{"id":107170,"date":"2026-01-23T10:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=107170"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:48:55","slug":"thesis-defences-jan-26-to-jan-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/01\/thesis-defences-jan-26-to-jan-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Jan. 26 to Jan. 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Jan. 26 and Friday, Jan. 30.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science in Chemistry<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hedieh Lotfian<span data-ogsc=\"black\">, <\/span>a Master of Science in Chemistry candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cCatalytic and Non-Catalytic Hydroetherification-type Reactivity of Fluorinated Compounds\u201d on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at noon in PLZ 601C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The examination committee includes Jeff Stuart, Chair; Travis Dudding, Supervisor; Sherry Chemler, External Examiner (University at Buffalo); and Georgii Nikonov and Paul Zelisko, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts in Applied Disabilities Studies thesis\u00a0defence\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Chase Bognar, a Master of Arts in Applied Disabilities Studies candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cBreaking the Walls: Exploring Inclusion Through Video Gaming\u201d on Monday, Jan. 26 from 10 a.m. to noon in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga, Chair; Nicole Luke, Supervisor; Karen Nakamura, External Examiner (University of California Berkeley); Kimberley Zonneveld, Graduate Program Director; and Jason\u00a0Hawreliak and Priscilla Burnham\u00a0Riosa, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts in Child\u00a0and\u00a0Youth Studies thesis\u00a0defence\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jillian Ludwig, a Master of Arts in Child and Youth Studies candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cExploring Young People\u2019s Experiences with Companion Animal Death during Emerging Adulthood Using an\u202fInterpretive Phenomenological Analysis\u201d on Tuesday, Jan. 27 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes\u00a0Rosemary Condillac,\u00a0Chair; Christine Tardif-Williams, Supervisor; Darlene Chalmers, External Examiner (University of Regina); Heather Ramey, Graduate Program Director; and Dan Cui and Sandra\u00a0Bosacki, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics thesis\u00a0defence\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bahar Forouzandeh Sharaki, a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cExploring Narrative Skill Differences in Monolingual and Bilingual Children with Developmental Language Disorder\u201d on Wednesday, Jan. 28 from 10 a.m. to noon in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Karen Campbell, Chair; Lynn Dempsey, Supervisor; Karla Washington, External Examiner (University of Toronto); Michael Karas, Graduate Program Director; and Ron Thomson and Hillary Ganek, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Master of Arts in Critical Sociology thesis\u00a0defence\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ben Sterling, a Master of Arts in Critical Sociology candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cEnding the Carceral Cycle Early: An Abolitionist Approach to Youth Justice In Canada\u201d on Friday, Jan. 30 from 10 a.m. to noon in PLZ 600F.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Danielle McNabb, Chair; Tamari Kitossa, Supervisor; Robyn Maynard, External Examiner (University of Toronto); Trent Newmeyer, Acting Graduate Program Director; and Jonah Butovsky, Committee Member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of \u200bScience in Applied Health Sciences (Kinesiology) thesis defence<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nClaire Buckridan, a Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cThe Effects of Anteriorly Added Weight on Gait Performance During an Obstacle Avoidance Task\u201d on Thursday, Jan. 29 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in WC 204.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Bareket Falk, Chair; Craig Tokuno, Supervisor; Lori Vallis, External Examiner (University of Guelph); and Jae Patteson and Allan Adkin, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, Jan. 26 and Friday, Jan. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,188,55,41,38],"tags":[244,28,72,45,7437,996,14757,7488,348,522,13248,3328,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107170"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107222,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107170\/revisions\/107222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}