Browsing Dissertations & Theses @ RRU by Title
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Factors affecting post-secondary pathway choices
(2018-07-24)University has long been considered the gold standard for post-secondary education. This study used a survey of current post-secondary students enrolled in a science or engineering program at an Ontario university in order ... -
Factors influencing community recovery decision making : a case study of recovery from the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfires
(2018-05-08)When large-scale disasters impact entire communities, entire communities must in turn collectively negotiate the recovery process and the associated recovery decisions. While these decisions affect the recovery outcomes ... -
Family Nature Clubs: Exploring the Parent-Child-Nature Relationship
(2017-07-13)Because parents have been found to ultimately influence the degree to which their children have contact with the natural world (Chawla, 2015; Clements, 2004; Louv, 2005, Rivkin, 1998; Sobel, 2008), the parent-child-nature ... -
Fear and power in Northern Uganda : a symbolic interactionist approach
(2013-05-17)This thesis explores how fear is used as a communication strategy to create and enhance power in conflict setting. I drew the data from six in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted in northern Uganda, a region that ... -
“Fear promotes the status quo” : surveillance discourses and environmental activism in Canada
(2018-06-29)This paper explores the topics of state surveillance and democratic participation. It examines how targeted surveillance—backed by the implicit threat of state violence—shapes the behaviour and sense of identity of Canadian ... -
Finding meaning in hospice palliative care : an interpretive phenomenological study
(2019-03-07)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 ... -
Fisheries-related collaboration in the Skeena River Watershed : impacts and implications of historical conflict
(2016-05-27)Conflict has surrounded Skeena fisheries management on British Columbia's north coast for decades however limited Skeena-specific collaborative fisheries management research (Jones, 2006; Knox, 2008; Pinkerton, 1996, 2009b; ... -
Forest patch size and breeding territory selection by coastal swainson's thrush (Catharus ustulatis ustulatis) in BC's Georgia Basin
(2014-11-05)Many of North America's 250 species of Neotropical migrant songbirds have declined in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Forest fragmentation can introduce limiting factors to bird habitats as edge to interior ratios ... -
Forming preschoolers' environmental attitude : lasting effects of early childhood environmental education
(2009-05-23)Since 1987, the Kerry Wood Nature Centre has run a nature preschool for three-five old children. This study shows the affect it had on the environmental attitudes of former participants, who were 10-12 years old at the ... -
Fostering a collaborative culture through effective business practice at NAIT
(2015-07-03)This organizational leadership project investigated how the employees at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) may enhance their collaboration across departments, in particular, when managing key data systems. ... -
Fostering research uptake and evidence-use in applied clinical settings
(2014-07-28)Radiation Therapy health care practitioners need access to actionable, evidence-based, and solution-focused research in order to make the best clinical decisions possible. This paper presents a qualitative case study which ... -
Fostering social presence on the virtual learning teams in the Master of Arts programs in the School of Education and Technology at Royal Roads University
(2017-06-16)Social presence is a key factor in student satisfaction and success in online courses and a marker for whether one has an online learning experience that is engaged, vibrant, and connected, or simply perfunctory. Royal ... -
From avoidance to mitigation : engaged communication to identify and mitigate mining impacts on communities
(2014-11-04)Active listening facilitates the identification of impacts and mitigation strategies of Sama Nickel's mining exploration activities on an Ivorian, West African community. Early awareness of potential negative impacts to ... -
From cultural to supporting ecosystem services, the value of shelterbelts to prairie agriculture, Canada
(2014-01-27)Shelterbelts were established in the Canadian Prairies as a means to protect soil from wind erosion. Knowledge gaps remain about shelterbelts' ecosystem services to the agro-landscape, hence hiding farmers' trade-offs in ... -
From knife to nebulous : physician leadership in the procedures suite
(2015-03-19)At BC Children's Hospital, physician leaders face complex environments replete with ambiguity. In anticipation of the new Acute Care Centre (ACC), a "procedures suite" clinical model will bring Surgery, Anaesthesiology, ... -
From page to practice : communication theory and its value for public relations educators and practitioners
(2011-12-20)A robust scholarly discussion had been conducted for more than 30 years on the professional impact of theory on communication practice, including Vocate‘s important observation in 1997 that a rigorous education in theory ... -
From research to action : exploring knowledge translation with front-line youth workers
(2019-04-20)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 ... -
From trees to bluebirds : the impact of engagement and framing on the communication of conservation on Vancouver Island
(2017-08-25)The study addresses how strategic social media messaging affects awareness and understanding of scientific discourse around conservation issues. The media effects literature suggests that conservation non-governmental ... -
Front-line perspectives : conceptualizations of trauma, adversity, resilience, and community and social support
(2019-09-07)This qualitative graduate-level study examines front-line community and social service professionals’ conceptualizations of resilience and the role of community and social support among survivors of trauma or adversity and ... -
Fueling change? Exploring guilt in climate change communications
(2015-09-24)This study used a primarily qualitative, mixed methods approach to explore the use of guilt appeals in climate change communications. To ground the research, the study used a recent example of guilt in climate change ...
