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MPhil/PhD theses

You can access print and digital copies of MPhil/PhD theses written by research students at Birkbeck and at other universities in the UK and further afield.   

Birkbeck print theses 

• Pre-1995 theses : check the national Index to Theses  for details. 
• Post-1995 theses : search the Birkbeck Library catalogue  for details. 
• Requests are usually fulfilled within 3 hours during library opening times .
• I f you want to search for only theses in the Library catalogue, on the advanced search page put the word 'theses' into a shelfmark search and then add any other search terms you want.
• Birkbeck Library does not hold some theses in classics, German, history, and law. You may be able to find these in the  British Library's Electronic Theses Online System (EThOS)  or in the libraries of relevant institutes within the University of London's School of Advanced Study . 

Birkbeck Digital theses (2012-present) 

• You can search for and view digital copies of theses submitted after 2012 in the Birkbeck Institutional Repository Online (BIROn) . 
• If you want to upload a thesis to BIROn, you can find  FAQs on the BIROn site . 

Accessing MPhil/PhD theses at other universities 

• For digital, downloadable copies of MPhil/PhD theses awarded by other UK universities, search the British Library's Electronic Theses Online System (EThOS) .  
• For hard copies of MPhil/PhD awarded by overseas universities, you can submit an interlibrary loan .
• Access theses in Australia - Trove  
• Access theses in Europe - DART- Europe  
• Access theses in France - theses.fr 
• Access theses in South Africa - TD Portal  
• Access (Catalan) theses in Spain - Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa  
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)  

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ABI/Inform Global (Proquest)

ABI/INFORM is a database covering business, management, economics and a wide range of related fields. It provides abstracts of material from 1971 onwards and over 2,000 titles in full text, from 1987 onwards.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)

You can login to this database using either your student portal password or your Online Library Athens account.

Updated daily, Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database with full text coverage of almost 4,700 scholarly publications, including full text coverage of over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals dating as far back as 1975. 

The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) provides access to the most comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials that are freely available online.

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Business Source Premier (EBSCO)

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Full text coverage of nearly 7,600 business publications, including full text coverage of over 1,100 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals. Coverage back to 1922 in some cases.

Cambridge Core

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Cambridge University Press publishes a prestigious list of scholarly journals, ranging across the humanities, social sciences and STM disciplines, made available electronically through Cambridge Core. Our subscription also includes a small but growing collection of e-books in Cambridge Core.

Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) provides free access to core legal information from Commonwealth and Common Law jurisdictions.

Dissertations (ProQuest: Global‎)

As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations.

If there is no PDF option for a dissertation, this means that the full-text of that dissertation is not available.

Dissertations (ProQuest: UK and Ireland‎)

This database is the most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the United Kingdom and Ireland, with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716. There are no full-text dissertations in this database.

E-book Central (ProQuest)

E-book Central contains a growing collection of electronic textbooks. To suggest a book, please contact the Online Library Enquiry Service .

EJS E-Journals (EBSCO)

This database provides access to abstracts and full text journal articles where indicated. Our subscription includes, but is not limited to, these journals:

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Financial Times

The Financial Times is a London-based newspaper and one of the world's most renowned publications with a focus on global business, finance and economic news. As well as providing access to the newspaper, FT.com includes addtional content and a number of personalised features such as subject-focused newsletters, news alerts and more.

Gale Reference Complete

HeinOnline contains major full text collections with an American focus including: the Law Journal Library, covering over 2600 titles (including older issues of journals), the English Reports, the Legal Classics Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, the Foreign & International Law Resources Database, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library.

Henry Stewart Talks provides access to videos of world class lectures and case studies given by leading experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia, including Nobel Laureates.

IngentaConnect

IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 4 million articles from 11,000 publications.

International Newsstream (Proquest)

A digital archive collection of core scholarly journals. It is unique in that complete archives of these journals have been digitised, starting with the very first issues, many of which were published as far back as the nineteenth century. The Online Library's subscription covers the Arts and Science Collections 1-15.

Justis Parliament

Justis Parliament is an index to the proceedings and publications of the Houses of Parliament, and the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies, dating back to 1979.

Please note that this database will be retired on the 31st December 2022

JustisOne has been upgraded to vLex Justis. You can log into vLex Justis here .

KluwerArbitration

Full text database of primary and secondary materials relating to commercial arbitration, including conventions, legislation, case law and journal articles.

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This database includes full-text case-law and legislation for the UK, US (Federal and State), EU and other jurisdictions. It also provides access to a large number of full-text legal journals, and local and national UK newspapers. Includes Halsburys Laws of England.

This database was formerly known as LexisLibrary.

Oxford Academic

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Through the Oxford Academic platform, the Online Library provides access to over two hundred journals published by Oxford University Press. This is a multi-disciplinary database, with journals covering a wide range of topics in the humanities, sciences and law. Please note that our subscriptions do not cover all titles in this database.

Oxford Handbooks Online

Brings together the world's leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate.

Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law

Contains full-text online editions of market-leading reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press, such as Oppenheim, and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law.

Project MUSE

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Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content. It currently includes 468,570 articles and 1,177,319 chapters by 265 publishers, on a wide variety of topics including education, history, literature, medicine, philosophy, economics, politics and technology.

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PubMed Central (PMC)

The PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

SAGE Journals Online

SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. We subscribe to three collections in SAGE: the Education Collection, the Management and Organisation Studies Collection, and the Politics and International Relations Collection.

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Full text access to over 3,800 peer reviewed journals in a wide range of subject areas, including education, health, psychology, business & management, economics and earth sciences. Full text access is limited to those titles we have selected and paid for.

Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database from Elsevier, with over 91 million records. 

"Quickly find relevant and authoritative research, identify experts and gain access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tools." 

Taylor and Francis

The Onlne Library's subscription covers two collections of journals: the Science and Technology Collection, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Collection.  

The Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985

The complete digital edition of The Times (London) 1785 - 1985.

U.K. Parliamentary Papers (ProQuest)

The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers is now available from ProQuest's U.K. Parliamentary Papers database.

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UCL dissertations and theses

The Library holds a copy of most research degree theses completed by students registered at UCL. Print copies of research theses are catalogued by author in  Explore ; electronic versions are in many cases available on open access in  UCL Discovery .

