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“soja come, soja go”: military withdrawal from government in nigeria (1999).

Supervisor: Mitton, K. (Supervisor) & Hiribarren, V. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

“Partners, Not Allies”: Understanding Alignment in China’s New Era of International Relations

Supervisor: Leveringhaus, N. A. (Supervisor) & Brown, K. (Supervisor)

“Determined to Fight Determined to Win”: The combat experience of the People’s Army of Vietnam at Điện Biên Phủ

Supervisor: Busch, P. (Supervisor)

‘Whatever it Takes’: How American Popular Culture Moderates and Diminishes Torture and its Consequences

Supervisor: Gow, J. (Supervisor) & Birchall, C. (Supervisor)

‘The Paradox Of U.S. Security In The 1990s: Trans-Border Challenges From Mexico In The Context Of Nafta’

Supervisor: Dandeker, C. (Supervisor), Hills, A. (Supervisor) & Philpott, W. J. (Supervisor)

‘Silence is like our mother tongue’: An ethnography of distress and care amongst Eritrean diasporic women in the UK

Supervisor: Kelly, A. (Supervisor) & Ansems De Vries, L. (Supervisor)

‘Scientifics’ and ‘Wycombites’: a study of the Quartermaster General’s Department of the British Army, 1799-1814

Supervisor: Davies, H. (Supervisor) & Lambert, A. (Supervisor)

‘More Bang for the Buck’: Examining the Determinants of Terrorist Adoption of New Weapons Technologies

Supervisor: Neumann, P. R. (Supervisor) & Bowen, W. Q. (Supervisor)

‘Listen to our thoughts’: counter-conduct, genealogy and the politics of democratic dissent

Supervisor: Bolt, N. (Supervisor) & Betz, D. (Supervisor)

Worlds of Military Targeting : Martial Epistemologies, Technologies and the Production of the Enemy

Supervisor: Hirst, A. (Supervisor) & Aradau, C. (Supervisor)

Women in UK and US Naval Communications and Intelligence during the Second World War: WRNS and WAVES and the Emergence of Modern Warfare

Supervisor: Maiolo, J. (Supervisor) & Easter, D. (Supervisor)

Who was Leading Whom?: Assessing the Organizational and Strategic Dynamics Between Al Qaeda Central and its Affiliates, 2004 - 2014

Supervisor: Gearson, J. (Supervisor) & Rainsborough, M. L. R. S. (Supervisor)

Who Are Anonymous? : A Study Of Online Activism

Supervisor: Rid, T. (Supervisor), Bolt, N. (Supervisor) & Betz, D. J. (Supervisor)

Where economy and security meet: How Chinese Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) have become a security threat in Europe (2016-2020)

Supervisor: Leveringhaus, N. A. (Supervisor) & Knoerich, J. M. (Supervisor)

When Rambo Meets the Red Cross: Exploring the civil-military relationship in fragile and low-intensity conflict affected areas

Supervisor: Betz, D. (Supervisor) & Chisholm, A. (Supervisor)

What impact did US Ballistic Missile Defence have on post-Cold War US-Russian Relations?

Supervisor: Deyermond, R. M. (Supervisor) & Bowen, W. Q. (Supervisor)

What Good are Alliances in Great Power Relations?: Explaining the Transformative Nature of Alliance Politics

Supervisor: Ladwig III, W. (Supervisor) & Patalano, A. (Supervisor)

What determines resilience in military Class 8B logistic systems, and knowing these determinants, how can we enhance Estonian military Class 8B logistic system resilience?

Supervisor: Murphy, D. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Master's Thesis › Master of Philosophy

WE SELF-CATEGORISE, THEREFORE WE THINK: The Chinese Government and IR Scholars’ Ways of Thinking concerning the Post-Cold War Japan-U.S. Alliance (1992-2012)

Supervisor: Pacheco Pardo, R. (Supervisor) & Patalano, A. (Supervisor)

Wearing the Red Cross: The relationship between military and civilian healthcare workers across aid, development and peacebuilding.

