{"id":87072,"date":"2023-07-28T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=87072"},"modified":"2023-07-28T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T18:11:50","slug":"thesis-defences-july-31-to-aug-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/07\/thesis-defences-july-31-to-aug-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences \u2014 July 31 to Aug. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, July 31 and Friday, Aug. 4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science in Mathematics thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fatemeh (Nazanin) Hasheminejad, a Master of Science in Mathematics and Statistics candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cConvergence Analysis of Heterogeneous Decision-making Populations Under the Coordinating Best-response and Imitation Update Rules&#8221; on Monday, July 31 at 11 a.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Pouria Ramazi, Supervisor; Junling Ma, External Examiner (University of Victoria); and Henryk Fuks and Stephen Anco, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD in Psychology thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ashley Dawn Ryan, a PhD in Psychology candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cMechanisms of episodic simulation of helping behaviour in younger and older adults\u201d on Tuesday, Aug. 1 from 1 to 4 p.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee members are Brian Roy, Chair; Karen Campbell, Supervisor; Karl Szpunar, External Examiner (Toronto Metropolitan University); Danielle Molnar, Internal Examiner; and Stephen Emrich and Caitlin Mahy, Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'CircularXX',sans-serif; color: black;\">Master of Arts \u200bin Psychology thesis defence<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'CircularXX',sans-serif; color: #212121;\">Estera Houshang Tehrani,<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'CircularXX',sans-serif; color: black;\">a\u00a0Master of\u00a0\u200bArts in Psychology\u00a0candidate, will defend the thesis \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'CircularXX',sans-serif; color: #212121;\">Experiences With Social Identity Threat: Investigating Threat\u2019s Impact on the Self<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'CircularXX',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u201d\u00a0on Tuesday, Aug. 1 from 1 to 3 p.m. in WH 147.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"caret-color: #000000; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'CircularXX',sans-serif; color: black;\">The examination committee includes Heather Ramey, Chair; William Hall, Supervisor;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'CircularXX',sans-serif; color: #212121;\">Renate Ysseldyk<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'CircularXX',sans-serif; color: black;\">,\u00a0External Examiner\u00a0(Carleton University); Michael Busseri, Graduate Program Director; and\u00a0Gordon Hodson and Michael Ashton, Committee Members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of \u200b Arts in Applied Health Sciences\u00a0(Sport Management) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"x_xcontentpasted3\">Jesse Porter,<\/span>\u00a0a <span class=\"x_xcontentpasted11\">Master of<\/span><span class=\"x_xapple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"x_xcontentpasted11\">\u200bArts in Applied Health Sciences <\/span>candidate, will defend the thesis &#8220;Because we Care&#8230;. it\u2019s so Easy to Exploit Us&#8221;:\u00a0 Exploring Emotional Labour of Women Head Coaches on Friday, Aug. 4 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in STH 361 (hybrid).<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xcontentpasted1\">The examination committee includes Michael Van Bussel, Chair; Kirsty Spence, Supervisor; Vicki Schull, External Examiner (University of Minnesota); and Shannon Kerwin and Larena Hoeber, Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xcontentpasted1\">\u00a0<strong>Master of \u200b Science in Applied Health Sciences\u00a0(Kinesiology) thesis defence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xcontentpasted1\">Melanie Burgess, a Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cTreating Yourself in a Fairway: Examining the Contribution of Self-Compassion and Well-Being on Performance in a Putting Task\u201d on Friday, Aug. 4 from noon to 3 p.m. in WC 204.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_xcontentpasted1\">The examination committee includes, Sean Locke, Chair; Diane Mack, Supervisor; Matt Kwan, External Examiner (Brock University); and Philip Wilson and Leah Ferguson, Committee Members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Monday, July 31 and Friday, Aug. 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,41,38],"tags":[7488,607,348,522,3335,15,7416,29,57,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87072"}],"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=87072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87083,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87072\/revisions\/87083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}