Queen's Graduate Projects: Recent submissions
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A Made-in-Muskoka Approach
(2021)The District of Muskoka is well known for being a part of Ontario's cottage country with over 650 freshwater lakes found within the upper-tier municipal boundaries. As shoreline development pressures increase, so does the ... -
Morality Across Time: Exploring the Scope of Mutual Recognition
(2020)Actions performed in the present can profoundly influence the lives of future people. This fact raises two important questions: can future people be wronged, and if so, do present people have strong reasons to refrain from ... -
Painting You, Painting Me: Viewing the 'Other' through Gendered-Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls in Kent Monkman's "Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience"
(2018-08)This paper presents a critical analysis of the ‘Other’ as a mechanism of hegemonic Eurocentric colonialism. ‘Othering’ as a methodological lens allows for consideration of the complexities of identity politics, in an ... -
Transposing Resonance: Towards an Embodied Poetics of Music
(2020-08)My project seeks to reenergize the capacity of the written word to relay differentially embodied musical experiences. I theorize writing of, and writing for, music as a processual act of transposition, working through the ... -
Commandeering a Symbol of God: Reevaluating the Use of the Chi-Rho in Roman Britain as a Sign of Imperial Authority
(2020)The Chi-Rho (☧), or Christian monogram, is one of the most common religious symbols in Christian art. Traditional archaeology has considered the presence of a chi-rho to be an indicator of a Christian artifact, as a result ... -
Meeting the Needs of Educators in Professional Development for Self-Regulated Learning: Bridging the Gap from Theory to Practice
(2020-07-30)There is a growing awareness within education of the necessity to explicitly teach self-regulated learning skills (Spruce & Bol, 2014). Documents published by the Ontario Ministry of Education, With Our Best Future in Mind ... -
Distributed Leadership and its Relationship with School Culture
(2020-08)Distributed leadership in schools is formed and developed by the interactions that take place between the various informal and formal leaders in schools. Distributed leadership is effective when it is accepted by staff who ... -
Preservation of Rat Digestive Tract by Phenol-based Embalming Solution
(Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 2020-05-17)The use of cadaver is most optimally simulated technique in surgical and anatomical training. The current standard formaldehyde fixation preserves cadaveric tissues for use for an extended period as compared to unfixed ... -
The Cannabis Quandary: Exploring the Provincial Role in Regulating Cannabis Production as a Land Use in Ontario
(2020)In 2018, Canada’s federal government legalized recreational cannabis, and an increase in cannabis production facilities appearing in Canadian communities warrants research on how to include cannabis production in land use ... -
A More Sustainable Suburb? Analyzing the Relative Sustainability of Garrison Crossing in Chilliwack, British Columbia
(2020)Given that more Canadians than ever before are living in auto-dependent suburban environments, sustainable suburban development has become a critical planning issue. Planners should identify and analyze suburban neighbourhoods ... -
Supportive Housing Case Studies: How supportive housing in Ontario and British Columbia is developed and operated
(2020-05-11)Housing is a basic need that many Canadians struggle to obtain. While some Canadians cannot afford private market housing costs, others require additional services or supports to help ensure a stable tenancy and allow them ... -
Detecting the Invisible: Early Monitoring of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms with Quantitative PCR
(2020)The emergence and persistence of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CHABs), comprising multiple toxicity-producing cyanobacteria genera, pose great threats to aquatic environments, to many native species, and to human ... -
A Training Framework for Graduate Teaching Assistants in Engineering Programs
(2020-04-30)This project proposes a professional development framework that encompasses multidimensional institutional support to graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to enhance the level of their pedagogical knowledge and skills. This ... -
Achieving Sustainable Forest Management in Tanzania: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Current Forest Protection Policies and Initiatives Designed to Stop Deforestation
(2020-04)High rates of deforestation and forest degradation occurring in many tropical and subtropical forest are major global environmental issues. Specifically, deforestation and forest degradation are significant issues within ... -
Supporting Students with Anxiety in Ontario Elementary and Secondary Schools through Professional Development for Educators
(2020-04-21)With a growing shift of responsibility placed on educators to support the mental health needs of their student in addition to academic outcomes, teachers are in need of training to prepare them for this duty. This project ... -
Spectral Analysis of Magnetometer Swing in High-Resolution UAV-borne Aeromagnetic Surveys
(IEEE, 2019-05)Electromagnetic interference produced by multirotor UAVs has the potential to compromise the integrity of UAV-borne total magnetic field (TMI) measurements collected with high-resolution optically pumped magnetometers. ... -
High-Resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aeromagnetic Surveys for Mineral Exploration Targets
(Wiley, 2019-12)Recent advancements in geophysical exploration have been realized through reliably integrating unmanned aerial vehicle platforms with lightweight, high-resolution magnetometer payloads. Unmanned aerial vehicle aeromagnetic ...