Dissertations & Theses @ RRU
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RRU learners can now make their theses available online through DSpace@RRU, our institutional repository: a digital archive of open access, scholarly works by RRU students, faculty and staff.
These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Canada License.
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Enough is Enough: Epiphanies, Voluntary Simplicity & the Good Life
What started as a mystery to unravel, a quest to identify how people might find a sense of ‘the good life’ through voluntary simplicity, turned into something much more. Through this ethnographic and ultimately philosophical ... -
#MeAfterToo—The Hashtag That Toppled Hegemons? A Feminist Narrative Case Study Of #MeToo
Unlike many less successful precursors, #MeToo exploded onto social media in a way in which previous viral feminist hashtags had not. Created by activist Tarana Burke and later picked up and amplified by multiple celebrity ... -
Creating a Procedural Framework for Restitution Between an Indigenous Family and Gold Mining Company in Northeastern Ontario
Abstract The study creates a procedural framework for establishing positive long-term working relationships around principles of consent among others between an individual Indigenous family and a gold mining company to ... -
The Influence of Government Funding on Online Course Development at Two Ontario Colleges: A help or a hindrance?
This thesis explores the influence of government funding on online course development, specifically the Shared Online Course fund offered to two Ontario colleges. It uses a qualitative case study research approach to ... -
Exploring Team Cohesion and Engagement in Long-Term Care Teams
This project utilized an action research engagement approach to inquire about cohesion and engagement in cross-functional teams of front-line staff in one long-term care organization. This inquiry engaged 13 front-line ... -
Junk in the Woods: Yukoners' Troubled Relationship to the Land
The illegal dumping of discarded materials in the Yukon wilderness is a persistent problem that governments have struggled to contain. At the same time, similar discarded materials are often celebrated as historic artifacts ... -
How Contributing Positive Real-Time Images of Nature to a Facebook Group Influences City Dwellers’ Emotions Concerning the Environment
With an increasing number of people living in urban centres and reports emerging about the negative human impacts to the planet, this study explores how contributing to the Facebook group Life in Reel Time influenced city ... -
Coral Reef Health: The Relationship Between Benthic Coral Cover and Feeding Behaviour of Chaetodon lunulatus in Indonesia
The coral reefs located in Wakatobi National Park, Indonesia are being altered by varying factors involved in climate change. The functional ecology of a reef system includes the physiological processes and functions in ... -
Traversing Culture and Academy
This inquiry was framed in Nuu-chah-nulth worldview. This thesis comes after the announcement of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (2015b) Calls to Action and demonstrates a collaboration toward reconciliation ... -
Towards Biocultural Diversity Conservation. Knowledge, Cultural Values and Governance of Species at Risk: The Case of the White Sturgeon (Canada) and the Mekong Giant Catfish (Thailand)
To better understand the concept of biocultural diversity and its value in species conservation, my research explored the role of local fishers’ knowledge and cultural values in decision-making about the conservation of ... -
Glaciers and Blueberries: Development and Trial Runs of a Field-Based Earth Science Workshop Designed for Nova Scotia Teachers
Glaciers and Blueberries was a field-based earth science workshop developed and conducted in May and October 2018 for grade 4 and 7 teachers within the Chignecto Family of Schools catchment area. Quantitative and qualitative ... -
The Art of Grief: An Autoethnography Exploring Sibling Bereavement
In this autoethnography, I explore my lived experiences of the dying and death of my brother and my grief in the six months following his death; reflect on my use of creative arts-based methods to shape and guide my grieving ... -
Helping Indigenous Students at First Nations University of Canada to Thrive
This thesis researched what makes Indigenous students thrive at FNUniv. The focus was specifically on the student perspective. This action research inquiry was led by an Indigenous methodology and complimented with an ... -
Ktunaxa Knowledge and Governance: Reframing Cumulative Effects Assessment and Management
Since the arrival of Canadian colonial administration, the Ktunaxa Nation has experienced many different types of land and resource development by outsiders within their homelands and the cumulative impacts of these ... -
The Nicaragua Canal: An exploration of Nicaragua’s Canal Laws and Their Impact on the Country’s Environment Framework
Building an inter-oceanic canal has been a dream in Nicaragua for over a century, with several attempts over this span. In 2013, the country passed two laws (Law 800, Law 840) and signed a concession agreement (MCA), ... -
The Short-term Response of Soil Mesofauna Community Density and Diversity to Dryland Reclamation Practices in Boreal Forest Soils of Northern Alberta.
Open pit mining practices, including those used in the oil sands region of Northern Alberta, disturb large areas of land and impact different soil ecosystem functions. These disturbances affect soil mesofauna communities, ... -
Response of Birds to Habitat Types, Temperature, and Precipitation in Central Parkland Natural Subregion of Beaver County, Alberta
Many avian species are in decline throughout Canada. The Alberta Central Parkland Natural Subregion may provide a stronghold for maintaining avian diversity; however, large portions of this area have been affected by human ... -
From Research to Action: Exploring Knowledge Translation with Front-Line Youth Workers
This study examined how research-with-practice knowledge translation (KT) partnerships strengthen the practice of front-line youth workers (FLYWs) through examining the needs of knowledge users. Using an action research ... -
Community Resilience to Seismic Events: A Case Study of Haida Gwaii, Canada
Small, remote communities situated along the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia are vulnerable to seismic events including earthquakes, and near- and far-field tsunamis. These have the potential to affect community ... -
Interactions and Exchanges: How ‘Frequent Fringers’ Select Shows at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival
Since 1982, the annual Edmonton Fringe Festival presents hundreds of non-juried theatrical productions by lottery application. Because theatregoing ‘Fringers’ have limited knowledge of the content of the productions on ...
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