The Library does not normally have copies of UCL:

• MA, MSc, MRes, LLM theses
• Diploma theses
• Undergraduate dissertations

However the following libraries have small local theses collections covering their own subject areas, please contact the relevant library directly for more information:

• Bartlett Library : select exemplars of Masters dissertations are available through UCL's Open Educational Repository .
• Ophthalmology Library  has a very small collection of PhD, MD and MSc dissertations.
• Institute of Orthopaedics Library  has BSc and MSc theses.
• School of Pharmacy Library  has a small collection of MRes theses which date from 2011 – 2014  for reference use in the library. 
• UCL Institute of Education Library  has selected masters dissertations, which are findable in  Explore . Those published after 2000 are openly accessible in the library. All others must be requested in advance. 
• Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library has examples of past MSc and MRes dissertations.
• The UCL Institute of Archaeology make some available on the dissertation module page in their Moodle.

Some departments may also maintain their own collections. For further details, please contact your departmental administrators. 

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The Library has a full set of Imperial PhD theses.

The majority of Imperial PhD theses are available on open access, while some are restricted to 'Imperial users only', in  Spiral .

We also provide access, to Imperial students and staff, to some Imperial Master's dissertations and online theses from other universities in the UK and worldwide.

Access to theses

Imperial phd theses.

• Check if an electronic copy of the thesis is available in the Spiral repository . If the thesis has been digitised you can access and download it.

Imperial College London PhD theses

Information for imperial students and staff.

• If the thesis has not been digitised, you can visit the Abdus Salam Library to consult it - complete a  Thesis request form prior to your visit.
• You can also place a Document Delivery request for an electronic copy of the thesis using “ORDER A BOOK OR ARTICLE” tab in  Library Search . The time scale for digitisation is 4 weeks.

Information for external users and alumni

• Most of the electronic copies of Imperial PhD theses are available on open access in the Spiral repository . Some theses are closed access, for copyright reasons, and are unavailable to external users.
• You can visit the Abdus Salam Library to consult any print theses, including theses unavailable in Spiral - complete a  Thesis request form and, if you do not have a current membership card, complete the online library membership application form prior to your visit.
• If you are unable to visit the library or wish to receive an electronic copy of a thesis, please contact the Document Delivery Service by email at [email protected] . Full details will be given upon application.

Imperial Master's dissertations

Library Services provides access to the Master's dissertations of some departments - check the table below for details. If your department is not listed there are no Master's dissertations available. 

Please contact Your librarian if you would like to deposit your department's Master's dissertations in Spiral.

Master's dissertations

Theses from other universities.

UK theses are available online via the British Library EThOS service . To obtain a copy of a thesis:

• first register for the service
• if a thesis has already been digitised it will be available for immediate download
• if a thesis has not been digitised and there is no charge , place your order to digitise it. You will receive a notification from EThOS by email when the thesis is ready to download.
• if a thesis has not been digitised and there is a charge , make a request through the Document Delivery Service via Library Search . You will either receive a copy on loan or, if this is not possible, the Library will order a digital copy and notify you when it is available for download - this will take 4-5 weeks.

Overseas theses

Most overseas theses are now available online via Library Search . If the thesis you are interested in is not available request it using Document Delivery.

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Your thesis and City Research Online

What are the benefits of adding my thesis to city research online, which version of my thesis should i submit, redacting copyrighted and sensitive material, how to request embargoes and redactions, requirements for ukri funded theses, your digital repository librarian.

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Congratulations on the successful completion of your PhD.

When you have uploaded the final PDF copy of your thesis to the Research Manager system, it will then be downloaded by the Copyright and Digitisation Team in Library Services. If your thesis has redactions you should indicate this in the embargo application form, and also upload an unredacted copy to Research Manager. The thesis will undergo some checks and then be made publicly available in our open access repository, City Research Online , and in EThOS , the British Library's thesis discovery service. We will also retain the unredacted digital copy of your thesis (if there is one), as part of our record of research at City.

City, University of London normally expects that all successful PhD theses will be made available in City Research Online - this is included in City's Open Access policy , and also in Senate Regulation 25: Submission Format and Retention of Theses .

• Theses Deposit Agreement (PDF, 218 KB) A signed copy of this agreement is required for your thesis to be deposited in City Research Online.
• To allow anyone to access it. Theses made openly accessible in City Research Online and EThOS can be accessed by anyone with an internet connection. This means theses are accessed, read, and built upon by people outside of traditional UK higher education circles, as well as more widely disseminated to those within UK HE;
• To increase its visibility. Theses placed in repositories such as City Research Online have high rankings in search engines such as Google, Bing and Google Scholar, meaning your work is found more often and more easily;
• To increase its citation count. Studies have shown that research made openly accessible is read, and hence cited more, than research that remains closed;
• To showcase research produced by PhD students at City, University of London. The repository forms a valuable archive of the doctoral research undertaken at City;
• To preserve it for the future. City Research Online uses technology which ensures the long term preservation of City's research outputs, for access and use by future generations.

Diagram illustrating the benefits of open access. CC BY Danny Kingsley and Sarah Brown.

We require you to submit the version of the thesis as finally examined, i.e. the final version of the thesis including any corrections that have been applied to it post-viva.

The exception is where the thesis contains any copyrighted material, sensitive material or clinical findings. If you need to redact such material, please submit a PDF copy for the original version, and a PDF copy for the redacted version that will be made available in City Research Online.

The University takes good stewardship of its research seriously, particularly when that research contains information that might be inappropriate for open release on the web. Many theses submitted for examination contain such material - it can include:

• Theses containing third party copyright material, i.e. material with copyrighted content that resides with someone other than the author. Examples can include: musical scores, reproductions of large amounts of copyrighted text, and graphical images including photographs and figures;
• Commercially sensitive material, for example information or data arising from an industrially-sponsored studentship;
• Sensitive personal data, for example clinical findings. These need not even be personally identifiable if the context gives an indication of their possible identity.

Candidates are expected to apply any necessary redactions to their thesis before submitting to Library Services. Guidance is available from the Copyright Library Guide , particularly the page on making theses available on City Research Online , and by contacting the Copyright and digitisation team at [email protected] . In rare cases authors might choose to apply for an embargo or waiver for their thesis due to the quantity of redactions needed.

