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2026-08-24
This dissertation explores doing and thinking mathematics (and) education otherwise, by thinking with mathematics itself: category theory, a high-level framework that is concerned primarily with how…
2026-09-20
Author: Yan, Andy

This is a map that visualizes the number of heat-related deaths by postal code that occurred in the City of New Westminster during the 2021 Heat Dome. Original heat death by Forward Sortation Area…

2026-09-20
Author: Yan, Andy

This is a map that visualizes the number of heat-related deaths by postal code that occurred in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia during the 2021 Heat Dome. Original heat death by Forward…

2026-09-20
Author: Yan, Andy

This is a map that visualizes the number of heat-related deaths by postal code that occurred in the City of Vancouver during the 2021 Heat Dome. Original heat death by Forward Sortation Area data…

2026-07-23
In 2024, the Government of Canada introduced study permit reforms that reshaped how universities recruit international students. This study examined how recruitment professionals at one public…
2026-07-23
Alternative credential models refer to non-traditional curriculum models, such as stacking, laddering, or micro-credentials, offered by post-secondary institutions. While much of the literature…
2025-12-10

Mitochondrial protein import is required for maintaining organellar function1. Perturbations in this process are associated with various physiological and disease conditions2…

2026-08-06
This dissertation studies how household heterogeneity and financial structures shape monetary policy transmission, welfare, and wealth inequality. The first chapter examines why identical exogenous…
2026-07-23
At a time when Canadian post-secondary institutions increasingly rely on international tuition revenue to address financial pressures, the work of admissions has become a numbers game. Undergraduate…
2026-06-30
LLMs are powerful systems that can help users with many tasks. Yet, they sometimes hallucinate answers, and there is typically no indication of the veracity of an answer, which can make such…
2026-06-18
This doctoral research investigates how contemporary Brazilian hip-hop artists mobilize digital technologies to produce decolonial forms of knowledge, cultural resistance, and political intervention…
2026-06-25
Immigrant parents of students with disabilities (IPSwDs) remain underrepresented in research on parental involvement, despite playing a vital educational role in their children's lives. Using semi-…
2026-06-25
Large language models (LLMs) and the agents built on them are increasingly used for software systems tasks, from building components of operating and distributed systems to analyzing security…
2026-08-12
Author: Abdi, Ronak

Driver drowsiness is a leading cause of road traffic accidents, motivating the development of objective methods for early fatigue detection. This thesis compares machine learning models for…

2026-08-11
Width variations, roughness, and local hydraulics control sediment transport and storage in bedrock canyons, and therefore the slope required to transport the sediment supply. Current bedrock river…
2026-07-28
When a decedent is submerged, there is no guarantee they will be found and recovered. Modern recreational fish finders are an untapped resource for underwater detection, are already widely operated…
2026-08-18
This thesis focuses on the development of colour-changing materials for cumulative exposure detection of toxic organic contaminants relevant to workplace and environmental monitoring. Unlike…
2026-08-19
This study explored the influence of socio-economic background, mathematical confidence, and ethical awareness on students' use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in mathematics learning…
2026-06-24
Learning by a River: A Narrative Inquiry of Place and Nature-based Experiential Outdoor Learning, Teaching and Educational Leadership Informed by More-than-Human Engagements is autopoietic. This…
2026-07-15
Women in sport have been disenfranchised for hundreds of years, notably in contact and combat sports, such as MMA. Research on gender and sports has looked at MMA and the UFC, but limited work has…