Alumni Research Areas
Check out the diversity of these theses from our IDPhD alumni since the program's launch in the mid-1980s (DalSpace links provided where available):
| Student | Graduation year | Thesis title | 
| Brown, Maggie | 2022 | "Intergenerational Effects of Maternal Health on Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes in Nova Scotian Children" | 
| Denny, Shelley | 2022 | |
| Fournier, Cathy | 2022 | "Turning poison into Medicine: Creating Space for the Sacred and Decolonizing Health Care" | 
| Sinan, Hussain | 2022 | |
| Weitzman, Jenny | 2022 | |
| Tearo, Khalid | 2021 | |
| Schiller, Laurenne | 2021 | |
| MacKeigan, Cat | 2021 | "Performing Public Policy - An Institutional Ethnography of the Relationship Between Nova Scotia's Provincial Government and the Professional Theatre Sector" | 
| Packer, Helen | 2021 | "The Accountability of Corporate Social Responsibility In The Seafood Industry - A Focus on Transparency Tools" | 
| Alyami, Eman | 2021 | |
| Taylor, Aaron | 2021 | |
| Rand, Jenny R. | 2020 | "" | 
| Trenaman, Shanna C. | 2020 | "" | 
| Wallace, Lindsay | 2020 | "" | 
| Daley, Kiley | 2020 | |
| Khoshaim, Lama S. | 2020 | |
| Ayer, Nathan | 2020 | "" | 
| McManus, Justin F. | 2020 | "" | 
| Ashrafi, Mehrnaz | 2020 | "Corporate Sustainability in Maritime Ports" | 
| Poertner, Julia | 2020 | "" | 
| Muaror, Jieni F. | 2020 | "" | 
| Pelley, Emily | 2019 | "" | 
| Dang, Tuan Anh | 2019 | "" | 
| Sweeney, Crystal | 2019 | "Investigation of Carcinogenic Pesticide-Associated N-Nitroso Compounds in Human Serum and Urine in Prince Edward Island" | 
| Doda, Hillary | 2019 | "The Acadian of our Fancy Clothing, Community, and Identity Among the Neutral French, C. 1670-1750" | 
| Hernandez, Kimberley | 2019 | "" | 
| Conrad, Colin | 2019 | "A Neurophysical Study of the Impact of Mind Wandering During Online Lectures" | 
| Wong, Dennis | 2018 | "" | 
| Spencer, Rebecca | 2018 | "Picture Perfect? Gazing into Girls' Health, Physical Activity and Nutrition through Photovoice" | 
| Bailey, Julie | 2018 | "" | 
| Mendoza, Castrejon | 2018 | "" | 
| Lu, Ping | 2018 | "" | 
| Wei, Yifeng | 2017 | "Defining Mental Health Literacy, Developing A Mental Health Literacy Measurement Tool, and Establishing Its Reliability and Validity in Secondary Schools in Canada" | 
| Cheng, Calvino | 2017 | "" | 
| Kristjansdottir, Olof | 2017 | "" | 
| Sim, Meaghan | 2017 | "" | 
| St-Jacques, Nathalie | 2016 | "" | 
| Soomai, Suzette | 2016 | "Science and Policy-Making for Fisheries Management: Use and Influence of Fisheries Information Produced by Governmental Organizations" | 
| Melathopoulos, Andony | 2016 | "" | 
| Murdoch, Jennifer | 2016 | "" | 
| Hennessey, Sean | 2016 | "" | 
| McSweeney, Jill | 2016 | "" | 
| Huybers, Sherry | 2016 | "" | 
| Hamilton-Hinch, Barb | 2016 | "" | 
| Didkowsky, Nora | 2016 | "" | 
| Canning, Gregory | 2016 | "" | 
| Baechler, Jennifer | 2016 | "" | 
| Balish, Shea Michael | 2016 | "" | 
| Montiel, Roberto | 2015 | "" | 
| Ashley-Martin, Jillian | 2015 | "" | 
| Kot, Megan | 2015 | "" | 
| Numer, Matthew S | 2015 | "" | 
| Woodill, Sharon | 2014 | "Gender and Sexuality in the Origins Debate" | 
| Toze, Sandra | 2014 | "" | 
| Stewart, Samuel A | 2014 | "Combining Social Network and Semantic Content Analysis to Improve Knowledge Translation in Online Communities of Practice" | 
| Ordonez, Camilo | 2014 | "" | 
| Michels, David | 2014 | "Seeking the will of God: The Information Seeking Experiences of Leaders of Nova Scotia Churches in Transition" | 
| Campbell, Leslie Anne | 2014 | "Understanding the population, health system resource and access effects of colorectal cancer screening in Nova Scotia using simulation modelling" | 
| Allan, Robert | 2014 | "Phenomenol Exploration of Couple and Family Therapists Learning and Using an Evidence-Based Practice" | 
| McCay-Peet, Lori | 2014 | "" | 
| Bigney, Kate | 2013 | "" | 
| Richardson, Holly | 2013 | "" | 
| Scully, Sheryl | 2013 | "" | 
| Wilson, Jeffrey | 2013 | "" | 
| Goldstein, Judah | 2013 | "" | 
| Bradbee, Cheryl | 2013 | "" | 
| Fredericks, Evan | 2013 | "Some women and just so much better than me": Governmentality enacted through the breast cancer social movement" | 
| Urquhart, Robin | 2013 | "" | 
| Paul, Robert | 2013 | "" | 
| Allam, Hesham | 2013 | "" | 
| Singer, Verona | 2012 | "" | 
| Kamara, Abu | 2012 | "" | 
| Choptiani, John | 2012 | "" | 
| Bishop (Scobie), Andrea | 2012 | "" | 
| MacKenzie, Diane Ellen | 2012 | "" | 
| Sable, David | 2012 | "The impacts of reflective practices in the dispositions for critical thinking in undergraduate courses" | 