If redactions and/or an embargo are necessary, these should be applied for on Research Manager. A number of different types of embargo are available:

• Redaction : Areas of text should be redacted (blacked out) if they should never be seen by someone viewing or downloading your thesis from City Research Online. This might be the case if there were copyright issues, or personal data that must be kept confidential. The redacted version should be uploaded to Research Manager when requesting the embargo.
• Publication : An embargo of three years can be requested if publications based on the thesis are planned, such as a book, monograph, article or book chapter.
• Commercial sensitivity/patent application : If the thesis has been written as the result of commercial sponsorship, and contains sensitive information that should not be released until an agreed date, an embargo can be requested for that period of time. You should discuss this with your supervisor and the Research and Enterprise Department .
• Ten-year embargo : under exceptional and rare circumstances, such as particularly sensitive commercial or personal information contained in the thesis, a ten-year embargo is available. After ten years the author will be contacted, by Library Services, to ascertain whether an embargo is still necessary. If the author is not contactable, the thesis will remain embargoed.

If you are unsure what kind of embargo to apply for, you should discuss with your supervisor. The Copyright and Digitisation Team may also be able to offer guidance.

If an embargo is granted, metadata about the thesis will normally be publicly available in City Research Online, but the thesis won’t be viewable or downloadable from either CRO or EThOS for the duration of the embargo period.

Embargoes are subject to the approval of your supervisor, Department Research Programme Committee, and the Director of Library Services.

If an embargo request is declined, you will be informed. The request will be returned to the Research Programme Committee on Research Manager. You have the right to refer the request to the Chair of the Doctoral College Board of Studies, as stated in Senate Regulation 25: Submission Format and Retention of Theses (section 1i).

If you have any questions relating to embargos, please contact the Copyright and Digitisation Team .

PhD students funded by  UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) research councils must make their research publications available in line with the UKRI open access policy .

Any PhD thesis arising from UKRI training grant funding must meet the terms and conditions outlined in the UKRI Training Grant Terms and Conditions Guidance . Key points are:

• Metadata describing the thesis should be made available in City Research Online (CRO) as soon as possible after award
• The full text version of the thesis should be free to view and download in CRO within a maximum of 12 months following the award. A longer embargo is not normally permitted in this case
• The name of the sponsor and of the funding council should be included in your thesis and in CRO.

If you are seeking a longer embargo period for your work please contact the Copyright and Digitisation Team for further advice.

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PhD theses: Home

You can search for records of LBS theses via LBS Research Online, our library catalogue and EThOS. NB: LBS doctoral theses are subject to a ten year embargo .

LBS Research Online

LBS Research Online is the London Business School institutional repository. As well as theses, it contains research produced by our faculty.

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In the advanced search mode, select type = thesis from the first drop-down box. For print copies of theses, you will need to request access by email.

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EThOS is the UK's online national thesis service, run by the British Library. It contains approximately 500,000 records.

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Need help? Please email [email protected]

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Finding SOAS PhD Theses in the Library Catalogue

All SOAS PhD theses can be found through the  Library catalogue and this will tell you if there is a digital copy which can be viewed online.

• Search by author or title if you know the details of the particular thesis you would like to see
• To browse our PhD thesis collection enter ‘Thesis’ in the search box and select ‘Classmark’ in the drop-down menu
• To limit your search of theses to a particular subject then click on ‘Advanced’ select ‘Add Search Field’ and enter keywords into the new search box
• If a digital copy of the PhD thesis is available for you to view online there will either be a note in the catalogue record or a separate entry for the digital copy

Using Printed Copies of SOAS PhD Theses

• SOAS keeps printed copies of all PhD Theses and they can be consulted in our Special Collections Reading Room on Level F
• All printed PhD theses need to be ordered before you visit the Reading Room. Once you have found the PhD thesis you need you can fill in an online order form through the ‘Order archive material’ link from the catalogue record of the PhD thesis. Alternatively you can fill in an order form available from the Library Enquiry Desk or Special Collections Reading Room
• Before you consult any SOAS PhD thesis in the Special Collections Reading Room you will be asked to fill in a Data Protection Declaration
• You are permitted to photograph a maximum of 5% of a PhD thesis or one complete chapter (whichever is the greatest) for personal research purposes only
• Please note that some of our printed PhD theses are currently unavailable to consult in Special Collections because they are being digitized. If this is a case you will find a note on the Library Catalogue record for the PhD thesis
• If the printed thesis you need is affected please write to [email protected] for further assistance

Using Digital Copies of SOAS PhD Theses

• A significant number of SOAS PhD theses have been made available freely online (with permission from the author) through SOAS Research Online since 2011
• You can browse the latest PhD theses via SOAS Research Online or you can search by author or title if you know the details of the thesis you need
• Some PhD theses in SOAS Research Online are restricted for a period of time at the request of the author. They will only become available digitally once this restriction period has expired
• A number of our PhD theses (dated before 2011) are available via the British Library EThOS service. You can search the EThOS database to check if a PhD thesis is available
• SOAS will be making a significant proportion of our PhD thesis collection available online in 2018 due to our work with Proquest who are digitizing our backrun of PhD Theses. If you cannot find a digital copy through the SOAS Library catalogue then please check ProQuest’s Dissertations and Theses database

Finding PhD theses from Other Institutions

To find PhD theses produced at other institutions we recommend you use the following resources

• British Library EThOS Service
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection
• EBSCO Open Dissertations
• DART - Europe E-Theses Portal
• Shodhganga - Indian Theses
• Theses Canada Portal
• SOAS Interlibrary Loan Service
• Other Library Catalogues

SOAS PhD Digitization Project

SOAS is currently working with  Proquest to digitize our entire collection of PhD theses. The results of this project will mean that theses will be made available to anyone to read, without charge, via SOAS Research Online . In addition, a copy will be added to ProQuest’s Dissertations and Theses online database, a very well established database used by students and researchers internationally.

Please note that this may affect access to the printed library copy of some theses in 2018, if this is the case there will be a note in the catalogue records of the individual thesis. Once a PhD thesis is added to SOAS Research Online you will be able to find a link to the digital copy via the SOAS Library Catalogue.

We have written to our SOAS PhD graduates by letter and email to ask authors to opt-out of the project if they do not want their thesis to be digitized. If you are an author of a SOAS PhD thesis and did not receive this communication and do not want your thesis to be included in the project please let us know by writing to [email protected] Please note any thesis submitted from 2011 onwards is not included in this project as authors have already selected whether they wish to have their thesis digitized and these existing agreements will stand.

