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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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 ... -
Cultural Survival Among Syrians in Cairo: The Role of Syrian Educators and Educational Centers
Syrian refugees in Egypt are using educational centers to support the preservation of their culture and way of life. This thesis takes an in-depth look at four educational centers and their cultural path through the education ... -
Clinical Nurse Educators' experiences working with Students with Mental Health Disabilities
Little research has focused on clinical nurse educators’ experiences working with students with mental health disabilities. Yet, clinical nurse educators play an important role in helping students with disabilities succeed ... -
Behind Closed Doors: Understanding How Canadian Companies Utilize Internal Communication to Engage Employees in Corporate Social Responsibility
Engaging employees in CSR programs contributes to the overall success and progress of these sustainability initiatives, while simultaneously increasing employee job satisfaction by adding meaning and purpose within the ... -
Comparison of Stormwater Quality Metal Impacts from Residential, Commercial, and Industrial Catchment Areas in Grande Prairie
Non-point source pollution from stormwater runoff is a growing issue for global surface water sustainability. Baseline water quality data from Bear Creek indicate metal contamination increases as the stream flows through ... -
Designing CMU's Social Innovation Lab
The focus of this thesis was to utilize the Action Research Engagement (ARE) process to engage stakeholders in a collaborative curriculum design process at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), to inform recommendations for ... -
Growing Change: Elevating Food Literacy Capacity through Design
This thesis employed a community-based participatory action research approach to explore how community-led design might create a hospital-based community garden and opportunities for food literacy. Design thinking was ... -
Protecting the information society : exploring corporate decision makers’ attitudes towards active cyber defence as an online deterrence option
Protecting the Information Society consists of using passwords, firewalls, encryption, and educating end users on the safe internet security practices. Beginning in the 1990’s a second option was briefly considered by ... -
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 ... -
The experience of older gay men living in non-metropolitan British Columbia
This dissertation explores the experience of non-metropolitan aging among 30 older self-identified gay men in Kelowna, the Southern Interior, Powell River, the Duncan-Nanaimo corridor, and on Salt Spring Island, British ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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