| Cottreau-Robins, Catherine | 2012 | "" | 
| Makani, Joyline | 2012 | "" | 
| McWilliam, Susan | 2012 | "" | 
| Batt, Sharon | 2012 | "" | 
| den Heyer, Molly | 2012 | " | 
| Belluccini, Federica | 2011 | "'" | 
| Levesque, Richard | 2011 | " A latent growth curve analysis of neighbourhood and family influences on Canadian children's prosocial behaviour development trajectories" | 
| Clow Bohan, Margaret | 2011 | "'" | 
| Roach, David | 2011 | "Product management as firm capability" | 
| Forgeron, Paula | 2011 | "My friends don't reall understand me: Examining close friendships of adolescents with chronic pain" | 
| Sampalli, Tara | 2011 | "Development and evaluation of boundary objects in the heterogeneous domain of complex chronic conditions" | 
| Perron, Genevieve Mirelle | 2011 | "Organizational community characteristics and barriers to environmental management: Addressing the role of communities of practice, language, and mental models in organizational change†| 
| Terashima, Mikiko | 2011 | “Geographical epidemiology of health and deprivation: A population-based, spatio-temporal analysis of health and social inequality in Nova Scotia, Canada†| 
| Lingley-Pottie, Patricia | 2011 | "Children and parents' experiences with distance mental health treatment" | 
| Taber, Michael | 2010 | "Human systems integration and situation awareness in microworlds: An examination of emergency response within the offshore command and control training system" | 
| Simpson, Anna Catherine | 2010 | "" | 
| Andrew, Melissa K | 2010 | "" | 
| Barnard, Dorothy | 2010 | "Envisioning pathways to community health through the eyes of north end Haligonians" | 
| Abidi, Samina Raza | 2010 | "" | 
| Mercer Clarke, Colleen | 2010 | "Rethinking responses to coastal problems: An analysis of the opportunities and constraints for Canada" | 
| Pelletier, Nathaniel | 2010 | "" | 
| Hutchinson, Paula | 2010 | "" | 
| Salmon, Nancy | 2009 | "'" | 
| Martin, Debbie | 2009 | "" | 
| Joseph, Alain | 2009 | "Evaluating bioenergy supply using spatial simulations" | 
| Hadjkarim, Kharrazi Hadi | 2009 | "Can video games improve adherence to treatment in children with chronic diseases?" | 
| Curran, Janet | 2009 | "Development of a knowledge exchange and utilization model for emergency practice" | 
| Znajda, Sandra | 2009 | "Housing change without numbers: evaluating social development in agroforestry conservation and development initiatives in Nicaragua" | 
| Zir, Alessandro | 2009 | "The 16th C Corpus of the Portuguese colonizers about Brazil and Christian neo-platoism: An approach in terms of styles of thinking" | 
| Hartnell, Nicole | 2009 | "Identifying, understanding, and overcoming barriers to medication error reporting in hospitals in Nova Scotia" | 
| Finkler, Lilith | 2009 | "Sane-itized space: Understandings of psychiatric impairment/disability at the Ontario Municipal Board" | 
| Van Wilgenburg, Hendricus | 2009 | "Democracy in environment impact assessment: The politics of participation and well-being" | 
| Middleton, Laura | 2008 | "The epidemiology of cognitive change in older age in relation to physical activity" | 
| O'Brien, Heather | 2008 | "Defining and measuring engagement in user experiences with technology" | 
| Durrant, Matthew | 2008 | "A Study of the determinants of body mass index in a population of Nova Scotia youth" | 
| Lipp, Judith | 2008 | "Greening the grid: Policy considerations for renewable electricity in Canada" | 
| Ackroyd-Stolarz, Stacy | 2008 | "Patient safety in an aging population: Challenges & strategies for change" | 
| Flouris, Andreas | 2007 | "The functional architecture of the human thermoregulatory system" | 
| Gilbert, Bruce | 2007 | "" | 
| Luttermann, Annette | 2007 | "" | 
| Arce-Ibarra, Ana Minerva | 2007 | "" | 
| Bruce, Beth | 2007 | &±ç³Ü´Ç³Ù;Ìý | 
| Groves, Kent | 2006 | "" | 
| Angulo-Valdes, Jorge | 2005 | "" | 
| Maddelena, Victor | 2005 | "" | 
| Jahangir, Alireza | 2004 | "†| 
| Penaloza, Eladio | 2004 | "" | 
| Loppie, Charlotte | 2004 | "" | 
| MacInnes, W. Joseph | 2003 | "" | 
| Fanning, Lucia | 2003 | "" | 
| Comeau, Margaret Nancy | 2003 | "" | 
| Muhammad, Yusran | 2002 | Ҡ| 
| Neeru, Shrestha | 2000 | "" | 
| Clovis, Joanne | 2000 | "" | 
| Haak, Christian | 2000 | "" | 
| McGraw, Patricia | 1998 | "" | 
| Beazley, Karen | 1998 | "" | 
| Boyle, Mark | 1997 | "" | 
| Unruh, Anita | 1996 | "" | 
| Si, Zhizhong | 1993 | "†| 
| Juckes, Timothy | 1993 | "" | 
| Manuel, Patricia | 1992 | "" | 
| Rohkmin, Dahuri | 1992 | "†| 
| Ireland, Alicia | 1990 | "" |