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The University of London Archives are records created by the University’s central administration, which are catalogued online.

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Before 1900, the role of the University was limited to examining and awarding degrees, but after this date it expanded its responsibilities to include teaching and research and became a federal university. The archive holds materials on the discussions prior to the 1900 change and much material on the building of Senate House itself. A full set of minutes of the Senate, from 1837, and minutes of the Court, Academic Council, Boards of Studies and other committee papers are also held.

Records not already in the public domain are usually open for research, subject to the Freedom of Information Act and the Data Protection Act. Hard copies of the University archive catalogues are available at Senate House Library .

The Archive does not hold students’ personal files or examination pass lists (these are kept by the individual member institutions or with the External and Internal Student Administration Division of the University).

There are also archives on University of London military service in Senate House Library .

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Online Research Collections

Online Research Collections (ORC) encompasses the digital research outputs of academics and researchers hosted at Goldsmiths.

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Goldsmiths research online (gro).

Goldsmiths Research Online (GRO) is a repository of research publications and other research outputs conducted by academics, research fellows and PhD researchers at Goldsmiths. The repository also holds Goldsmiths' collection of doctoral theses, updated by staff at the Library.

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Goldsmiths staff members and PhD students are able to login to add details of their research. If you are not Goldsmiths staff or a current PhD student, you will still be able to see all records and full-text entries which have been made available to the general public.

See guidelines for depositing on GRO .

Some of the materials that make up the repository include:

• Bibliographic information about Goldsmiths research outputs (metadata).
• Full text research articles, sample book chapters, working papers and monographs.
• Images of visual art works, documentation of time-based and complex multi-media research outputs.
• PhD theses.

The repository is intended to provide long-term, public, free access to these materials on the web.

Please note that not all items are available as full-text. If you find a citation of something which is not available to view, we suggest that you ask at your own university or local library about other means to access the article or book.

Open Access

Goldsmiths Research Online is managed by the Goldsmiths Library, in collaboration with the Research Office, ULCC and IT Services. Built on open access principles using open source technical standards, it functions alongside traditional publishing, copyright and IP arrangements.

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Goldsmiths Journals Online (GOJO)

Goldsmiths Journals Online (GOJO) hosts Open Access journals and conference proceedings for research groups and academic communities at Goldsmiths.

Each journal listed runs on the Open Access software Open Journals System (OJS).

Go to Goldsmiths Journals Online (GOJO)

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For general enquiries or if you are a Goldsmiths academic interested in hosting an Open Access journal, please contact Online Research Collections using the email address below.

If you are looking for the e-journals resources managed by the Goldsmiths Library see our E-Resources list .

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Recent PhD Theses

GDSJ (Geopolitics, Development, Security and Justice Research Group)

• Stephen Bekoe : To what extent has the Community Information Centres programme overcome the constraints of spatial and social marginality in Ghana?
• Deidre Jafferally : Indigenous identity and conservation in Guyana
• Tony Roberts : Participatory video, development and social justice
• Man Xu : Disparities derived from the 'Great Leap Forward'
• Andrea Burris :  Neoliberal Discourses of Creativity and the Dvision of Labour between “East” and “West” in ICT production
• Mary Cobbett : Empowering Girls to Claim Rights? Non-Formal Education and the ‘Stop the Violence’ Campaign in Kenya’
• Duncan Depledge : Critical geopolitics and the Arctic
• Elizabeth Haines : Losing Touch with the Ground: Verticality, Aerial Surveying and the (post)Colonial Representation of Africa, 1912–1957
• Yuko Misu  : Promoting self-help development in Africa: The principles and practices of Japanese development agencies
• Sammia Poveda : Application of the Human Capability Approach on ICT Public Policies in Latin America.
• Shaun Smith : "Slums" and Security: Infrastructure Upgrades, Social Relations and Tenure Security in Two African Cities in Kenya and Tanzania.
• Ugo Vallauri : ICT4D and grassroots rural community development
• Dan Webb : Critical geopolitics, Christianity and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Lise Andreassen : 'Domesticating low and zero carbon energy technology in new homes: pivotal events, determining configurations and influential feedback.' (2015)
• Neelopal Adri : '"Climate-Induced" Rural-Urban Migration in Bangladesh: Experience of Migrants in Dhaka City' (2015)
• Mbianyor Bakia : 'Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in East Cameroon' (2015)
• Paolo Brunello : 'Broken Promises Towards an Intercultural Understanding of Bilateral Cooperation in ICTs for Education in Burundi' (2015)
• David Chapman : Accessing the role of renewable energy toward sustainable development in small Island States - A case study of the island of Bermuda (2014)
• Wouter Geerts : 'Business travel, hotels, and environmental sustainability: An exploration of business travellers' environment-related practices at the travel destination' . (2014)
• Lisa Ingwall King : ' The implication of spatial and temporal scale on the supply, distribution and value of  ecosystem services in Guyana '. (2014)
• Philip Kirby : Calibrating terror: a geopolitical biography of the Homeland Security Advisory System (2014)
• Fiona Nash : 'Measuring Fairness? The political ecology of compulsory water metering in South East England' (2014)
• S alma Abbasi : Women and ICTs in Muslim Countries: Policies, Practices and Challenges (2012)
• Andrew Brooks : Riches from Rags or Persistent Poverty? Inequality and the Transnational Second Hand-Clothing Trade in Mozambique (2012)
• Alison Hess : From Hidden Technology to Exhibition Showpiece: The journey of 2LO, the BBC’s First Radio Transmitter, 1922-2011 (2012)
• Hayley Leck : Rising to the AdaptationChallenge? Responding to Global Environmental Change in e Thekwini and Ugu Municipalities, South Africa (2012)
• David Hollow : Evaluating ICT for education in Africa (2011)
• Charles Howie : Co-operation and Contestation:  farmer-state relations in agricultural transformation, An Giang province, Vietnam   (2011)
• Imsook Jo : The Empowerment of Women in the Kanagawa Seikatsu Club Movement (2011)
• Sorayya Khan : Malaria Management in the dencetralized health system of Mali: A case study of three rural communities in Mopti Region (2011)
• Jenny Lunn : Faith in Action, Religious Organisations and Social Development in Kolkata, India (2011)
• Uduak Okon : ‘ICTs and Sustainable Community Development in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria’ (2011)
• Chih Yuan Woon : The Second Front?   The Geopolitics of the War on Terror with Reference to South East Asia (2011)
• Rong Zheng : Water Consumption in China:   Cases of Beijing and Chongqing (2011)
• Marije Geldof : ICT and Literacy in Developing Countries (2010)
• Nhung Thi Hong Nguyen : Coastal Zone Management in Vietnam (2010)
• Ruth Payne : Child Headed Households in Zambia: Coping on their own? (2009)
• Stephen Bell : Empowering youth: NGO intervention and youth participation in rural Uganda (2008)
• Matthew Benwell : Children's use of space, Cape Town (2008)
• Rebecca Edwards : An Urban Renaissance (2008).