Supervisor: Sullivan, R. (Supervisor), Bricknell, M. (Supervisor) & Sullivan, R. (Supervisor)

Was the Dhofar War of 1965-1975 a British victory?

Supervisor: Ladwig III, W. (Supervisor) & Anglim, S. (Supervisor)

Wartime tactical adaptation and operational success: British and Japanese armies in Burma and India, 1941–45

Supervisor: Philpott, W. (Supervisor) & Betz, D. (Supervisor)

Warrior-Maverick Culture: The Evolution of Adaptability in the U.S. Marine Corps

Supervisor: Farrell, T. G. (Supervisor) & Stone, J. G. (Supervisor)

War on its Head: An Oral History of the Helmandi Conflict 1978-2012

Supervisor: Farrell, T. G. (Supervisor)

Wargaming in Military Education for Army Officers and Officer Cadets

Supervisor: Chin, W. A. (Supervisor) & Sabin, P. A. G. (Supervisor)

War at Home: Strategic Narratives of the War on Terrorism

Supervisor: Busch, P. E. (Supervisor) & Betz, D. J. (Supervisor)

Victory and Strategic Culture: The Marines, the Army and Vietnam; First Corps Tactical Zone 1965-1971

Supervisor: Holden Reid, B. T. (Supervisor) & Sabin, P. A. G. (Supervisor)

Variations in Organisational and Employee Responses to High-Impact, Low-Probability Events

Supervisor: Rogers, M. B. (Supervisor)

Understanding the impact of emotional stress on crisis decision making

Supervisor: Lebow, N. (Supervisor) & Dylan, H. (Supervisor)

Understanding Prejudice: Stigma, Self-Esteem and the Dynamics of Antisemitism & Islamophobia 

Supervisor: Lebow, N. (Supervisor) & Chaudhuri, R. (Supervisor)

Underlying dynamics of regional (dis-)integration in post-Soviet Central Asia

Supervisor: Kuhrt, N. C. (Supervisor) & Pacheco Pardo, R. (Supervisor)

Two Sides of the Same COIN? Compare and Contrast British Political Warfare in Southern Arabia from 1959 to 1977

Supervisor: Goodman, M. (Supervisor) & Easter, D. (Supervisor)

Trust and the Politics of Security Risk Management: The European Union’s Engagement of China in Africa

Supervisor: Patalano, A. (Supervisor) & Gower, J. (Supervisor)

Transnational Legal Feminism – Beyond Western Hegemonies in Crossborder Feminist Research and Practice in International Law

Supervisor: Zumbansen, P. (Supervisor) & Friedman, R. (Supervisor)

TO WHAT DEGREE DID THE RAF MAINTAIN V-FORCE OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN THE 1960s?

Supervisor: Stone, J. G. (Supervisor) & Hobbs, C. L. (Supervisor)

Too Baroque to Fix: The US Army's Future Combat Systems

Supervisor: Stone, J. G. (Supervisor) & Leenders, R. (Supervisor)

Three Generations of Leftist Political Parties in Iran: A History of Repression, Foreign Imperialism, and Khomeinist Manipulation

Supervisor: Kerr, M. (Supervisor)

The “lesser evil”: the evolution of Jabhat al-Nusra’s governance strategy in Syria

Supervisor: Maher, S. (Supervisor) & Neumann, P. (Supervisor)

The “Belt and Road Initiative” and China’s grand strategy making: how China transforms itself into the "Center of Production and Trade" and a "Norm-Maker"

Supervisor: Kuhrt, N. (Supervisor) & Bew, J. (Supervisor)

The Westminster Model Navy: Defining the Royal Navy, 1660-1749

Supervisor: James, A. M. (Supervisor) & Lambert, A. D. (Supervisor)

The Utility of Unmanned Combat Air Systems Gaining Control of the Air by 2040

Supervisor: Goulter, C. J. M. (Supervisor) & Sabin, P. A. G. (Supervisor)

