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To find a university of bristol thesis:.

Use  Library Search  as if you were trying to find a book, using either the author's name, the title or a combination of the two. When your search results display, you can refine your search by using the 'Resource type - Thesis' option.

If the thesis you wish to consult is not held on open shelves, you can request it using the 'reserve a copy' button.

To find theses from other institutions:

UK’s national thesis service providing records of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible. Please note: UK theses not available on EThOS can be requested via the Inter-Library Loan service.

Includes citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day. Full-text is available for most dissertations added since 1997. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress, it also includes UK & Ireland content.

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The Library holds UWE Bristol PhD theses in print formats. In addition, you can search for PhD theses awarded by other universities.

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(re)negotiating narrative identity : the lived experience of women diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

Supervisor: Johnson, H. (Supervisor), Grist, R. (Supervisor) & Thurston, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis

A 360-degree appraisal of the barriers to medication adherence in paediatric patients with long-term illness

Supervisor: Macadam, A. (Supervisor)

Abandonment and reinstated management upon coastal wet grasslands in Estonia

A biomonitoring tool to identify and quantify the impacts of fine sediment in river and stream ecosystems, a blackboard based hybrid multi-agent approach for machine learning using reinforcement learning techniques.

Supervisor: Miltos Petridis, M. (External person) (Supervisor) & Kapetanakis, S. (Supervisor)

Aboriginal Australian textile design in the northern territory: Postcolonial making as praxis

Supervisor: Rajguru, M. (Supervisor), Wintle, C. (Supervisor) & Woodham, J. (Supervisor)

Abundance, distribution and functional characterisation of gut-associated Type II toxin-antitoxin systems

Academic research collaborations in kenya: structure, processes and information technologies, academic work, learning and identity, acceptance of mobile health applications for obesity in saudi arabia.

Supervisor: Pemberton, L. (Supervisor) & Marshall, A. (Supervisor)

Accepting wheelchair use

Acculturation of young mauritian people of chagossian origin in the uk: negotiating living in the host society.

Supervisor: Robinson, C. (Supervisor) & Pickering, A. (Supervisor)

A characterisation and functional analysis of the role of the 14-3-3-like proteins in neuronal ageing in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis

Supervisor: Yeoman, M. (Supervisor), Jennert-Burston, K. (Supervisor) & Adu, J. (Supervisor)

A combustion-led engine design approach for achieving ultra-low engine emissions for future automotive applications

Supervisor: Morgan, R. (Supervisor), Mason, D. (Supervisor), Heikal, M. (Supervisor) & Atkins, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

A comparative socio-cultural study of design in Korea, Japan and Russia from World War II to the Millennium

A compton-background-correction method for fast-timing measurements using labr 3 (ce) detectors: the case of 114pd.

Supervisor: Bruce, A. (Supervisor), Podolyák, Z. (External person) (Supervisor) & Rudigier, M. (External person) (Supervisor)

A computer model for heat exchange processes in mobile air-conditioning systems

A cross-sectional study of serum brain derived neurotropic factor (bdnf) concentrations in a saudi population and changes associated with the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssris) in patients with alzheimer’s disease.

Supervisor: Gard, P. (Supervisor), Scutt, G. (Supervisor) & Abanmy, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Activated carbon & carbon-cryogel composites for haemoperfusion based applications

Activation of the nlrp3 inflammasome in health and disease.

Supervisor: Sacre, S. (External person) (Supervisor), Flint, M. (Supervisor) & Mullen, L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Active Reflection and the will to learn

Supervisor: Reeve, S. (Supervisor)

Actvity of ortho-phthalaldehyde against biofilm bacteria using an in-vitro model system

Acute regulation of skeletal muscle protein metabolism by nutrients, exercise and hypoxia.

Supervisor: Watt, P. (Supervisor) & Maxwell, N. (Supervisor)

Adaptable housing: accommodating change

A demethylation screen identifies novel targets of epigenetic regulation in lung cancer.

