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Morley, Minou

Western University 
Scholarship@Western 
Inspiring Minds – Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity 
September 2021 
Reimagining Urban Schoolyards - Land-based Learning 
Minou Morley 
Western University, mmorley9@uwo.ca 
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Citation of this paper: 
Morley, Minou, "Reimagining Urban Schoolyards - Land-based Learning" (2021). Inspiring Minds – 
Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. 164. 
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/inspiringminds/164 
   
 
Reimagining Urban Schoolyards - Land-based Learning  
This could be any inner city schoolyard, surrounded by buildings, fenced and lined with asphalt. The physical human impact is stark, 
but what of the land? In what context was the school built over 100 years ago? What can we learn from the nature that is still 
present? As your gaze moves from left to the right, do see you see the three spruce trees, the interconnection between the play 
structure and the pocket forest in the middle, and the moon in the last photo? From an Indigenous worldview it has long been known 
that the land is a teacher. My research is around pursuing land-based learning in urban school yards through a decolonizing and 
equity lens with the goal of improving student wellness and academic achievement, social and environmental justice, and augmenting 
community voice and involvement in schools. 


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Reimagining Urban Schoolyards - Land-based Learning

Rankaduwa, Sidath

Western University 
Scholarship@Western 
Inspiring Minds – Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity 
September 2021 
Psychedelics, and the Search for Higher Consciousness 
Sidath Rankaduwa 
Western University, srankad@uwo.ca 
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Citation of this paper: 
Rankaduwa, Sidath, "Psychedelics, and the Search for Higher Consciousness" (2021). Inspiring Minds – 
Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. 186. 
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/inspiringminds/186 
UWO Inspiring Minds 2021 Submission  
Sidath Rankaduwa – srankad@uwo.ca 
 
Title: “Psychedelics, and the Search for Higher Consciousness” 
Description:  
Can psychedelics induce a higher state of consciousness? Much of our conscious experience comes from 
what we see -- our visual system takes basic features like shape, texture, and motion, to create the vivid 
objects and scenes that make up our world. Much of what we see, however, is also influenced by our 
prior expectations. For instance, would you believe me if I told you this mask was actually hollow? All of 
the faces we have ever seen were ones that 'stick out'; our brain finds it so unlikely for this face to 
actually be hollow, and so we see it as sticking out. Scientists have argued that psychedelics release us 
from these kinds of expectations -- this means that someone on psychedelics might actually be able to 
tell the difference between a hollow and regular face. Do psychedelics reveal 'true reality'? Could this be 
some form of ‘higher consciousness’?  


Psychedelics, and the Search for Higher Consciousness

Furtado, Rochelle, Ms.

Western University 
Scholarship@Western 
Inspiring Minds – Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity 
September 2021 
Pre-rehab and education program for patients receiving a 
shoulder replacement surgery 
Rochelle Furtado Ms. 
Western University, rfurtad5@uwo.ca 
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Citation of this paper: 
Furtado, Rochelle Ms., "Pre-rehab and education program for patients receiving a shoulder replacement 
surgery" (2021). Inspiring Minds – Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative 
Activity. 187. 
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/inspiringminds/187 
Imagine your 75-year-old grandmother needs shoulder surgery, but her only source of 
information is from the 20-minute appointment with her surgeon? Add in the 
pandemic, and that in-person appointment is now reduced to a 10-minute phone call. 
Thousands of Canadians face shoulder replacement surgeries annually, but recovery can be 
slow due to unrealistic recovery expectations, adherence to rehab and the overall surgery 
experience. To help create more informed patients, I plan to create an online education 
program that prepares patients before surgery. Through online modules, we can increase 
accessibility for home use, and prepare patients on a variety of topics, including complications 
or suggested rehab exercises. This program will allow healthcare providers to proactively 
educate patients before their surgery, while increasing overall recovery rates and lowering their 
pain and anxiety. With this, healthcare providers can enhance the care for patients, like your 
grandmother, with their recovery and surgical experience. 
 