The Use and Utility of Ultimata

Supervisor: Deyermond, R. (Supervisor) & Honig, J. (Supervisor)

The United States, Britain and Japan in the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1967-1974: the competing claims of the Cold War and oil

Supervisor: Kandiah, M. (Supervisor) & Patalano, A. (Supervisor)

The Transition from the Military to Civilian Life: Becoming a Private Security Contractor after Military Service for US and UK Service leavers

Supervisor: Kinsey, C. P. (Supervisor) & Dandeker, C. (Supervisor)

The terrorist image: a mixed-methods exploration of Islamic State photo-propaganda

Supervisor: Neumann, P. (Supervisor) & Bolt, N. (Supervisor)

The Taliban’s emirate: negotiations, norms and state-building

Supervisor: Lieven, A. (Supervisor) & Bew, J. (Supervisor)

The Stem from which Flowers Bloom: Motivations and Constraints shaping the Reforger Exercises, 1969-1992

Supervisor: Ladwig III, W. (Supervisor)

The Soviet Security Service and its Treatment of Novelists During the 1930s

Supervisor: Goodman, M. (Supervisor)

The socio-political factor in great power politics: analysis of the Weimar Republic and post-Soviet Russia's political discourse towards the Baltic states

Supervisor: Kuhrt, N. (Supervisor) & Greene, S. (Supervisor)

The Sino-Indian relationship in a regional context: the ‘China factor’ in India’s ‘Look East’ policy

Supervisor: Patalano, A. (Supervisor)

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Online, part-time Digital Economies MSc

Prepare for a digital future. Learn from world-leading academics at the forefront of research into digital innovation and the key drivers of change in today’s global economy.

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* Depending on your country of residence, you may also have to pay Goods and Services Tax (GST) in addition to your tuition fees. You can find further information on the King's Goods and Services tax page .

Course overview

This Digital Economies MSc is a multidisciplinary programme that examines how digital technology is shaping contemporary work, production, exchange, and collaboration.

You'll critically explore these aspects and address the big questions we face as a society. With your cohort, you’ll gain a holistic perspective of how digital technologies are transforming labour, markets, platforms, and institutions. You’ll also develop a comprehensive understanding of the tools we can harness to tackle the challenges presented by this transformation.

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Our broad-ranging expertise is applied and critical, spanning political, entrepreneurial, and creative.

What you'll study

This Digital Economies MSc is designed to give you a solid understanding of how digital technologies are economically unique, how they transform businesses and economies, and how they impact broader contemporary society. You’ll learn about a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the analysis of digital economies, and discover how this knowledge can help us understand the world around us. This transformation impacts the way we work, transact, and collaborate with each other. 

The focus of the course is on how to apply complex, multi-faceted theory to contemporary policy debates. The teaching draws on trending news, established and emerging theory, the latest research and best practice case studies. You’ll consider how digital innovation can increase revenue, cut costs, or improve the sharing and use of knowledge in organisations. You’ll also consider how digital technologies can help solve some of society’s greatest challenges. This could include:

• reducing energy consumption 
• pollution and waste in industrial production 
• providing affordable transport and healthcare 
• increasing access to essential services or information 

How you'll learn

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Module overview

This online Digital Economies MSc course is comprised of seven modules, two 30-credit required modules, one 60-credit Research Dissertation, and four 15-credit optional modules (180 credits in total). The optional modules have been specifically designed to be studied in a non-linear order, with the order in which you’ll study the modules depending on when you begin the course.

All required modules on the course are compulsory and you must pass all your chosen modules to complete the award.

Required modules

You must take the following three required modules (120 credits):

Macro Perspectives on the Digital Economy

In this module, you’ll critically examine the impact of the digital economy on contemporary society. You’ll focus on the dominance of tech companies and the pervasive influence of digital technologies. You’ll develop the acumen to analyse pressing issues such as the concentration of power among major platforms and debates about breaking up tech giants.

You’ll also explore the widespread adoption of the winner-takes-all model, the valuation of data, and the emergence of new power inequalities. Through this multi-faceted perspective, you’ll be equipped with the conceptual tools to understand and articulate the systematic connections within the digital economy.

