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This guide brings together information about Open Access Resources and Open Educational Resources. It aims to make Open Access resources easier to find and use for study, teaching and research.
Finding open Theses and Dissertations
University of edinburgh and uk theses.
Edinburgh Research Archive - Full text electronic copies of most University of Edinburgh PhD theses can be found online in the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). The collection comprises 23,500 items and includes MD theses from the 1700s through to PhDs recently awarded in 2020.
EThoS: e-theses online service - This service from the British Library aims to provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions, and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by researchers.
Google Scholar Search
If you know the details of the thesis you wish to consult then an effective way to find the full text is via Google Scholar. Search for the full title in quotes, followed by the author last name, and/or date if known.
International theses
DART-Europe is a searchable database of electronic research theses held in European repositories. It covers around 586 Universities in 29 European countries.
EBSCO Open Dissertations is a free database with records for more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from more than 320 universities around the world.
Global ETD Search from the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) contains around 6 million records, the majority of which are open, but some may not be publicly available.
Open Access Theses & Dissertations currently indexes around 5 million open access theses and dissertations from 1100 institutions worldwide.
Making your thesis open access
Theses and dissertations from the University of Edinburgh are published online in the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). In 2020, UoE theses were downloaded 829,804 times from ERA (source IRUS-UK download report). The University has an expectation that a PhD thesis is a document available for public consultation. As such, unless a legitimate reason for restricting access to the thesis exists, all PhD theses will be made publicly available on the internet. Masters dissertations are not routinely made available online, but exceptional dissertations can be made open access.
PhD and other doctoral theses
Masters dissertations.
Only Masters Dissertations from the School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences and the School of Geosciences are routinely deposited in the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). If you are from a different School you can make your master dissertation open access by depositing in ERA. You can do this by logging in with your EASE credentials, then selecting your Schools Thesis & Dissertation Collection and follow the prompts for submitting a new item to the collection.
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PhD in Data Science
Information about the PhD in Data Science.
Progression to the PhD in Data Science
Progression from the first year MSc by Research to your PhD is contingent on making satisfactory academic progress during the first year. In general, if you have a mark of 65% or above on both your coursework and dissertation, we will consider this evidence of satisfactory progress. If your marks are below this, you may still be allowed to progress, but only if we can be otherwise satisfied that you have the ability to successfully complete a PhD. These decisions will be taken by the CDT in Data Science Executive Committee, most likely towards the end of August.
Data Science Executive Committee
In addition to the successful completion of the MSc by Research programme (Year 1), progression to the PhD in Data Science is contingent on the approval of an outline PhD project proposal proposal within the first few months of Year 2. Guidelines and deadline dates can be found here:
Preparing & submitting your outline PhD project proposal
Actions to take once your outline PhD project proposal has been approved
PhD Guidelines & Milestones
After the approval of their PhD projects, CDT in Data Science students are governed by the same procedures as any other PhD student, as described in the Informatics Graduate School (IGS) webpages, and should ensure they meet the guidelines as outlined in the Monitoring links below:
- Information for Informatics PhD students
- PhD yearly timelines
- Formal student monitoring
- Researcher's handbook
- Archived PhD theses
- Submitting your thesis
- Finally, when you leave...
It is your responsibility to ensure you meet the requirements and milestones for PhD students and should discuss any questions you have with your supervisor(s).
Pastoral Care: Your supervisors, and/or your 3rd panel member, can also provide you with pastoral support should you need it at any point during your research. In addition the deputy director of the CDT has the primary role of representing student interests and providing a one-to-one point of contact for any CDT student who has any issue they wish to talk about. You also have access to any member of staff in the Graduate School, in particular the Head of Student Services, the Deputy Head of Graduate School and CDT Administrator.
Student Counselling: https://www.ed.ac.uk/student-counselling
Resolving Problems: http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/infweb/student-services/igs/phd/student-support/resolving-problems
School of Social and Political Science
Useful information for phd.
There is a lot of information in this section to support you through your PhD years. We recommend familiarising yourself with this so you know it's here when or if you need it in the future.
Regulations of Study
Guidance on thesis submission and examination. Subject Area Handbooks library. Information on Turnitin and Plagiarism.