SCHG (Social, Cultural & Historical Geography)

• Bergit Arends : 'Contemporary art, archives and environmental change in the age of the Anthropocene (2018)'
• Jareh Das : 'Curatorial geographies: curating the spaces of art/science (2018)'
• Mel Nowicki : 'Rethinking domicide: the impact of coalition housing policy on inner London residents (2018)'
• Hannah Awcock : 'Contesting the capital: space, place, and protest in London, 1780-2010 (2018)'
• Mike Duggan : 'Mapping interfaces: an ethnography of everyday digital mapping practices'
• Miranda Ward : 'Bodies of water: writing the cultural geographies of indoor lane swimming'
• Bethan Bide : 'Austerity fashion 1945-1951: re-building fashion cultures in post-War London'
• Jo Hall : Sharing human origins
• Sofie Narbed : Cultural geographies of contemporary dance in Quito, Ecuador
• Fara Che Ishak : Dinescapes: themed restaurants in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Joanna Cagney : Urban politics of living together: a case study of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Elizabeth Haines : 'Time, technology, and territorial value: the colonial cartography of Northern Rhodesia
• Chen Liu : Food and family making in Guangzhou
• Tianfeng Liu  : Skilled Chinese migrants in the UK 
• Danny Mcnally :  Place, social diversity and relational aesthetics: the arts of connection
• Laura Prazeres :  Place and belonging in the exchange student experience
• Laura Price :  Knitted geographies: craft, creativity and the material
• David Rooney : Congestion and modern London
• Priya Vadi :  Eating diasporic Identities: Iranian food in Vancouver & London 
• Michael Anton : 'Places of Live Music: Eventful Geographies of the Roundhouse and the Troubadour' (2015)
• Ashley Dawkins : 'Relational urban interventions: an exploration of politics and collaboration in New York, Chicago and London' (2015)
• Rupert Griffiths : 'Reimagining the Margins: Art of the Urban Fringe' (2015)
• Mia Hunt : 'Keeping Shop, Shaping Place: The Vernacular Curation of London's Ad Hoc Consumption Spaces' (2015)
• Weiqiang Lin : 'Airspace Stories: Reassembling Singapore's Skies' (2015)
• Terri Moreau : 'Subversive Sovereignty: Parodic Representations of Micropatrias Enclaved by the United Kingdom' (2014)
• Hugh Crosfield : ' Commodity Boycotts, Activist Bodywork and Race: A study of the anti-apartheid campaigns of Boycott Outspan Action (1970-1992) and the anti-trafficking campaigns of Stop the Traffik (2006-2013) ' (2014)
• Amy Cutler : Language disembarked: the coast and the forest in modern British poetry (2014)
• Shivani Derrington : ' Diasporic Fashion Space: Women's experiences of 'South Asian' dress aesthetics in London ' (2014)
• Elena Miles : Curating the global city (2014)
• Terri Ann Moreau : Subversive sovereignty: parodic representations of micropatrias enclaved by the United Kingdom (2014)   
• Stephanie Morrice : ' Returning 'home'?: Emotional geographies of the disaster-displaced in Brisbane and Christchurch ' (2014)
• Andre Novoa : " Europeans on the Move: Mobilities and identities of truck drivers, musicians and MEPs " (2014)
• Shuhei Okada : 'Transformation of emptiness. From space to place in Brixton'   
• Emma Rowland : Emotional geographies of care work in the NHS (2014)
• James Thurgill : Enchanted geographies: experiences of place in contemporary British landscape mysticism (2014)
• Xuejuan Zhang : Heritage, identity, and sense of place in Sichuan after the 12 May 2008 earthquake in China (2014)
• Jamie Adcock : Bedrooms on paper: an analysis of the textual representation of children's bedrooms in Britain, c. 1870-Present (2013)
• Caroline Cornish : Curating science in an age of empire: Kew's Museum of Economic Botany (2013)
• Rory Rowan : The crisis of political form: the question of space in the world of Carl Schmitt (2013)
• Harng Luh Sin : Negotiating social responsibilities in Tourism (2013)
• Anyaa Anim-Addo : Place and mobilities in the maritime World:  The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in the Caribbean, c.1838-1914 (2012)
• Maria Das Gracas Brightwell : A taste of home?   Food, identity and belonging among Brazilians in London (2012)
• Francisco Ferreira : Back to the village? An ethnographic study of an Andean community in the early Twenty-first Century (2012)
• Bradley Garrett : Place hacking: tales of urban exploration (2012)
• Louise Henderson : Geographical publishing in mid-Victorian Britain (2012)
• Alison Hess : From hidden technology to exhibition showpiece: The journey of 2LO, the BBC’s first radio transmitter, 1922-2011 (2012)
• Craig Martin : Containing (dis)order: a cultural geography of distributive space (2012)
• Ashley Nye : Designing and experiencing sensory urban environments: an intensive case study of grand union village in west London (2012)
• Daniel Whittall : Creolising London: Black West Indian activism and the politics of race and empire in Britain, 1931-1948 (2012)
• Cristiana Zara : Sacred journeys and profane travellers: representations and spatial practice in Varanasi, India (2012)
• Thomas Barton : Sonic memory spaces : re-siting cultural memory through sound (2011)
• Yuhui Cheng : ‘Grounding migrant belonging: Taiwanese skilled expatriates in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China’ (2011)
• Madeleine Hatfield : ‘Moving home? Domestic geographies of British households returning to the UK from Singapore.’ (2011)
• Philip Hatfield : Colonial copyright and the photographic image: Canada in the frame (2011)
• Kimberley Peters : Floating places: assembling the marginal geographies of radio Caroline's ships (2011)
• Eriko Yasue : The practice of landscape among Japanese tourists (2011)
• Benjamin Coles : Placing alternative consumption: a topograph of Borough Fine Foods Market, London (2010)
• Peter Gordon : Tongued with fire':  the politics and poetics of displayed human remains in museums (2010)
• Lowri Jones : Local knowledge, indigenous agency and the role of intermediariies in the history of exploration: studies from the RGS-IBG collections (2010)
• John Law : Automobility and the expanding metropolis: motoring culture and the growth of London 1925 -1939 (2010)
• Naomi Riddiford : Palaeoenviromental history of the public understanding of scientific research: prehistoric salt production in the Seille Valley, NE France (2010)
• Tara Woodyer : Playing with Toys: the animated geographies of children's material culture (2010)
• Mauro Cannone : Social capital and networks of trust in Venice (2009)
• Luke Dickens : Performing the urban margins: graffiti, space and social exclusion in contemporary London (2009)
• Rajinder Sidhu : Citizen-consumers, challenging encounters and emotional labour: the work of receptionists in the accident and emergency department of three London hospitals (2009)
• Hilary Geoghegan : The cultures of enthusiasm: technology, material culture and museums (2008)
• Bertie Mandelblatt : Feeding the French Atlantic: colonial food provisioning networks in the Franco-Caribbean during the Ancien Regime (2008)
• Glenys Owen-Jones : Experiences of a level geography fieldwork   (2008)
• Amanda Rogers : Geographies of performance and identity in Asian-American theatre (2008)
• Justin Spinney : Cycling the city: movement, meaning and practice (2008).
• Ella Harris , 'Time and politics in the contemporary city' (2018)
• Nelly Ben Hayoun , 'No more heroes:  the geographies of ground-control: the Opera for Techno-Wonders' (2018)
• Tania El Khoury , 'Gardens speak: the politics of performance art' (2018)
• Noeme Santana , 'Engineering and the corporate photographic archive: A study of the albums of S. Pearson & Son, 1880–1930'
• Spyridoula Pappa : Palaeoecology and Palaeodiet: reconstructing adaptations in the Middle and Late Pleistocene Ursidae through geochemistry, dental microwear and morphology.
• Jennifer Sherriff : The palaeoenvironmental context of hominin occupation in Britain during Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 11.
• Gareth Tye : An annually resolved climate record for MIS 11: Investigating landscape response to abrupt events during the closest climatic analogue to the Holocene.
• Lucy Flower : Canid evolution and palaeoecology in the Pleistocene of western Europe, with particular reference to the wolf Canis lupus L.1758 (2014)
• Natalie Russell : Environmental Change in the Gebel Akhdar, northern Libya, over the last Glacial / Interglacial cycle (2014)
• Peter Riches : The Palaeoenvironmental & Neotectonic History of the Early Pleistocene Crag Basin in East Anglia (2013)
• Anna Bourne : The late Quaternary tephrochronology of the Adriatic region: implications for the synchronisation of marine records (2012)
• Chao-Yuan Chen : Application of NEXTMap DEM Data to the Mapping and Interpretation of Late Quaternary Landforms in the Scottish Highlands (2012)
• Katie Denton : An investigation of mid to late Holocene fossil insects from raised bogs in the Irish Midlands (2012)
• Mark Hardiman : Testing & Refining the Chronology & Correlation of Mediterranean Pollen Records of the Late Last Glacial Age using Tephrochronology (2012)
• Caroline Juby : London before London: Reconstructing a Palaeolithic landscape (2011)
• Christopher Satow : The Tephrostratigraphy of Three Late Quaternary Mediterranean Marine Cores  (2012)
• Theodora Moutsiou : The obsidian evidence for the scale of social life during the Palaeolithic (2011)
• Mark Ruddy : The western Palaearctic evolution of the water vole (Arvicola) (2011) 
• Ruth Waghorne : Rapid climate change during the Lateglacial in southern England: a multiproxy study at Sproughton, Suffolk (2011)
• Barnaby Crocker : The Evolution and Palaeoecology of the Pleistocene Woolly Rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799) (2010)
• Lucy Farr : Enhancing our Understanding of Mesolithic Environments and Resource Exploitation in South-East England: a Case Study from Surrey (2010)
• Alison MacLeod : The Potential for Developing an Annually-Resolved Chronology of Events in Scotland during the last glacial-interglacial transition (16-8 ka BP) (2010)
• Christopher Robert Batchelor : Middle Holocene environmental changes and the history of yew (Taxus baccata L.) in the lower Thames Valley
• Ian Matthews : The Potential of Tephrostratigraphy in the investigation of Wetland Archaeological Records (2009)
• Matthew Canti : Archaeological significance of calcium carbonate granules in buried soils (2008)
• Kirstin Coley : Environmental history of the Peruvian Altiplano (2009)
• Matthew Grove : The Palaeolithic evidence for changing group size and social interaction (2008)