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Theses & dissertations: home, access to theses and dissertations from other institutions and from the university of cambridge.

This guide provides information on searching for theses of Cambridge PhDs and for theses of UK universities and universities abroad. 

For information and guidance on depositing your thesis as a cambridge phd, visit the cambridge office of scholarly communication pages on theses here ., this guide gives essential information on how to obtain theses using the british library's ethos service. .

On the last weekend of October, the British Library became the victim of a major cyber-attack. Essential digital services including the BL catalogue, website and online learning resources went dark, with research services like the EThOS collection of more than 600,000 doctoral theses suddenly unavailable. The BL state that they anticipate restoring more services in the next few weeks, but disruption to certain services is now expected to persist for several months. For the latest news on the attack and information on the restoration of services, please follow the BL blog here:  Knowledge Matters blog  and access the LibGuide page here:  British Library Outage Update - Electronic Legal Deposit - LibGuides at University of Cambridge Subject Libraries

A full list of resources for searching theses online is provided by the Cambridge A-Z, available here .

University of Cambridge theses

Finding a cambridge phd thesis online via the institutional repository.

The University's institutional repository, Apollo , holds full-text digital versions of over 11,000 Cambridge PhD theses and is a rapidly growing collection deposited by Cambridge Ph.D. graduates. Theses in Apollo can be browsed via this link . More information on how to access theses by University of Cambridge students can be found on the access to Cambridge theses webpage.   The requirement for impending PhD graduates to deposit a digital version in order to graduate means the repository will be increasing at a rate of approximately 1,000 per year from this source.   About 200 theses are added annually through requests to make theses Open Access or via requests to digitize a thesis in printed format.

Locating and obtaining a copy of a Cambridge PhD thesis (not yet available via the repository)

Theses can be searched in iDiscover .  Guidance on searching for theses in iDiscover can be found here .   Requests for consultation of printed theses, not available online, should be made at the Manuscripts Reading Room (Email:  [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)1223 333143).   Further information on the University Library's theses, dissertations and prize essays collections can be consulted at this link .

Researchers can order a copy of an unpublished thesis which was deposited in print form either through the Library’s  Digital Content Unit via the image request form , or, if the thesis has been digitised, it may be available in the Apollo repository. Copies of theses may be provided to researchers in accordance with the  law  and in a manner that is common across UK libraries.  The law allows us to provide whole copies of unpublished theses to individuals as long as they sign a declaration saying that it is for non-commercial research or private study.

How to make your thesis available online through Cambridge's institutional repository

Are you a Cambridge alumni and wish to make your Ph.D. thesis available online? You can do this by depositing it in Apollo the University's institutional repository. Click here for further information on how to proceed.    Current Ph.D students at the University of Cambridge can find further information about the requirements to deposit theses on the Office of Scholarly Communication theses webpages.

UK Theses and Dissertations

Electronic copies of Ph.D. theses submitted at over 100 UK universities are obtainable from EThOS , a service set up to provide access to all theses from participating institutions. It achieves this by harvesting e-theses from Institutional Repositories and by digitising print theses as they are ordered by researchers using the system. Over 250,000 theses are already available in this way. Please note that it does not supply theses submitted at the universities of Cambridge or Oxford although they are listed on EThOS.

Registration with EThOS is not required to search for a thesis but is necessary to download or order one unless it is stored in the university repository rather than the British Library (in which case a link to the repository will be displayed). Many theses are available without charge on an Open Access basis but in all other cases, if you are requesting a thesis that has not yet been digitised you will be asked to meet the cost. Once a thesis has been digitised it is available for free download thereafter.

When you order a thesis it will either be immediately available for download or writing to hard copy or it will need to be digitised. If you order a thesis for digitisation, the system will manage the process and you will be informed when the thesis is available for download/preparation to hard copy.

See the Search results section of the  help page for full information on interpreting search results in EThOS.