Micro Perspectives on the Digital Economy

This module introduces the concept of the digital economy, exploring the impact of digital products, processes, and services on companies, communities, and society. You'll develop a fundamental understanding of digital concepts, theories such as Commons-Based Peer Production and Transaction Cost Theory, and ethical considerations in digital creation.

We’ll equip you with the knowledge to develop and implement digital initiatives, critically analyse existing innovation strategies, and address the ethical concerns surrounding digital transformation. 

Research Dissertation

Taking inspiration from our active, world-leading researchers, the Research Dissertation offers an exciting opportunity to carry out an in-depth investigation into a topic that interests you within the field of digital economies. You’ll then write up a 12,000-word dissertation outlining your findings.

Examples of recent dissertations by our on-campus students include the impact of big tech in industry and the impact digital technology can have on identity. 

Optional modules

You’re also required to choose four modules (60 credits) from the following optional modules: 

AI and Society

Chatbots, virtual and voice assistants, face recognition, online advertising, product recommendations, and smartphone apps. These are just some of the everyday examples of Artificial intelligence (AI) now commonplace in society.

This module considers the possibilities, pros, cons, and concerns of AI for individuals, society, and its regulators. Developing in-depth knowledge of AI and the latest developments in the field, you’ll evaluate a broad range of applications, issues, and current debates. 

Digital Entrepreneurship

Digital networks have enormous potential to foster powerful relationships as part of entrepreneurial activity. Through the lens of digitally mediated social interaction, social capital, mutual trust and affordance theory, we’ll deep-dive into the intricacies of these relationships. You’ll develop a profound understanding of how digital networks connect an ecosystem of like-minded individuals and target audiences, fostering meaningful interactions.

Digital Innovation

What is digital innovation? How can individuals, businesses and other organisations negotiate and succeed within a digital economy? In this module, you’ll look at how digital technology is advancing and its impact on various industries and organisational types.

This could include the third sector, government and the private sector. You’ll explore theories of innovation, including open innovation, closed innovation and disruption, as well as the ethics you must consider. You’ll then learn how to develop, implement, and evaluate digital innovation initiatives.  

Digital Marketing

Digital technologies have transformed marketing practices in recent years. This has facilitated search engine optimisation, social media marketing, marketing automation, targeted advertising, and more. This module covers the broad range of digital marketing tools available to marketers. It demonstrates through established case studies and current campaigns how these can be used to the greatest effect.

You’ll explore the theoretical and practical aspects of digital media and digital data in marketing practice. This will give you a firm understanding of the computational processes behind digital marketing techniques. You’ll also learn about related economic, social, political, and ethical issues. 

Digital Industries and Internet Culture

Digitalisation is shaping the way we share information, express ourselves creatively, and do business. Together, we’ll explore how creativity, culture and digital industries intersect through several of its key areas: visual and performing arts, computer games, and digital journalism.

You’ll be challenged to analyse the role of digital audiences, the nature of ‘free labour’, and the redefinition of heritage, memory and identity. 

Meet the Programme Director

Dr Nick Srnicek

A Canadian writer and academic, Nick is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy and the author of Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016). His research focuses on the digital economy, monopolisation, AI, and anti-work politics.

He’s a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is regularly invited to give public talks around the world. He’s spoken at Glastonbury, Tate Britain, and Centre Pompidou. He’s also been quoted in a variety of media including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and Libération. 

How you’re assessed 

Assessments are crafted to evaluate your knowledge, understanding, and critical awareness of course topics. They also assess your ability to analyse and apply specialist knowledge to practical situations. These assessment methods may vary between modules. They’re likely to include one or more of the following:

Entry requirements

Standard requirements.

A 2:1 honours degree (or above) in a social science, computer science/informatics or humanities subject. 

Non-standard entry requirements

If you have a lower degree classification, or a degree in an unrelated subject, your application may still be considered. You’ll need to demonstrate significant relevant work experience, or offer a related graduate qualification (such as a master’s or PgDip). 

