The following is a list of these defences taking place virtually from Monday, Aug. 31 to Friday, Sept. 4.<\/p>\n
PhD in Educational Studies thesis defence <\/strong><\/p>\n Edwin Laryea, a PhD candidate in Educational Studies, will defend his thesis titled \u201cExploring the factors that African refugee-background students identify as being helpful to their academic success\u201d on Friday, Sept. 4, at 10 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Brian Roy, Chair; Denise Armstrong, Supervisor; Jean Ntakirutimana, Internal Examiner; Awad Ibrahim, External Examiner (University of Ottawa); and Leanne Taylor and Andrew Allen, Committee Members.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Masters of Applied Disability Studies thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Emily Mete, a Master of Arts candidate in Applied Disability Studies, will defend her thesis titled\u00a0“Understanding the barriers and supports of inclusive employment for adults with intellectual\/developmental disabilities”\u00a0on Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 9 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga, Chair;\u00a0Maureen Connolly, Supervisor; Colleen Whyte, External Examiner\u00a0(Brock University);\u00a0Rosemary Condillac,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; and Fran Owen and Jennifer Li, Committee Members.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Masters of Applied Disability Studies thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Carly Magnacca, a Master of Arts candidate in Applied Disability Studies, will defend her thesis titled\u00a0“Evaluating behavioural skills training via telecommunication to teach mediators to facilitate acceptance and commitment training”\u00a0on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 9 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga,\u00a0Chair;\u00a0Kendra Thomson, Supervisor; Michael Levin, External Examiner\u00a0(Utah State University);\u00a0Rosemary Condillac,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; Tricia Vause and Yona Lunsky, Committee Members.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Masters of Applied Disability Studies thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Amanda Marcinkiewicz, a Master of Arts candidate in Applied Disability Studies, will defend her thesis titled\u00a0“Evaluating committed actions during acceptance and commitment training for caregivers of people with neurodevelopmental disabilities”\u00a0on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 1 p.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes\u00a0Dawn Zinga,\u00a0Chair;\u00a0Kendra Thomson, Supervisor; Kate Kellum, External Examiner\u00a0(University of Mississippi);\u00a0Rosemary Condillac,\u00a0Graduate Program Director; and Tricia Vause, and Yona Lunsky, Committee Members.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n PhD in Education defence<\/strong><\/p>\n Education student Edwin Laryea will defend the dissertation \u201cExploring the factors that African refugee-background students identify as being helpful to their academic cuccess\u201d on Friday, Sept. 4.<\/p>\n The examination committee includes Brian Roy, Chair; Awad Ibrahim, External Examiner (University of Ottawa); Jean Ntakirutimana, Internal Examiner; Denise Armstrong, Supervisor; Leanne Taylor, Committee Member; and Andrew Allen, Committee Member (University of Windsor).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following is a list of these defences taking place virtually from Monday, Aug. 31 to Friday, Sept. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[7437,7488,607,348,3899,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67722"}],"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=67722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67723,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67722\/revisions\/67723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}