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Finding UK theses

The Bodleian Libraries hold copies of some UK theses. These are listed on SOLO  and may be ordered for delivery to a reading room. 

These theses are not all catalogued in a uniform way. Adding the word 'thesis' as a keyword in SOLO may help, but this is unlikely to find all theses, and may find published works based upon theses as well as unpublished theses.

Card catalogue  

Some early theses accepted for higher degrees and published before 1973 are held in the Bodleian Libraries but are not yet catalogued on SOLO. These holdings can be found in the Foreign Dissertations Catalogue card index.

To request access to material in the catalogue, speak to library staff at the Main Enquiry Desk in the Lower Reading Room of the Old Bodleian Library, or contact us via  [email protected]  or phone (01865 277162). 

Other finding aids

Proquest dissertations & theses.

You can use ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global  to locate theses accepted for higher degrees at universities in the UK and Ireland since 1716. The service also provides abstracts of these theses.

Library Hub Discover

You can use Library Hub Discover to search the online catalogues of some of the UK’s largest university research libraries to see if a thesis is held by another UK library.

EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service, managed by the British Library. It aims to provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK higher education institutions, with free access to the full text of many theses. It has around 500,000 records for theses awarded by over 120 institutions.

UTREES - University Theses in Russian, Soviet, and East European Studies 1907–

UTREES is a bibliographical database of research in the British Isles. The database has been continuously extended from the printed volume, most recently with 202 recent theses added in 2021. The database lists details of over 6,000 doctoral and selected masters’ theses from British and Irish universities. It covers research relating to Eastern and Central Europe, Russia and the area of the former USSR, including Central Asia, the Caucasus and Siberia.