Non-standard applications will need to be supported by degree certificates or transcripts (where relevant). You’ll also need to provide a CV, reference letter and a 500-word written statement addressing the following questions: "In your view, what are the key issues in the domain of digital culture and society? How will your professional career or academic trajectory benefit from studying them?"   . 

English language requirements

English language band: B 

To study at King's, it is essential that you can communicate in English effectively in an academic environment. You are usually required to provide certification of your competence in English before starting your studies.

Nationals of majority English speaking countries ( as defined by the UKVI ) who have permanently resided in this country are not usually required to complete an additional English language test. This is also the case for applicants who have successfully completed:

• An undergraduate degree (at least three years duration) within five years of the course start date. 
• A postgraduate taught degree (at least one year) within five years of the course start date. 
• A PhD in a majority English-speaking country (as defined by the UKVI) within five years of the course start date. 

For information on our English language requirements and whether you need to complete an English language test, please see our English Language requirements page.

Written statement and supporting information

Depending on your previous qualifications, you may need to submit a written statement and a reference letter as part of your application.

You’ll need to submit a copy (or copies) of your official academic transcript(s), showing the subjects studied and marks obtained. If you have already completed your degree, copies of your official degree certificate will also be required. Applicants with academic documents issued in a language other than English, will need to submit both the original and official translation of their documents.

You’ll need to submit your CV as part of your application to highlight your experience.

Not sure if you meet the requirements, or if the course is right for you? Speak to our team to get tailored support: 

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Our MSc in Digital Economies equips you with knowledge and skills in:   

• digital business models 
• ecosystem strategies 
• social media management 
• CRM management
• digital advertising 
• market research 
• platform scaling and growth analysis

There is a growing demand for digital transformation managers who can lead and coordinate digital transformation initiatives within an organisation. As a result, our master’s course offers excellent preparation for such generalist, all-round roles.

This could include working for a wide range of private, public and third sector organisations. It could involve working in industries as diverse as health, transportation, services, or retail, and in digital businesses, start-ups, and creative companies. Alternatively, you may choose to specialise in areas such as digital marketing, analytics, or project management. 

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Three minute thesis, what is the three minute thesis.

Could you explain your doctoral research to a lay audience in just three minutes?

Our Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges doctoral candidates to present the complexities of their research in a clear, concise and accessible way to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes. It celebrates the exciting research conducted by doctoral candidates across King's College London and gives them the opportunity to develop their academic, presentation, and research communication skills.

The rules are simple:

• explain your research to a non-specialist audience in three minutes
• you can only use one single static PowerPoint slide
• no props, sound, moving images, poems, raps, songs or mimes are allowed

Each year, the winner of the King's 3MT competition progresses through to the national competition, where they will be considered for a spot at the Vitae Three Minute Thesis UK finals.

More details about the 2025 King's 3MT Competition will be announced later this year.

Three Minute Thesis 2024

We're delighted to announce the winners of this year's King's 3MT Competition:

• Winner: Beth Gallimore , I nstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, 'Voices of Barbados: Lived Experiences of Mental Health Stigma and Help-Seeking among Young People'.
• Runner Up: Obianuju Nzelu , Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine , 'Do uterine fibroids increase the risk of blood clots?'
• People’s Choice Award: Syed Alhafiz bin Syed Hashim , Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, ' Cracking the Code of Breast Cancer: Empowering Our Immune Response to Reveal the Hidden Hideouts.'

Beth Gallimore will go onto represent the university at the national UK 3MT competition later in the year.

Three Minute Thesis 2023

• Winner and UK 3MT Semi-Finalist: Sean Maroney , Faculty of Arts & Humanities, 'Empathy and Understanding Our Own Emotions'
• Runner-Up: Hogan Wai , Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, 'The War for Bacterial Supremacy in Paediatric Eczema'
• People's Choice Award: Hannah Deasy , Faculty of Arts & Humanities, 'The Boy Chorister through his Voice'

Sean represented the university at the national 3MT competition and was selected as one of the twelve UK national semi-finalists.

