain coping strategies"
Si, Zhizhong 1993 "A theoretical framework for social impact analysis with special reference to population relocation at the Mactaquac Dam Project on the Saint John River
Juckes, Timothy 1993 "The individual-society connection: Action and change in the lives of Matthews, Mandela and Biko"
Manuel, Patricia 1992 "A landscape approach to the interpretation, evaluation and management of wetlands"
Rohkmin, Dahuri 1992 "An approach to coastal resource utilization: The nature and role of sustainable development in East Kalimantan coastal zone, Indonesia
Ireland, Alicia 1990 "An intelligent decision support system for debt management"