EThOS is managed by the British Library and can be found at http://ethos.bl.uk . For more information see About EThOS .

World-wide (incl. UK) theses and dissertations

Electronic versions of non-UK theses may be available from the institution at which they were submitted, sometimes on an open access basis from the institutional repository. A good starting point for discovering freely available electronic theses and dissertations beyond the UK is the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) , which facilitates searching across institutions. Information can also usually be found on the library web pages of the relevant institution.

The DART Europe etheses portal lists several thousand full-text theses from a group of European universities.

The University Library subscribes to the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses  (PQDT) database which from August 31 2023 is accessed on the Web of Science platform.  To search this index select it from the Web of Science "Search in" drop-down list of databases (available on the Documents tab on WoS home page)

PQDT includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations, representing 700 leading academic institutions worldwide from 1861 to the present day. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The University Library only subscribes to the abstracting & indexing version of the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database and NOT the full text version.  A fee is payable for ordering a dissertation from this source.   To obtain the full text of a dissertation as a downloadable PDF you can submit your request via the University Library Inter-Library Loans department (see contact details below). NB this service is only available to full and current members of the University of Cambridge.

Alternatively you can pay yourself for the dissertation PDF on the PQDT platform. Link from Web of Science record display of any thesis to PQDT by clicking on "View Details on ProQuest".  On the "Preview" page you will see an option "Order a copy" top right.  This will allow you to order your own copy from ProQuest directly.

Dissertations and theses submitted at non-UK universities may also be requested on Inter-Library Loan through the Inter-Library Loans department (01223 333039 or 333080, [email protected] )

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• Online thesis consent form As of June 2022 we have transitioned to providing online access to University of Southampton theses from the University of Southampton Institutional Repository ePrints. This provides a single point of access for recent and past theses available digitally.
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Check that your PhD thesis is online

Use the online thesis consent form to check and give the University permission for your complete PhD thesis to be made available online. Theses  prior to 2008 can only be made publicly available with the authors permission.

Evidence shows that alumni who allow their theses to be digitised and put into Southampton’s Institutional Repository, will see a dramatic improvement in their Google rankings. This visibility is good for your research and good for the University.

Post-2008 Doctoral Theses

Since the 2008/2009 session, University of Southampton theses have been submitted electronically and are available to readers from our Institutional Repository, subject to embargo. Please check our repository, ePrints Soton ,to discover if the thesis is available online

Pre-2008 Doctoral Theses

Check ePrints  to discover if the thesis is available online. If a thesis is not available online, request a thesis as detailed below.

If for any reason it is not possible to provide a thesis, Library staff will contact you directly.

Members of the University of Southampton

log in to Library Search , search the item you are looking for and select the item; select Click and Collect to indicate how you would to access the item (as digital or paper copy) and submit your request.

You receive an email from the Library stating the thesis can be collected from the Hartley Library Loans Desk ( print theses are reference only but will be held at the Hartley Library Loans Desk for consultation for 3 weeks) or provided as a PDF via the Safesend .

External requesters

Complete a thesis request form and submit it to the Inter-Library Loans section of your own library, who will request the thesis on your behalf. If the thesis is loanable, a searchable PDF of the thesis may be sent to you via Safesend.

Please note that this may take up to six weeks if there is no existing digital copy, as the original has to be scanned. There is currently no charge for this service. Please note: during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown we have limited access to the thesis print archive so there might be a delay in the provision of digitised theses where there is no existing digital copy.

Undergrad & Masters Dissertations

The Library does not normally hold undergraduate or taught masters dissertations.  University of Southampton students should enquire at their Faculty Office regarding any local arrangements for access to previous students' dissertations or final year projects.

Finding Theses

You can search ePrints Soton , our institutional repository to find theses from the University of Southampton. Use the Advanced Search option, select Thesis as the item type, and select your School or Group or search by keyword.

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A case study on learners' 'skills o discovery and interaction' in instant messenger-mediated intercultural dialogue between university students in taiwan and in uk.