You can watch all of our 2023 3MT finalists entries below.

Three Minute Thesis 2022

Winner and UK 3MT Finalist: Julia Fajardo-Sanchez , Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, 'Seeing the Whole Picture.'

Runner-up: Alex Martin , Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, 'The role of the father in reducing the risk of depression within families.'

Julia represented the university at the national 3MT competition and was selected as one of the six UK national finalists.

Read our blog post, King’s 3MT Grand Final 2022 , to learn more about the 2022 finalists and their advice for future participants. You can also watch the finalists presentations from this year and previous years below.

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2122 King’s Outstanding Thesis Prize (Round 1)

Congratulations to the first round of winners of the 2122 King’s Outstanding Thesis Prize!

A limited number of awards are given across the year to celebrate truly outstanding research and theses completed by King’s doctoral students. The prizes are nominated by the external examiners and are judged by a panel consisting of the College’s Director of Research Talent and the Chair of the Research Degrees Examinations Board.  

Take a look at some reflections from the 2122 winners:

Dr Rana Alkattan, Dental Materials for Operative and Restorative Dentistry

Dr Olakunle Oginni, Behavioural Genetics

I really enjoyed learning about twin models and applying this knowledge to understand the health disparities among lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals compared to those who are heterosexual. I am very grateful to my supervisors – Prof. Frühling Rijsdijk (who was the overall winner of the 2020/21 Supervisory Excellence Award ) and Dr. Patrick Jern (of the Abo Akademi University, Finland); the SGDP community, my family and friends, and the UK Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. Since completing my PhD, I have continued work as a lecturer and honorary consultant psychiatrist at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria; and I am a part-time postdoctoral research associate at Prof. Thalia Eley’s EDIT Lab at the SGDP Centre.

Dr Julia Burrill, Molecular Biology

I’m very grateful to receive this award and must, of course, thank my supervisors, Dr. Nunzianda Frascione and Dr. Barbara Daniel. Doing a PhD can be a real roller coaster and I’m so glad the rest of the gang in King’s Forensics was along for the ride. For those of you en route to submission, keep it up! Everyone thinks of chucking it in at some point, but it helped me to keep reminding myself of why I was passionate about the work in the first place. And remember to take breaks, whether it is going for a run or to the pub. My passion for the topic has now led me back to the U.S. to do a postdoc in Forensic Science Communication in the Courtroom at Stony Brook University, but I will always remember my time in London and at King’s with great fondness.

Dr Giles Masters, Musicology

It was a lovely surprise to be awarded this prize! I am, of course, very delighted and honoured. There are so many people I could thank, but I’ll just mention two. First, I’m very grateful to everyone at the Music Department at KCL – a truly vibrant community of intellectual and artistic endeavour – and especially my dedicated and brilliant supervisor Heather Wiebe. Second, I’d like to express my love and appreciation for my wonderful friend Clara Benjamin, who died last year.

Dr Laura Knopfel, Law

It is an honour to win this outstanding thesis prize in law for a socio-legal project. I thus read the award as an appreciation and encouragement for interdisciplinary and empirical research in legal scholarship. My thanks go to my supervisors Prof. Peer Zumbansen and Prof. Davina Cooper as well as the Law Department, in particular Dr. Eva Pils, the department’s former Director of Doctoral Studies, who gave me the freedom and possibility to pursue my research and supported me throughout the PhD journey at KCL.

Dr Harriet Cook, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Dr Sophie Carruthers, Psychology

Dr Ana Caetano, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Dr Sarah McAllister, Health Services Research

Full list of winners from the first round of the 2122 King’s Outstanding Thesis Prize:

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Here we explain how to access copies of research theses that UCL Library Services holds. There is also an increasing number of open access thesis repositories available online.

Theses held in UCL Library

Open access repositories containing the full text of selected research theses.