Individual universities

You can also go to individual UK universities' sites for their online theses repositories.

You can purchase copies of Cambridge University theses through the Cambridge University Library's online order form . There is a standard charge of £75 (plus VAT and postage). White Rose ETheses Online is an online repository of doctoral theses from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. It is part of a national and international network of open access online databases which promote access to research outputs. Many theses have been digitised by the British Library as part of the EThOS. However, there have been instances where theses are available via WhiteRose eTheses Online before they reach EThOS.  

Ordering UK theses

Many theses from other UK universities are available from the British Library's EThOS service.  Unfortunately, this service is currently unavailable due to a cyber attack on the British Library.  

You can also request theses from other UK universities as an inter-library request .

Please note that it may not be possible to obtain some theses due to restrictions on lending placed by the author of the thesis or the institution at which it is held.

Library Services

Resources for Doctoral Researchers

Open Science guide for PhD students

Designed to accompany you at every step of your research while doing your PhD.

UCL Doctoral Skills Development Programme (DSDP)

Open to all postgraduate research students at UCL.

Support for undertaking research

Library support for literature searching includes:

• guidance on which resources are appropriate for your topic;
• support for carrying out an initial literature search;
• guidance on carrying out cited reference searching;
• support for developing advanced search strategies to ensure comprehensive literature retrieval, including searching for systematic reviews.

LibrarySkills@UCL

See our LibrarySkills@UCL guides to:

• Searching for information : includes videos and online tutorials on search techniques and searching specific resources.
• Systematic reviews

We also offer  training sessions on literature searching . For support from specialist library staff, contact your  site or subject librarian .

When you first embark on a research project, specialist library staff can help you to scope your project to determine the current level of knowledge existing in that field, including support for:

• carrying out searches for literature (see above)
• identifying relevant conference abstracts and proceedings
• identifying similar research in progress and research groups with similar interests in the UK and beyond.
• Systematic reviews .

Library staff can provide guidance on the many tools available to keep you up to date with research in your field or issues and events that may influence your research.

Journal article alerts

• Table of contents alerts, or eToCs, can be set up to send the tables of contents of new issues of journals to you by email or RSS feeds. Publishers' websites also usually allow you to set up alerts to individual journals.
• Subject search alerts can be set up in many bibliographic databases, such as  Web of Science  or  Scopus . Some databases have the option of receiving alerts by email.
• Cited reference alerts inform you when a particular paper has been cited in another paper. Some databases, such as  Web of Science  and  Scopus , and some publishers' websites allow you to set up this type of alert.

Social media

• Blogs and twitter: Many institutions, publishers or individuals maintain blogs or tweet about issues that may be relevant to your research.
• Social networking sites and showcasing research work:  IRIS  (Institutional Research Information System) is UCL's research portal, where you can identify the research activities of researchers, research groups, research centres and interdisciplinary networks across the whole of UCL. Social or professional networking sites aimed at researchers include  ResearchGate  and  Academia .
• Social citation sharing: Sites such as  Mendeley  and  Zotero  enable you to share interesting papers to find out what other like-minded researchers are reading.

Funding opportunities and research news

• Find out about external funding opportunities via UCL's subscription to  RESEARCHconnect . To access the site click on the link above and use the ‘Log In via institution’ button to select UCL, and use your UCL user name and password. From there you will also be able to access other tools, save your searches and set up alerts for yourself as well as for a group.
• The website of the  UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)  and the individual research councils include news on funding and research. Other useful sites include  Research Professional  and  Vitae .
• Please visit  UCL Research  for more information.

Other alerts

• New books: Many publishers' and booksellers' websites have alerting facilities for new books.
• Conferences and events: Monitor professional organisations or societies in your field for new on forthcoming conferences and events. There are also generic conference alert services available, such as  AllConferences.com  and  Conference Alerts .
• For support from specialist library staff, contact your  site or subject librarian .

Library staff can advise on systematic approaches to managing bibliographic references as well as standards for citing references.

Reference management software enables you to create your own database of references relevant to your research and then to insert references and format them automatically in the citation style of your choice within a Word document. See our guide to Reference Management Software, and guides to EndNote, Mendeley and Zotero. We also have access to  SciWheel .

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Library staff can advise on correctly citing your sources and you can find further information on the UCL Library Services  References, Citations and Avoiding Plagiarism  web pages.

For support from specialist library staff on the use of reference management software or citing references,  attend a training session  or contact your  site or subject librarian .

Library staff offer advice on legislation surrounding  copyright  and licensing schemes, issues relating to the work you create including  Intellectual Property Rights , Creative Commons and model licenses to publish, and the re-use of copyright material in your own work.

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All SOAS PhD theses can be found through the Library catalogue and this will tell you if there is a digital copy which can be viewed online.

• Search by author or title if you know the details of the particular thesis you would like to see
• To browse our PhD thesis collection enter ‘Thesis’ in the search box and select ‘Classmark’ in the drop-down menu
• To limit your search of theses to a particular subject then click on ‘Advanced’ select ‘Add Search Field’ and enter keywords into the new search box
• If a digital copy of the PhD thesis is available for you to view online there will either be a note in the catalogue record or a separate entry for the digital copy

Using Printed Copies of SOAS PhD Theses

• SOAS keeps printed copies of all PhD Theses and they can be consulted in our Special Collections Reading Room on Level F
• All printed PhD theses need to be ordered before you visit the Reading Room. Once you have found the PhD thesis you need you can fill in an online order form through the ‘Order archive material’ link from the catalogue record of the PhD thesis. Alternatively you can fill in an order form available from the Library Enquiry Desk or Special Collections Reading Room
• Before you consult any SOAS PhD thesis in the Special Collections Reading Room you will be asked to fill in a Data Protection Declaration
• You are permitted to photograph a maximum of 5% of a PhD thesis or one complete chapter (whichever is the greatest) for personal research purposes only

Using Digital Copies of SOAS PhD Theses

• A significant number of SOAS PhD theses have been made available freely online (with permission from the author) through SOAS Research Online since 2011
• You can browse the latest PhD theses via SOAS Research Online or you can search by author or title if you know the details of the thesis you need
• Some PhD theses in SOAS Research Online are restricted for a period of time at the request of the author. They will only become available digitally once this restriction period has expired
• A number of our PhD theses (dated before 2011) are available via the British Library EThOS service. You can search the EThOS database to check if a PhD thesis is available

Finding PhD theses from Other Institutions

To find PhD theses produced at other institutions we recommend you use the following resources

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University-Wide Requirements for the Ph.D. Dissertation

Dissertations must comply with the specifications set by the Library, by the author's department, and by the University. Departments, divisions, and schools may have requirements in addition to those described in this booklet. Students are responsible for informing themselves of these additional requirements.