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Achievement of Nepalese pupils in Hong Kong primary schools : barriers and education needs

Supervisor: Hill, T. (Supervisor) & Tikly, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Education (EdD)

Acquisition of Implicit Knowledge of Second Language Syntax: The Effects of Input Modality and Working Memory

Supervisor: Yu, G. (Supervisor) & Kazanina, N. (Supervisor)

A critical investigation into students’ perceptions of the impact of EMI policy on their content learning and social equity in a HEI in Oman

Supervisor: Sharples, R. (Supervisor) & Giampapa, F. (Supervisor)

A Critical Realist Analysis of the Legitimising Affects of the Entrepreneurial University

Supervisor: Manchester, H. (Supervisor) & Orchard, J. (Supervisor)

A critical review of the role of the English funding body for higher education in the relationship between the State and higher education in the period 1945-2003

Supervisor: McMahon, A. (Supervisor)

Across the waves: Departmental leadership in the field of management and technology studies at a research university

Supervisor: Macfarlane, B. J. (Supervisor)

A formative perspective on language teaching and assessment: supporting young ethnic minority children in English primary classrooms

A longitudinal examination of occupational aspirations in middle childhood and adolescence.

Supervisor: Rose, J. (Supervisor), McKeown Jones, S. (Supervisor) & Washbrook, E. V. (Supervisor)

A meta-theory analysis of teachers’ beliefs and practice with regard to low prior attaining students in mathematics: The representations of teacher voice.

Supervisor: Coles, A. (Supervisor) & Browne, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Master's Thesis › Master of Science (MSc)

Amidst reforms: Mexican Teacher Evaluation and Professional Development from the perspective of teachers, headteachers, and policymakers.

Supervisor: Thomas, S. (Supervisor) & Washbrook, L. (Supervisor)

A mixed methods approach to understanding the relationship between computing students’ approaches to learning and academic performance for different entry pathways

Supervisor: Browne, W. (Supervisor)

A mixed methods investigation exploring the influence of cognitive flexibility and gender stereotyping beliefs on the career aspirations of late adolescent students.

Supervisor: Sedgewick, F. (Supervisor), Bakopoulou, I. (Supervisor) & Howard, P. L. (Supervisor)

A Mobile Learning Model for Clinical Learning in Hong Kong: A Case Study

Supervisor: Manchester, H. (Supervisor)

A multidimensional investigation of a data-driven approach to learning collocations

Supervisor: Woodfield, H. (Supervisor) & Yu, G. (Supervisor)

An action research investigation into the implementation of the New National Curriculum (2014) in mathematics, in one primary school in the South West of England, and the changes and effects it provokes on children’s learning, with a focus on the operation of division.

Supervisor: Brown, L. (Supervisor) & Coles, A. (Supervisor)

Analysis of longitudinal jaw growth data to study sex differences in timing and intensity of the adolescent growth spurt for normal growth and skeletal discrepancies

Supervisor: Leckie, G. (Supervisor), Tilling, K. (Supervisor) & Hughes, R. (Supervisor)

An application of social categorisation and social identity theory to mental retardation.

An approach to enacting environmental education in schools in hong kong: a green future programme that enhances a sense of place.

Supervisor: Bainton, D. (Supervisor) & Brownhill, S. (Supervisor)

A Narrative inquiry into private English language institution non-NES teachers’ identities in Indonesia: Journeys of becoming English teachers

Supervisor: Giampapa, F. (Supervisor) & Mbogo Barrett, A. (Supervisor)

An educational intervention bridging the theory-practice gap in dental students: ‘It is not a cooking recipe’

Supervisor: Dymock, D. (Supervisor), Whittington, K. (Supervisor) & Barnes, S. (Supervisor)

An Examination of the Value of Associate Degree in Hong Kong: Student, Parent and Teacher Perspectives

Supervisor: Washbrook, E. V. (Supervisor)

An exploratory study into the perceptions of maternity service managers and midwives of succession planning and the midwifery leadership role in England

An exploratory study of stakeholders’ views and the context realities of implementing student-centred instruction within secondary schools in nigeria..

