The Library also stocks books on writing dissertations and research skills. Please search Discover. And we offer an Request It! service if you need a book or journal that we don't have in stock.
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.
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.
We keep some printed dissertations and theses in the Library - but not for all subject areas. Dissertations are held within the normal book stock and theses in the High Demand Area at each campus.
You may also find it helpful to look at a similar subject, for example Education or Playwork dissertations
You can search Discover for these:
Skills 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 Centre for Learning and Teaching offers some guidance for postgraduate students in writing theses.