The Dissertation Office provides information on the University’s dissertation policies. We help doctoral students understand dissertation formatting and submission requirements, and we assist with the submission process. Students are welcome to contact us with questions.

Contact the Dissertation Office

Web: phd.lib.uchicago.edu Email: [email protected] Phone: 773-702-7404 Visit: Suite 104D, Center for Digital Scholarship, Regenstein Library

Routine Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Actual hours vary to accommodate meetings, workshops, and training. The office will close during the interim between quarters.

Dissertation Requirements

Doctoral dissertations are original contributions to scholarship. As a condition for receipt of the doctorate, all students are required to submit their dissertations to Knowledge@UChicago, the University’s open access repository. If a dissertation includes copyrighted material beyond fair use, the author must obtain permission from the holder of the copyright.

The public sharing of original dissertation research is a principle to which the University is deeply committed, and dissertations should be made available to the scholarly community at the University of Chicago and elsewhere in a timely manner. If dissertation authors are concerned that making their research publicly available might endanger research subjects or themselves, jeopardize a pending patent, complicate publication of a revised dissertation, or otherwise be unadvisable, they may, in consultation with faculty in their field (and as appropriate, research collaborators), restrict access to their dissertation for a limited period of time according to the guidelines outlined by the Dissertation Office. If a dissertation author needs to renew an embargo at the end of its term or initiate an embargo after graduation, the author must contact the Dissertation Office with the embargo request. Embargo renewals may be approved only in rare instances, and in general no more than one renewal will be allowed.

All dissertations must follow the formatting and submission requirements stated in the University-Wide Requirements for the Ph.D. Dissertation , available from the Dissertation Office on the first floor of the Joseph Regenstein Library in the Center for Digital Scholarship.

UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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This collection contains University of Texas at Austin electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The collection includes ETDs primarily from 2001 to the present. Some pre-2001 theses and dissertations have been digitized and added to this collection, but those are uncommon. The library catalog is the most comprehensive list of UT Austin theses and dissertations.

Since 2010, the Office of Graduate Studies at UT Austin has required all theses and dissertations to be made publicly available in Texas ScholarWorks; however, authors are able to request an embargo of up to seven years. Embargoed ETDs will not show up in this collection. Most of the ETDs in this collection are freely accessible to all users, but some pre-2010 works require a current UT EID at point of use. Please see the FAQs for more information. If you have a question about the availability of a specific ETD, please contact [email protected].

Some items in this collection may contain offensive images or text. The University of Texas Libraries is committed to maintaining an accurate and authentic scholarly and historic record. An authentic record is essential for understanding our past and informing the present. In order to preserve the authenticity of the historical record we will not honor requests to redact content, correct errors, or otherwise remove content, except in cases where there are legal concerns (e.g. potential copyright infringement, inclusion of HIPAA/FERPA protected information or Social Security Numbers) or evidence of a clear and imminent threat to personal safety or well-being.

This policy is in keeping with the  American Library Association code of ethics  to resist efforts to censor library resources, and the  Society of American Archivists code of ethics  that states "archivists may not willfully alter, manipulate, or destroy data or records to conceal facts or distort evidence." Please see UT Libraries'  Statement on Harmful Language and Content  for more information.

Authors of these ETDs have retained their copyright while granting the University of Texas Libraries the non-exclusive right to reproduce and distribute their works.

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These are University of London research degrees examined wholly by thesis, prepared under the supervision of a member of staff of the Institute. Students can pursue their academic interests within the friendly and supportive environment of the Institute, enhanced by the outstanding libraries of the University of London, including our own prestigious library collection.

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Course details

The Institute of Historical Research is based in Bloomsbury, located within the University of London’s Senate House, and in easy walking distance of the British Library.

Our research students have access to the world-renowned IHR's Wohl Library with over 200,000 history books and periodicals, the digital and online resources within the Institute, as well as free access to the University of London’s Senate House Library with over a million books. Also available are other unique collections such as the Institute of Classical Studies Library and the Warburg Institute Library.

Students are also welcome to attend the wide range of history seminars and specialist research training programmes hosted by the IHR. Students also benefit from the Institute’s network of Senior, Honorary, Research and Associate fellows with their many research interests.

There are also opportunities to work alongside our established research centres: the  Centre for the History of People, Place and Community , the Victoria County History and Digital History .

The Institute is at the centre of academic history, and has partnerships with numerous nationally and internationally renowned library and art collections, as well as links to the cultural and heritage sector, professional bodies, London guilds and livery companies, archives, the City of London and higher education institutions in the UK and internationally.

Subject areas covered

The Institute currently offers supervision in a number of subject areas across different periods, including, but not limited to:

• Medieval British history
• Modern British history
• Local, regional and community histories of the British Isles
• Place and Identity
• Early medieval Northumbria and the north
• Later medieval armies and warfare
• Urban and metropolitan history (especially London), including comparative approaches across Europe and elsewhere
• Late medieval and early modern urban history
• Digital history and Historical GIS
• History of propaganda in the twentieth century
• History of the First and Second World Wars
• History of emotions in modern Britain
• The everyday lives of 'ordinary' people
• Architecture, planning and the built environment in Britain from the twentieth century onward
• The British Commonwealth and British decolonisation
• History and policy
• Medievalism and other usages of the past
• American foreign relations
• US political history

Tuition Fees

2024-25 fees, mphil/phd .

• Home Full-Time : £6,253
• Home Part-Time : £3,126
• Overseas Full-Time : £15,810
• Overseas Part-Time : £7,905

Potential supervisors at the IHR

Adam Chapman

Catherine Clarke

Justin Colson

Claire Langhamer

Philip Murphy

Ruth Slatter

Simon Trafford

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The IHR Doctoral Fellowships are available for either 6 or 12 months, and are for PhD students to complete a doctorate.