Student Engagement
Expectations of student attendance and engagement with their studies. Applying for an extension or interruption of study, or Leave of Absence. Vacation leave allowance, and parental leave policy.
Supervision
Contact details for Postgraduate Advisors. A guide to working with your supervisors and the Code of Practice. Information on the Annual Progression Review process.
Information on research support fund options. Guidance for School/College/University scholarship students on funded Sick Leave, Parental Leave, and Interruption of Study.
Scholarship Opportunities
Find information about funding opportunities available for postgraduate study in the School of Social and Political Science. Current students can apply for ESRC, School of SPS PhD Scholarship, and Alice Brown PhD Scholarship. See their webpages for details.
Research Ethics
Guidance and process on submitting ethical reviews for approval prior to research.
Fieldwork and Travel
Full guidance on the fieldwork application process including ethics and risk assessments, insurance, and Leave of Absence requirements. Guidance on risk assessment and insurance for non-research/fieldwork travel outside of Edinburgh.
Research Training Centre
Information on training opportunities in key research method initiatives Q-Step / AQMEN / NCRM.
Choosing Courses
Guidance on how to choose courses, course change requests, auditing, and withdrawing.
Research Courses
Information on core skills courses for postgraduate research students.
Student Support
Who to contact for support during your study.
Facilities and Resources
Information on the SPS PhD Laptop Loan Scheme, University Laptop Loan Scheme, PhD study space, and PhD locker space.
Request/Edit a Student Profile
How to add your PhD student profile to the School's website.
Tutoring Vacancies and Information
Information on part-time teaching opportunities and tutor calls for research students.
Information on the awarding process for PhD degree programmes.
Useful FAQs
Answers to common questions on postgraduate research on-programme administration, fees, scholarship opportunities, and COVID-19 impact.
Suggesting Improvements
Please follow this process for suggesting improvements to School or University policy or procedure.
Academics Beyond Borders
The Academics Beyond Borders scheme provides remote academic support for PhD students enrolled in universities affected by conflicts and/or repression.
Edinburgh Research Archive
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A panexperientialist ontology , the beast with two backs: romantic bodily overlap in peripersonal space , inter-species halys: ethical considerations of well-being measurement across multiple species , [c-theory] , extesionalism and veridicalism , civilian noncombatant’s duty to aid a dying enemy combatant , beyond the completeness of physics: a preliminary groundwork for a dispositional emergentism , is the experience of agency necessarily retrospective a predictive approach , critique of just war theory: revision of traditional dichotomy & its implications for justified violence , understanding nietzsche’s perspectivism and reconciling it with perspectival realism , ecumenical cognitivism, ecumenical expressivism and moral disagreement , mechanistic philosophy and the use of deep neural networks in neuroscience , common notion and essence of things: the intense relationship between knowledge of the last two kinds , generics revisited: a simple theory of types , violence and civil disobedience , poetry and nature in kant’s aesthetics: on why poetry is the highest of all the arts , is euthanasia of the infant born at 22⁺⁰-23⁺⁶ weeks’ gestation (without congenital anomalies) morally permissible within the united kingdom , against epistemic blame scepticism , paradox of temporal consciousness , aesthetic disinterestedness .
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Edinburgh based PhD projects
Investigating ubiquitin signalling in the radiotherapy response of glioblastoma
Using a zebrafish tumour initiation model, single cell transcriptomics and in vivo live imaging to dissect mechanisms driving the development of tumour promoting neutrophils from the inception of cancer, long-term care use among individuals diagnosed with cancer: a scottish population level linked data study.
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Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA) Access Information: Freely available. Description: Full-text digital institutional repository of research published by the members of the University of Edinburgh. Includes theses and dissertations, book chapters, working papers, technical reports, journal pre-prints and peer-reviewed journal reprints.
Submitting your thesis for assessment Covid-19 arrangements. All PGRs are required to submit their thesis electronically both for assessment and for final submission of thesis. Further advice for postgraduate research students on issues related to Covid-19 are available on the University's dedicated webpage. Coronavirus (Covid-19) Submission advice
Information on finding and submitting theses. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336, VAT Registration Number GB 592 9507 00, and is acknowledged by the UK authorities as a "Recognised body" which has been granted degree awarding powers.