Supervisor: Thomas, S. M. (Supervisor) & McNess, E. M. (Supervisor)

An investigation of the educational value of online mindfulness intervention on in-service teachers and pre-service teachers in Hong Kong

Supervisor: Sedgewick, F. (Supervisor) & Orchard, J. L. (Supervisor)

An investigation of the relationship between carriage of Leptospira and kidney disease in cats

Supervisor: Cogan, T. (Supervisor) & Jeffery, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Master's Thesis › Master of Science by Research (MScR)

Applying a Bourdieusian lens to the school choices of Hong Kong's middle-class parents in public-funded secondary schools

Supervisor: Rowsell, J. (Supervisor) & Watermeyer, R. (Supervisor)

A progressively focused qualitative study of teacher thinking in English for academic purposes (EAP) classroom language assesssment

Supervisor: Rea-Dickins, P. (Supervisor)

A qualitative case study of ethnic Chinese instrumental music teachers’ perceptions of teacher identity and status at an international school in Hong Kong

Supervisor: Timmis, S. (Supervisor) & Gall, M. (Supervisor)

A quasi-experimental study of the Flipped Classroom Method in a Hong Kong Associate Degree of Nursing Studies setting

Supervisor: Orchard, J. (Supervisor) & Browne, W. (Supervisor)

Assessing and understanding Chinese high school students' scientific argumentation competence

Supervisor: Browne, W. (Supervisor) & Mbogo Barrett, A. (Supervisor)

A study into the feasibility and validity of using alternatives to questionnaires to evaluate the impact of a selection of physics & chemistry science communication activities

Supervisor: Wishart, J. M. (Supervisor) & Harrison, T. G. (Supervisor)

A study of knowledge creation-oriented activity through a collaborative media project in two South Korean schools

Supervisor: Timmis, S. (Supervisor) & Manchester, H. (Supervisor)

A study of leadership in Hong Kong self-financing Higher Education

Supervisor: Browne, W. (Supervisor) & Tikly, L. (Supervisor)

A study of some effects of information technology programs on Emirati women students' lives

Supervisor: Deem, R. (Supervisor)

A study of the elements affecting within-class grouping in catering for learner diversity in Hong Kong secondary economics lessons

Supervisor: Wenham, L. (Supervisor) & Trahar, S. (Supervisor)

A successful first-year experience and its associated factors at a university in Hong Kong – A case-study with mixed-method approach

Supervisor: Rose, J. (Supervisor)

Attainment of a global perspective through study abroad programmes in Hong Kong

Supervisor: Robertson, S. (Supervisor)

Attending to Experience: a narrative study of early career teachers of primary mathematics, and an early career researcher, in a process of becoming/continuing

Autonomy and technology in language learning: an investigation into hong kong college students’ personal response towards a technologically-mediated putonghua programme.

Supervisor: Sharples, R. (Supervisor) & Tikly, L. (Supervisor)

A Whole New World: A mixed-method study to investigate the relevance of international service learning to Hong Kong university students’ perspectives on ethnic diversity

Supervisor: Washbrook, L. (Supervisor) & Orchard, J. (Supervisor)

'Beauty Girls': Gendered Subjectivity, Agency and Symbolic Violence in Further Education

Supervisor: Deem, R. (Supervisor) & Bradley, H. K. (Supervisor)

Challenges in conducting clinical nursing skills education for the pre-qualified nursing students at the clinical environment of Hong Kong: a case study

Supervisor: Rowsell, J. (Supervisor) & Kikabhai, N. (Supervisor)

Changes Experienced by Established Teachers After Inclusion Training, and the Resultant Changes in Their Inclusive Practices

Changing roles, moving forward: influences, practices and decisions of national athletics stepping into the workforce.

