You may also wish to explore our page on Dissertations and the Skills for Learning pages on Finding Information and Literature Reviews.
Student Research and Report Writing
Surviving Your DissertationSkills for Learning offers support on a variety of academic writing skills: report writing, writing skills for international students, literature reviews and time management advice. See the Skills for Learning website for step by step guidance on how to plan and manage your workload, and how to structure your dissertation.
They also run workshops, bookable via MyHub, on topics such as:
The DART-Europe portal offers free access to full text European doctoral theses - over 1 million open access research theses from over 500 universities in 29 European countries.
27/11/23 Please see the latest from The British Library as EThOS remains unavailable due to a cyberattack. As a precaution, the British Library has recommended that if you have a password for British Library services that you use for other websites or services, that you change it on those other accounts.
Access to ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education for researchers Worldwide. You can search the EThOS database without having to register. You do, however, need to register and log in if you want to download a thesis from EThOS or to order digitisation of a thesis.
Provides access to 5 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, with nearly 3 million full text dissertations available for download. Please note that, despite global coverage, much of the content is North American.
You can search the University repository for past Leeds Beckett research and the Thesis and Research Data Repository (Figshare) contains online postgraduate research theses/dissertations from Leeds Beckett students.
The Library also has some hard copies of old dissertations and theses. You can consult these to see how previous students conducted and presented their work.
Search on Discover for dissertations and theses held in the Library:
