It’s 2016, or, as the kids say these days, “2k16″ #yoloswag amirite? But, because it’s 2016 that means we are smack dab in the Information Age, the Cyber Age, the Computer Age if you will. Up until the last 50 years or so we had been subsisting off of both the Industrial Revolution and the […]

Well, here we are again, diving into another academic year. Brains are buzzing, or soon will be, with new research ideas and the big questions of the cosmos. In an age where the internet is at our fingertips, where Google is only a quick voice command to Siri or click away, we are constantly researching. […]

Hello Fellow Scholars! Welcome back to school and to the new 2016/17 academic year! I hope you are all as pumped to learn some new knowledge and expand your horizons as I am. The Post will be continuing this year with the deadline for submissions for the third issue (that’s right, we’re already looking towards […]

The Post: Practice and Encouragement for New Scholars Taylor Price ~ Lakehead University Open access (OA) publishing is a new way of disseminating research by hosting research online so that any interested individual can access and engage with the work at will (Suber 2012: 4). OA publishing is guided by the principle that “a commitment […]

A note to our readership, on the occasion of the publication of The Post [|] Lakehead University’s Peer-Reviewed Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Journal. The whole reason we do this is so that the observations we have made and the conclusions we draw from having made them can be shared. Please let everyone know if a particular […]

How does the peer review process work? The peer review process for The Post is a double-blind process, meaning that neither the students who submit their papers, nor the students who read their papers know who each other are. Students submit papers. These papers are received by the Editor-in-Chief and all of the names, possible […]

Submit! In this article,  I will outline how a Lakehead student goes about submitting the results of their research to be considered for publication in The Post.  As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items. Submissions may be returned to student writers that […]

What is The Post? The Post: Lakehead University’s Undergraduate Research Journal is an interdisciplinary, open access, research journal that is both for and by the students of Lakehead. There are two primary goals of this publication. The first goal of The Post is to give every student an equal opportunity to submit their research/ideas/essays/writing to […]