Pre-rehab and education program for patients receiving a shoulder replacement surgery

Campbell, Janis

Western University 
Scholarship@Western 
Inspiring Minds – Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity 
September 2021 
Taking Student Mental Health to the Next Level with Peer Support 
and Stepped Care 2.0 
Janis Campbell 
Western University, JCAMP285@uwo.ca 
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Citation of this paper: 
Campbell, Janis, "Taking Student Mental Health to the Next Level with Peer Support and Stepped Care 
2.0" (2021). Inspiring Minds – Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative 
Activity. 189. 
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/inspiringminds/189 
Taking Student Mental Health to the Next Level with Peer Support and Stepped Care 2.0 
The goal of Stepped Care 2.0 (SC 2.0) is mental health system transformation. It aims to offer 
students quick access to a variety of supports based on their level of readiness and choice. SC 
2.0 is grounded in recovery-oriented practice which promotes hope, autonomy, and 
empowerment of help seekers. Many students report high levels of distress but will never set 
foot in a mental health clinic for reasons including stigma and not believing their problem 
warrants professional service. They are more likely to reach out to their peers making Peer 
Support programs critical resources. The problem of practice to be addressed is the gap in 
training of student Peer Supporters working within the campus community within a SC 2.0 
context. To achieve the system change required by SC 2.0, investment in Peer Support training 
is needed that is inclusive of the model’s core components such as single-session thinking, and 
co-design. 
 
 


Taking Student Mental Health to the Next Level with Peer Support and Stepped Care 2.0

Sallas, Alexander J.

Western University 
Scholarship@Western 
Inspiring Minds – Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity 
September 2021 
Canadian Literary Magazines in Times of Crisis 
Alexander J. Sallas 
Western University, asallas@uwo.ca 
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Citation of this paper: 
Sallas, Alexander J., "Canadian Literary Magazines in Times of Crisis" (2021). Inspiring Minds – 
Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. 193. 
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/inspiringminds/193 
CANADIAN LITERARY MAGAZINES IN TIMES OF CRISIS 
ALEXANDER SALLAS 
WESTERN UNIVERSITY 
 
In 2019, I was hired as an editor at the Literary Review of Canada, our country’s 
national book review magazine. In 2021, the Coronavirus fired me.  
Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic is not the first crisis that Canada has experienced. 
And it certainly won’t be the last.  
My research examines Canadian literary magazines during such times of crisis, 
including World Wars I & II, the Great Depression and, yes, the Coronavirus 
pandemic.  
By diving into the audiences, economics, histories, and themes of publications 
such as The Fiddlehead, Maclean’s, Quill & Quire, Saturday Night, and The Walrus, 
I study how and why some of them survived and others failed. In so doing, I 
articulate how Canadian publications may weather the storms of future moments 
of crisis—pandemics or otherwise. 


Canadian Literary Magazines in Times of Crisis

Afas, Keith C

Western University 
Scholarship@Western 
Inspiring Minds – Showcasing Western’s Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity 
September 2021 
Model-based analysis of microcirculatory parameters affecting 
O2 transport in skeletal muscle subjected to fixed surface PO2 
Keith C. Afas 
Western University, kafas@uwo.ca 
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Citation of this paper: 
Afas, Keith C., "Model-based analysis of microcirculatory parameters affecting O2 transport in skeletal 
muscle subjected to fixed surface PO2" (2021). Inspiring Minds – Showcasing Western’s Graduate 
Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. 224. 
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/inspiringminds/224 
Model-based analysis of microcirculatory parameters
affecting O2 transport in skeletal muscle subjected to fixed
surface PO2
Keith C. Afas 1,3* (Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Goldman1,2,3† )
1 Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C1
2 Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C1
3 School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, ON N6A 5C1
1. Inspiring Minds SUMMARY
Often, diseases individuals experience throughout their body such as diabetes and sepsis
(blood infection) show early signs of problems in your muscle’s smallest blood vessels, termed
capillaries. The medically relevant measurement of these signs, muscle tissue oxygen, is unable to be
visualized using most instruments and microscopes. Therefore, the Goldman lab creates powerful
mathematical equations known as partial differential equations (PDEs) using parameters these devices
can obtain, and visualize tissue oxygen under several disease conditions which could see muscle
using more oxygen than normal, or the number of capillary vessels decreasing. Current work is using
new techniques to expand the area we can visualize, and include your body’s regulation. These PDE
visualizations use a fraction of the time normal computer code does, and may be used beside a patient
in a hospital to tell when the oxygen in their arm or leg muscle is low enough to cause danger.
*Author e-mail:kafas@uwo.ca
†Supervisor e-mail:dgoldma2@uwo.ca


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Reimagining Urban Schoolyards - Land-based Learning

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Pre-rehab and education program for patients receiving a shoulder replacement surgery

Taking Student Mental Health to the Next Level with Peer Support and Stepped Care 2.0

Canadian Literary Magazines in Times of Crisis

Model-based analysis of microcirculatory parameters affecting O2 transport in skeletal muscle subjected to fixed surface PO2

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Advanced engineering simulators for safe operation of nuclear reactors

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