The Library: PR & Journalism: Dissertations

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Karen Fisher, Catherine Parkin, Maria Simões & Jennie Winterburn

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Subjects: Accounting, Finance & Economics, Business and Management, Economics, Analytics & International Business, Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, Leadership, Governance and People Management, Marketing, PR & Journalism

Help with your dissertation

Book an appointment with your librarian who can help you find the best resources including journal articles, statistics and more.
Use the Skills for Learning website for step-by-step guidance on how to plan and manage your workload, and how to structure your dissertation. You will also find a Finding Information page with lots of tips on how to search for sources.
Search Discover for books on writing your dissertation
Look at past dissertations for inspiration

Leeds Beckett dissertations

Useful books

Help with writing

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, and see workshops, bookable via MyHub, on topics such as:

Reports and dissertations
Word for dissertations and reports
Statistics - analysing your data

Collections of dissertations and theses

Dart This link opens in a new window
The DART-Europe portal offers free access to full text European doctoral theses. The portal gives you access to over 360,000 open access research theses from over 500 universities in 27 European countries.
EThOS (Electronic Theses Online service) This link opens in a new window
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.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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.

Within Leeds Beckett

You can search the University repository for past Leeds Beckett research.

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: