{"id":69538,"date":"2020-12-04T09:09:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=69538"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:30:33","slug":"thesis-defences-dec-7-to-dec-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/12\/thesis-defences-dec-7-to-dec-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 Dec. 7 to Dec. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place virtually from Monday, Dec. 7 to Friday, Dec. 11.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applied Disability Studies Master of Arts thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paige O&#8217;Neill, a Master of Arts in Applied Disability Studies candidate, will defend her thesis\u00a0&#8220;Parent Training in Multicomponent Behavioural Interventions to Reduce Challenging Behaviours in Children with ASD: A Systematic Review&#8221;\u00a0on Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Dawn Zinga, Chair; Julie Koudys, Supervisor; Dorothea Lerman, External Examiner (Professor of Psychology and Director, Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, University of Houston Clear Lake); Rosemary Condillac, Graduate Program Director; and Kendra Thomson and Maurice Feldman, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Critical Sociology Master of Arts thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moe Constantine, a Master of Arts in Critical Sociology candidate, will defend his thesis\u00a0&#8220;Environmental Justice Activism in Context: A Case Study of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment in Kern County, California&#8221;\u00a0on Friday, Dec. 11 at 1 p.m. via video conference.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Dawn Zinga, Chair; Nancy Cook, Supervisor; Sarah Wiebe, External Examiner (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai&#8217;i); Jane Helleiner, Graduate Program Director; and Lauren Corman and Ebru Ustundag, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Psychology PhD thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christine Salahub, a PhD candidate in Psychology, will defend her thesis titled \u201cElectrophysiological measures of flexible attentional control and visual working memory maintenance\u201d on Friday, Dec. 11 from 9 a.m. to noon via video conference.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Stephen Emrich, Supervisor; Karen Arnell and Karen Campbell, Advisory Committee; Martin Eimer, External Examiner (Birkbeck College, London, U.K.); Ayda Tekok-Kilic, Internal Examiner; and Brian Roy, Chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place virtually from Monday, Dec. 7 to Friday, Dec. 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,188,55,38],"tags":[244,274,29,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69538"}],"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=69538"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69664,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69538\/revisions\/69664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}