Year: 2025, 2025
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Yang, Yaochong, Thesis advisor (ths): Mitchell, Liam, Thesis advisor (ths): Epp, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Manning, Paul, Degree committee member (dgc): Lamarre, Thomas, Degree committee member (dgc): Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen, Degree committee member (dgc): Synenko, Joshua, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This research examines the digital game through the subject of the Apocalypse, both in its literal revelatory form and its colloquial disaster form. To accomplish that, it employs Louis Althusser's concept of structural causality as a springboard for a structure-based interrogation of interlocked systems. Drawing a comparison between Ian Bogost's definition of black-box… more
Year: 2025, 2025
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Slater-Meadows, Angela, Thesis advisor (ths): Buccieri, Kristy, Degree committee member (dgc): Rapaport, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Chivers, Sally, Degree committee member (dgc): Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Many middle-class families, according to Whiteman (2023) find it challenging to manage unless both parents contribute financially through employment. I chose to become a professional because I'd wanted better employment options. My academic research interests soon had me wondering what working-while-parenting experiences were like for other professionals. The overarching topic of my… more
Year: 2025, 2025
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Iftikhar, Simal, Thesis advisor (ths): Handlarski, Denise, Thesis advisor (ths): Iannacci, Luigi, Degree committee member (dgc): Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen, Degree committee member (dgc): Berrill, Deborah, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This study examines the lived experiences of refugee students in the Canadian education system and how the barriers they face have influenced their learning and identity. This qualitative study employs critical discourse analysis to bring visibility to the educational experiences of five participants who completed high school in Canada and explores their experiences with resettlement and… more
Year: 2025, 2025
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Trefzger Clarke, Lisa Joyce Helena, Thesis advisor (ths): Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen, Degree committee member (dgc): Boucher, Lisa, Degree committee member (dgc): Handlarski, Denise, Degree committee member (dgc): Cole, Jenn, Degree committee member (dgc): Arraiz Matute, Alexandra, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This study examines the formal, informal, and non-formal learning experiences offeminist-identified counsellors and psychotherapists working within the Violence
Against Women (VAW) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) sector of community-
based social services in Ontario, Canada. Using critical, feminist polyethnography and
intersectional and feminist theories, this study discusses the… more