A doctoral degree is the ultimate culmination ofÌýhard work and dedication. From countless hours attending seminars and conducting research, to TA'ing courses and preparing a dissertation, our PhD students have shown grit and determination from the outset. For many, these integral parts of the PhD journey have been completed online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the pandemic may have impacted the way research and courses were conducted, it cannot take away from the monumentalÌýaccomplishment of completing a doctoral degree.Ìý
If there is a defining feature of doctoral research across the Faculty of Arts, it is social impact — where the human beingÌýis at the centre of the inquiry. Our 2022 cohort’s dissertationsÌýmakeÌýthis clear: whether it's focused on health and well-being, economies and prosperity, governance and policy, accountability, equity, or cultural expression, their scholarship makes meaningful contributions that can benefit people and societies. TheirÌýwork is aÌýtestament to the knowledge they have contributed and the changeÌýthey will enact. The Faculty of Arts is honoured and proud to have supported them along the way.Ìý
Congratulations to our newest PhDs!
Liz Attisano
Department:
Psychology
Thesis:
Exploring theÌýlearning opportunities in a living history village at the Ken Seiling À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region Museum (WRM) and the contents of parents and children's conversations.
Keely Cronin
Department:
English
Thesis:
Arguing that migrant narratives are used to facilitate a Canadian performance of caring on the popular broadcast television and radio program Canada Reads.
Jessica Roberts
Department:
Psychology
Thesis:
Assessing the possibility that highly self-compassionate individuals may only seek others’ support when their level of distress is relatively high and exceeds their capacity to self-soothe.
Martyn Gabel
Department:
Psychology
Thesis:
ExplainingÌýthat response inhibition will be bolstered by approach motivation (e.g., anger, curiosity) but hindered by avoidance motivated experiences (e.g., anxiety).
Sara Gallagher
Department:
English
Thesis:
AnalyzingÌýa diverse set of stories to show the ways African American authors and producers of Western texts have participated in the revision of the Western genre in a full range of imaginative forms.
Brandon Goulding
Department: Psychology
Thesis:
ExploringÌýtwo strategies that children may useÌýfor inferring the possibility of improbable events: thinking about the causal circumstances that could enable an event, and using a memory-based heuristic that compares potential events to known events.
Min Jeong Hong
Department:
Accounting
Thesis:
Studying the confirmatory role of financial reports by examining how fair value accounting affects two aspects of informational efficiency: the credibility of voluntary disclosures and the timeliness of price discovery.
Dorian Lane
Department:
Accounting
Thesis:
Examining how incentive type, task temporality, and performance feedback influence effort spillover onto a second, unincentivized task.
Chanel Jade Larche
Department:
Psychology
Thesis:
Investigating the relation between flow (a state of deep and effortless concentration)Ìýand the development of problematic gaming withÌýsmartphone games.
Shane Littrell
Department:
Psychology
Thesis:
Presenting research on the associations of bullshitting with frequency to other relative constructs, and the extent to which those who produce bullshit are also receptive to other types of bullshit.Ìý
Allison Mascella
Department:
Economics
Thesis:
Analyzing the time-use of foreign-born parents and their children as measured by their daily time-use records to learn whether their cultural background and their integration into Canadian society affects time-use allocation decisions.
Andrew Moore
Department:
History
Thesis:
ExaminingÌýthe role that environment played in the negotiation of rights and responsibilities on a fundamental socioeconomic institution of rural communities in late medieval England.
Kathryn Ann Morrison
Department:
Philosophy
Thesis:
Exploring the prospect of extending MAiD eligibility to mature minors and arguing that eligibility should be calibrated according to maturity rather than age.
Zehua Pan
Department:
Economics
Thesis:
Arguing that surrounding forest cover has a significant negative effect on water rates and incidence rates in Ontario while also highlighting that surrounding forest cover significantly reduces water treatment costs across Canada.
Karen Pinto
Department:
Accounting
Thesis:
DevelopingÌýthe concept of economic earnings, measuring economic and shifted earnings, testingÌýtheir market valuation, and testing differences in valuation across investor types.
Sam Schirm
Department:
German
&
Slavic
Studies
Thesis:
Investigating how speakers of a second languageÌýdevelop the ability to interact in the second language, andÌýhow they develop their interactional competence.Ìý
Jamie Sewell
Department:
Philosophy
Thesis:
ArguingÌýthat adding tools in epistemologies of ignorance helps address the difficulty in identifying when actions are borne of indifference to others' interests by offering ways of thinking about the underlying dispositions toward the important interests of others.
Madison Stange
Department:
Psychology
Thesis:
AddingÌýto our existing knowledge of scratch card gambling and emphasizing the impact that structural features have on gamblers' experiences.
Qi Tang
Department:
Accounting
Thesis:
InvestigatingÌýanalysts’ demand for KPI-related information in earnings conference calls and whether managers adjust their decisions about voluntary KPI disclosure in subsequent earnings calls.
Christin Taylor
Department:
English
Thesis:
Advocating that translinguism be adapted, rather than adopted, to fit writing studies in Canada.
Kiruthiha Vimalakanthan
Department:
Psychology
Thesis:
InvestigatingÌýthe potential in harnessing the caregiving mentality to buffer the negative consequences of appearance comparisons on women’s body image, and psychological and social well-being.
Cameron Winter
Department:
History
Thesis:
Comparing the battles of the Little Bighorn and Isandlwana and arguing that it was the similarities in American and British perceptions of their Indigenous foes that led to the defeats and difficulties that the campaigns encountered.
John Yoon
Department:
English
Thesis:
ProposingÌýa model for analyzing the narrative formation in sports broadcasts by tracking the live narrativization to the formulation of a final narrative.