Queen's Graduate Projects
This is an on-line collection of the Queen's University graduate research projects and essays submitted in fulfillment of their degree requirements. Submissions are limited to officially registered Queen's University graduate students, only.
Recent Submissions
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An Evaluation of Minister’s Zoning Orders and Environmental Land Use Planning: The Case of the Fallis West Lands, Town of Cavan Monaghan, Ontario
(Vincent Wen, 2023-05)Minister’s Zoning Orders (MZOs) are a provincial tool that bypasses the formal planning process to expedite priorities of the provincial government. The Fallis West property is a 49.2 hectare site, municipally known as 787 ... -
How the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation Influenced Suburban Community Planning and Design in Post-WWII Canada
(2023-05-05)The Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC – now the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation), a federal agency, was instrumental in Canada’s suburbanization. The immediate post-WWII period of 1945-1969 saw many ... -
Building Your Eco Career: Engineering Skills for the Green Economy
(2023-05-01)The focus of this project was to outline the importance of the green economy and the specific impact undergraduate engineers can have on the sustainable development of the global economy by entering green careers through ... -
COVID Commuting: Examining the Commute Patterns of Queen's University Employees Throughout the Pandemic
(2023-04-21)The COVID-19 pandemic drastically altered commute patterns across the world. Employees started working from home, avoiding transit, and walking and biking for recreation. Queen's University in Kingston, ON is no exception ... -
Fresh Ideas: Pop-ups and Planning for the City of Calgary Farm Stand Program
(2023-04)Direct food distribution such as farmers markets, farm stands, and u-pick stands are alternatives to conventional food models like grocery store chains. The City of Calgary’s Farm Stand Program aims to provide places, in ... -
A Watershed Moment at the Fairy Creek Watershed? B.C. Forestry Policy and Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
(2023-04)Logging protests at Clayoquot Sound (1993) and at Fairy Creek (2021) targeted the harvest of old-growth trees in BC’s temperate rainforest. This paper examines these protests through the lens of punctuated equilibrium ... -
An Examination of Practitioner Perceptions of Older Adult Play in Victoria, British Columbia
(2023-03)The Canadian population is aging rapidly, with approximately 18 percent of the population currently over the age of 65. By 2068, the older adult population could account for up to 30 percent of the Canadian population, ... -
Playing in Place: An Analysis of Enabling and Limiting Play Environments Through the Lens of Older Adults in Victoria, B.C.
(2023)Populations around the world are aging—fast. This unprecedented shift has led many to question whether cities are ready to meet the needs of an aging population. Because older adults are more likely to spend time in their ... -
Reassessing the Presence of Women at Humayma in a Regional Context Across the Nabataean and Roman Cultures
(2023-03)First recognized by scholars as an important area of study in the 1970s, research on the female presence and experience in antiquity has grown to become a major area of scholarship in classical studies and archaeology. ... -
The Eco-Existential Threatometer: A Pedagogical Approach to Eco-Anxieties
(2023-03)The impact environmental events related to climate change and the ecological crisis have on one's mental and emotional health is a growing area of research, but many questions remain. An increase in poor mental health ... -
Evaluating Transit-Supportive Development Policy along Waterloo Region's LRT Corridor
(2023)The Region of Waterloo is rapidly growing and is expected to undergo a population increase of 57% over the next 30 years. Responding to these projections, the Region has adopted various growth management and mobility ... -
The Future of Trade is Inclusive: Canada’s Approach to Globalised Free Trade
(2022-11-03)In response to people feeling left behind from experiencing trade-related gains, Canada has developed “inclusive” trade policies that attempt to redistribute trade- related opportunities to traditionally underrepresented ... -
The Case for Archaeogaming and Affectiveness: Olympia as a Case Study in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
(2022-10)This research utilizes a twofold approach: the general framework of archaeogaming; and the theoretical position of affective history. Using the video game Assassin’s Creed Odyssey as a case study, this research paper ... -
Conflict Archaeology and Classics: Reconstructing the Roman Sieges of La Cloche, Monte Bernorio, and Gamla
(2022-10)Conflict archaeology is a new and emerging subdiscipline of archaeology concerned with the study of battlefields, sieges, as well as other conflict-related phenomena. Despite its relative youth, this discipline has already ... -
Applying Spatial Reference to the Late Antique Settlement at Stobi, Republic of North Macedonia
(2022-09)The archaeological site of Stobi is located in the Vardar Valley (Повадарие) region in the vicinity of the village Gradsko, Republic of North Macedonia. It is located on the confluence of Vardar River (Axios) and Crna River ... -
Growing the Resilience and Well-Being of Novice Female School Administrators: The Development of a Training Module and Toolkit for Ontario Principal Training Programs
(2022-08)The job responsibilities associated with the position of a school administrator have never been straightforward and have become even more complex as the workload has intensified throughout the first part of the 21st century. ... -
Bridging Urban Planning and Public Health: Investigating the Relationship Between Land Use Change and Vector-Borne Disease Risks in Ontario
(2022-09-14)Zoonotic and vector-borne diseases are diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans, and incidences of zoonotic spillover are on the rise globally due to several anthropogenic factors which have intensified the ... -
The Effects of School Leadership and Collaborative Teachers on Rigorous Instruction
(2022-09)School leadership and collaborative teachers’ effects on rigorous instruction are concepts that aid in enhancing performance and positive development of students’ academic achievement. However, these concepts have not been ... -
Murphy, MacMurchy, and McClung: The Intersection of Eugenics and First-Wave Feminism
(2022-09-10)Feminists during the first wave made a significant contribution to Canadian society by promoting women’s equality. They worked towards better treatment for women through reforms that included the right to vote and dealt ... -
It’s the End of the World as Christian Zionists Know It (and They Feel Fine): Finding the Apocalypse Among the Privileged
(2022-08)This project aims to develop a theory of collective memory that is better able to account for the Evangelical employment of apocalyptic themes and tropes, especially as it concerns American politics and policies. This ...
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