• Indexes of completed theses

Obtaining copies of research theses

• Open Access for Thesis: how to deposit

University of London theses

The Library holds a copy of most research degree theses completed by students registered at UCL and awarded by the UoL, including many from students at Schools and Institutes prior to merger with UCL. Theses are listed by author on the Library catalogue, Explore : they are shelved in our off-campus Store and may be retrieved for consultation (24-hour notice required) by completing the store request form or via the request link on Explore. Theses are not available for loan, either to individuals or via interlibrary loan.

Some UoL research degree theses submitted by UCL students in the areas of classical, Germanic, Latin American studies; history and law are not held: check the UoL School of Advanced Study catalogue for availability.

UCL started to award its own degrees to students registering from 2007/2008. Print copies of research theses are catalogued by author in Explore and shelved in Store; electronic versions are in many cases available on open access in UCL Discovery .

If you wish to access a thesis recorded in UCL Discovery for which the full text is subject to an access restriction or not present, it is best to contact the author directly to request a copy privately.  If this is not possible, please contact the UCL Open Access Team .

If a thesis is not available via UCL Discovery or EThOS (see below) then it might be possible to obtain a copy from our interlibrary loan service via your home university interlibrary loan department. Please contact your university library and ask them to enquire about this service with UCL's Interlibrary Loan service; e-mail [email protected] for more information.

The Library does not normally hold print copies of any theses in the following categories:

• MA, MSc, MRes, LLM theses.
• Diploma theses.
• Undergraduate dissertations.
• Theses submitted at other universities or colleges.

Further information is available in the Support for dissertations and research projects LibGuide .

A growing number of open access thesis repositories is becoming available including:

• ProQuest , holds many full text theses. You can search for dissertations and theses there.
• UCL Discovery , UCL's open access research repository, includes theses alongside other UCL publications. You can search for theses, or browse a list.
• EThOS , a database run by the British Library that aims to record all UK doctoral theses, with links to access an electronic version of the full text where available. The digitisation of theses that only exist in print form can often be requested, depending on the awarding institution and for a fee: UCL supports this process for UCL-held theses.
• The DART-Europe E-theses Portal , holds details of open access electronic theses stored in repositories across Europe.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations , includes links to a number of international search tools and portals.

Video - Using PhD theses in research: EThOS 

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Indexes of completed theses (access available to members of UCL only)

Proquest dissertations & theses global (pqdt global).

PQDT Global contains over a million full-text dissertations and theses from 1861 onwards that are available for download in PDF format. The collection includes PQDT UK and Ireland content.

Many UK universities now decline to lend research theses. You may visit the awarding university or, increasingly, obtain an electronic version either from the university itself or from EThOS (see above).

Theses awarded by universities worldwide may be requested via UCL Library Services Interlending and Document Supply service . The normal charge for this service applies. Please note that theses are never available for loan: they must be consulted on Library premises only.

Open access for theses: how to deposit

Candidates for UCL research degrees are required to deposit an electronic copy of their final thesis in UCL's Research Publications Service (RPS), to be made open access in UCL's institutional repository, UCL Discovery . Theses are amongst the most highly-downloaded items in UCL Discovery . Making your thesis open access will mean that it is accessible worldwide, to anyone who wants to read it.

It is also possible, but not mandatory, to submit a print copy of your thesis to the Library for storage and preservation if you wish. We recommend submitting the print copy in cases where the electronic copy cannot be made openly available online in UCL Discovery, but you wish the print copy to be accessible to members of the Library.

Please refer to our guidance on how to deposit  for further information on the submission procedures.

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Online Thesis and Dissertation Formatting Workshop: Regular Session

June 3, 2024 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, about this event.

This online workshop covers the submission process for format review and demonstrates how to use the automated templates to format MSU theses and dissertations to the requirements set forth in the Standards for Preparing Theses and Dissertations: 8th edition. These templates were designed to help an author organize and format their document with minimal effort so that their focus can be on the content of their document. Those who have already started writing or have already defended are welcome to bring their current documents (either on flash drive or email attachment) to start the process of placing their content into the template.

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