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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Building Highly Effective Teams in an Animal Welfare Organization
Optimizing team effectiveness is critical to enhancing organizational performance, maximizing available resources, and realizing mission-driven outcomes. For British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ... -
Narratives of gender and identity of young men: Education, family and community in a northern BC single industry town
This research is aimed at understanding how masculinities are developed in five males who grew up in a small northern BC community. Using narratives and autoethnography, this research shows that the community, family and ... -
Decision-Making in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Understanding the Social Processes that Influenced Decision-Making in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan from January to September 2014
The civil war that started in South Sudan in December 2013 changed the country and it changed the scale and scope of the United Nations mission that was there to assist it. The purpose of this research was to uncover how ... -
What are the attitudes of Off-Highway Vehicle users towards their environmental impacts?
This study was designed to illuminate how Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) users view their impact on, and relationship with, the environment. The target group for this study were individuals who rode any vehicle classified as ... -
łaʷeyasəns gayułas: Ancestral Teachings to Reclaim the Roles of Kwakwaka’wakw Women in Governance and Leadership
This thesis explored the ancestral teachings regarding the roles of matriarchs and women in governance and leadership as a mechanism for restoring balance in Kwakwaka’wakw families and communities. This thesis emerged from ... -
Designing Sustainable Designers
This action research based thesis uses qualitative interviews and data coding to explore the perspectives and experiences of 17 working apparel designers with sustainability within their design practice. The Disruptive ... -
Finding meaning in hospice palliative care: An interpretive phenomenological study
This interpretive phenomenological study examines five caregivers’ hospice palliative care experiences. The goal of this study was to find out how hospice palliative care became meaningful to these caregivers and what that ... -
Extracting Views About the Environment: Oilfield Workers' Understandings of Climate Issues in Moose Mountain, Saskatchewan
The purpose of this research was to describe oilfield workers in the Moose Mountain Provincial Park area in southeastern Saskatchewan views on climate change. This qualitative study, inspired by Grounded Theory, utilized ... -
Exploring Conflict within Multidisciplinary Teams in the Acute Care Setting from a Nurses Perspective
Canadian healthcare organizations are experiencing increasing challenges meeting the evolving health needs of aging and growing populations. The ability to manage conflict between multiple stakeholders with varying ... -
Digital Meditation Platforms: Searching for "App"iness
Meditation and mindfulness apps are a popular and convenient option for busy meditators to access improved mental health. Millions of people now meditate with a wearable or smartphone app, which suggests that we need to ... -
Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Co-Management in the Yukon
The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the role of Indigenous Knowledge in the context of co-management in the Yukon. The research assessed the extent to which a protected area management plan co-managed by the Yukon ... -
An Analysis of the Role of Moralizing in Conflict Performance and Behavior
In this thesis, I use the Insight approach and autoethnography to examine my own performance in a conflict that occurred during group work. I capture and analyze empirical data and develop theoretical implications about ... -
In Search of a Theory for an Age-Welcoming Society: Reconstructing Canadian Millennials’ Expectations on their Aging Journey
Numerous essays and research studies have been conducted with the objective to understand how the aging process is experienced and what social, economic, and political factors influence that process. Critical theorists ... -
Inspiring positive change in the healthcare system through love-led leadership
This inquiry explored the following key research question: How might embracing love-led leadership inspire positive change in the healthcare system in Peterborough and county? The organizational sponsor of this research ... -
Geo-environmental engineering considerations in the investigation of an embankment founded on varved clays : New Liskeard, Ontario
This thesis explores the geotechnical and environmental engineering considerations in an embankment failure as they relate to highway projects founded on soft varved clays. The main objective of this thesis is to shed light ... -
Coastal ocean dynamics and primary productivity near traditional indigenous clam gardens in Fulford Harbour, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
Along the Pacific coasts of British Columbia and Alaska, it has recently been recognized that Indigenous communities traditionally built and maintained clam gardens in the intertidal zone by clearing rocks, aerating ... -
Long-term native temperate grassland responses to warming, precipitation and defoliation in Central Alberta
Canada’s northern temperate grasslands are a large and valuable natural resource that provides widespread social, economic and environmental benefits to Canadians. Understanding how grassland vegetation is affected by ... -
Healthcare organizations' twitter communication : an integrative review
This integrative literature review examines how healthcare organizations communicate in Twitter and how they can communicate on Twitter. Twitter provides healthcare organizations with new ways to engage with the public and ... -
Climate change : current and future impacts on erosive rainfall in Calgary, Alberta
Rainfall data collected every five minutes between 1988 and 2017 at the Huntington Hills rainfall gauge in Calgary Alberta and downscaled CanRCM4 climate change data for RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 IPCC scenarios are used to ... -
Uncovering challenges : a case study identifying the barriers of introducing a proposed computer-based substance use intervention program into elementary classrooms
The purpose of this case study was to explore the problems that teachers anticipate facing when facilitating a new online computer-based substance use intervention program to grade six and seven elementary school students. ...
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