Successful Thesis Defences - April to September, 2019

Alexandra Boston, MHIS student, successfully defended her thesis titled, “Understanding the Development of a Logic Model at a Multi-Agency Resource Centre,” in August 2019.

Eugenia Canas, HIS PhD candidate, successfully defended her thesis titled, “Working with Youth as Stakeholders in Mental Health System Transformation: An Institutional Ethnography of a Service Organization in ACCESS Open Minds”, on June 27, 2019.

Lydia Gibson, MA in Media Studies student, successfully defended her thesis, titled “Unwrapping the Toronto Christmas Market: An Examination of Tradition and Nostalgia in a Socially Constructed Space,” on May 13, 2019.

Davin Helkenberg, LIS PhD candidate, successfully defended her thesis titled, "Narratives of Sexuality in the Lives of Young Women Readers," on June 7, 2019.

Hung Huynh, MHIS student, successfully defended his thesis titled, “Post-Secondary Students’ Perceptions of Mental Health Messages Conveyed by Video Storytelling and Informational Approaches,” in August 2019.

Adam Jordan, MHIS student, successfully defended his thesis titled, “Exploring Healthcare Consumer Involvement in Clinical Practice Guideline Development,” in August 2019.

Matthew Lipson, Master of Arts in Popular Music & Culture student, successfully defended his thesis titled, "'Calling Out From Some Old Familiar Shrine': Living Archivism and Age Performativity in Bob Dylan's Late Period," on April 12, 2019.

Alyssa Logie, MA in Media Studies student, successfully defended her thesis titled, “Trauma, Creativity, And Bearing Witness Through Art: Marian Kołodziej's Labyrinth,” on June 25, 2019.

Wenxin Miao, MHIS student, successfully defended her thesis titled, “Understanding the Nursing Practices and Perspectives of Premedication and Transfusion Reaction Reporting: A Qualitative Description Study,” in August 2019.

Jill Moffatt, MHIS student, successfully defended her thesis titled, “Health Policy and Social Change: Women’s Advocacy Groups and Narrative Mobilization,” in August 2019.
 
Charlotte Panneton, MA in Media Studies student, successfully defended her thesis, titled “Appropriating Play: Examining Twitch.tv as a Commercial Platform,” on May 17, 2019.
 
Ryan Schroeder, MA in Media Studies student, successfully defended his thesis, titled “Dead Men Walking: An Analysis of Working-Class Masculinity in Post-2008 Hollywood Film,” in August 2019.
 
Kelly Shi, MA in Media Studies student, successfully defended her thesis, titled “Glocalization in China: An Analysis of Coca-Cola’s Brand Co-Creation Process with Consumers in China,” on May 13, 2019.

Emmett Robinson Smith, MA in Popular Music & Culture student, successfully defended his thesis titled, “’I Need to Fight the Power, But I Need that New Ferrari’: Conspicuous Consumption, New-School Hip-Hop and ‘The New Rock & Roll,’" on June 21, 2019.

Sherilyn Williams, LIS PhD candidate, successfully defended her thesis titled, “Strategic and Subversive: The Case of the Disappearing Diaphragm and Women’s Information Practices,” in August 2019.
 
Lydia Wilton, MA in Popular Music & Culture student, successfully defended her thesis titled, “The Elements of Production: Myth, Gender, and the ‘Fundamental Task’ of Producing Popular Music,” on June 26, 2019.