Supervisor: Rose, J. (Supervisor) & Bakopoulou, I. (Supervisor)

Changing Voices: a diachronic and synchronic study of legal theses written by PhD students at LSE between 1925 & 2015

Supervisor: Giampapa, F. (Supervisor)

Chinese educational 'aid' to Africa : a different 'donor logic'?

Supervisor: Robertson, S. (Supervisor) & Dale, R. (Supervisor)

Chinese Language Needs of South Asian Undergraduates: A Case Study in a Self-financing Vocational Institute in Hong Kong

Chinese postgraduate business students in the uk : a preliminary exploration of their experiences and learning development, choice and decision-making in upper secondary education : a comparative study of pupils' perspectives in england and norway.

Supervisor: Osborn, M. (Supervisor)

Finding theses: Finding Reading University theses & dissertations

• Finding Reading University theses & dissertations
• Finding theses produced in other institutions

From March 2020 all PhD theses received by the Library are in electronic format. These are listed on the Library catalogue and the University's institutional repository, CentAUR. Prior to this the Library received a print copy of all theses accepted for the degrees of PhD and MPhil. There is also some online availability of earlier theses. Print only theses may be digitised on request via British Library's EThOS service (fees apply). 

Masters dissertations are not held by the Library . They can usually be consulted in the relevant University school or department.

Finding theses on the Enterprise catalogue (print and online)

All PhD and MPhil theses received by the Library in print or electronically are included in the Library catalogue. Theses received since 1979 have full entries on the Enterprise catalogue. Theses received prior to 1979 have a brief entry (author, title, department and year) on Enterprise. There are links to any electronic versions in the University's institutional repository, CentAUR, from the catalogue entry for the title.

Use the search box below to search for topic and when viewing your results limit them to the Format 'Thesis'.

You can also search for theses produced by a specific School/Department searching for the department name (for example, University of Reading Chemistry) and then limiting your results to the Format 'Thesis'. Please note that there have been a large number of name changes for Schools/Departments, so you might need to try several searches to find all possible entries.

Finding e-theses

Search the University's institutional repository, CentAUR, to find PhD theses submitted since 2015. Note that some theses might not be available to read online if they have an embargo applied.

Some older University of Reading theses have been digitised and made available via the British Library EThOS Service. 

CentAUR (Central Archive at the University of Reading) is the University of Reading's institutional repository for research publications and equivalent research outputs.

Lists published items, including journal and conference proceedings, books and book sections, and other formats that constitute the research outputs of the University. Where copyright permits, the author's final versions of papers (that have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication), or the equivalent multimedia formats, are included. The main period covered is 2003 onwards. Find out more about CentAUR Help and guidance CentAUR help Contact the CentAUR team for additional advice on using this resource

References for British PhD theses. Includes some full-text, and the ability to request theses for scanning where not already available (a cost might apply). No password required, although you need to register with the service to order a thesis - Find out about ordering a British thesis via EThOS

Search across 600,000+ British PhD theses for free and order full text quickly and easily The service automatically harvests e-theses from Institutional Repositories and digitises paper theses from participating institutions.  List of institutions participating in EThOS Help and guidance Find out about ordering a British thesis via EThOS Search tips for Ethos Contact inter-library loans for further information about requesting theses via EThOS

Consulting a print thesis

Theses are kept on Closed Access and have to be collected for you. The most recent ones are in the University Library, older ones are kept in our Off-site Store. Most theses can be consulted within the Library - they cannot be borrowed. A few theses are not available for consultation, and these are marked as "restricted". Full details of the duration of such restrictions can be found on the catalogue.

Request a thesis by filling in the online form on Enterprise - when viewing the full details of the thesis on the catalogue click on the 'Request Closed Access or Store Items' link on the right-hand side of the screen. See this page for more detailed guidance:

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Useful links for current research students

• Electronic deposition of doctoral theses Guidance on depositing your thesis electronically.
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