Impacts of childhood psychological maltreatment on adult mental health. Xiao, Zhuoni (The University of Edinburgh, 2023-10-11) Previous studies have shown the negative impacts of child abuse on mental health in later life. Compared to physical and sexual abuse, psychological maltreatment has received less attention.
Holdings include full-text digital doctoral theses, masters dissertations, project reports, briefing papers and out-of-print materials. ... Ng, Thomas (The University of Edinburgh, 2024-03-29) In contrast to humans, zebrafish can replace neurons that are lost to injury with new ones, which may contribute to structural and functional recovery ...
Quantitative finance informed machine learning . Sabate Vidales, Marc (The University of Edinburgh, 2023-10-13) This PhD thesis consists of two parts. In the first part, we develop and study deep learning-based methods for approximating high-dimensional parabolic (path-dependent) linear PDEs parametrised by the model parameters.
Making your thesis open access. Theses and dissertations from the University of Edinburgh are published online in the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). In 2020, UoE theses were downloaded 829,804 times from ERA (source IRUS-UK download report). The University has an expectation that a PhD thesis is a document available for public consultation.
Doctoral and MPhil theses are held in the Centre for Research Collections in the University Library. Most can be found by searching DiscoverEd and are now usually available online. PPLS Masters dissertations were submitted electronically from 2006 onwards and are held online in the Edinburgh Reseseach Archive (ERA). Psychology Masters dissertations from 1998 to 2004 are held in the PPLS library.
Archived PhD theses; Submitting your thesis; ... The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336, VAT Registration Number GB 592 9507 00, and is acknowledged by the UK authorities as a ...
Developmental pathways of suicidality and self-harm among youth . Zhu, Xinxin (The University of Edinburgh, 2024-03-18) Suicidality and self-harm among youth are significant public health concerns. This thesis seeks to elucidate the developmental pathways and predictors underpinning these issues, with a particular emphasis on the roles of ...
Body. Thesis submission and examination is managed by the College Postgraduate Office. Please review the process in the Thesis submission guide.. Please see the Thesis Submission Workflow for an overview of the entire process.. To help you prepare for your viva, please see the following IAD guidance.. In SPS, PhD students have a choice of viva methods.
Guidance on thesis submission and examination. Subject Area Handbooks library. ... Information on the SPS PhD Laptop Loan Scheme, University Laptop Loan Scheme, PhD study space, and PhD locker space. Request/Edit a Student Profile. ... The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336 ...
How to submit the final version of your PhD thesis | The University of Edinburgh. Please note there should be no final hard-bound Thesis submitted. Your Thesis must contain an Abstract and Lay Summary on final submission. If these additional documents are not within your main thesis please also upload them at the same time. An Access to Thesis ...
Rébeillé-Borgella, Elisabeth (The University of Edinburgh, 2023-09-19) This thesis is a study of the life and careers of Esmé Stuart d'Aubigny, First Duke of Lennox, from his birth in the early 1540s to his death in May 1583, providing discussion of his legacy through his descendants.
PhD and MPhil students can make the Board of Examiners aware of the impact the pandemic has had on their research when they submit their thesis. This statement should not be included within the thesis, but provided as a separate document of no more than a single page at the point of thesis submission, via the online submission system.
PhD projects and studentships are defined pieces of research that an organisation wishes to explore. A research council may have provided funding for the project to ensure its successful outcome, although not all defined PhD projects have funding associated with them. ... The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland ...
Development and application of pulse echo techniques to the study of charge density waves and superconductivity in pressurized U₆Fe . Leong, Guy Hector (The University of Edinburgh, 2024-03-18) Ultrasound measurement techniques have proven useful as a directional probe that is sensitive to both the atomic and electronic structure of materials.
The first full-time year of the PhD degree is probationary and progress to year two is subject to satisfactory progress and passing the first-year progression board. All research degrees culminate in the submission of a thesis. The PhD thesis should be up to 100,000 words. You may start your studies with us either on the 1st October or the 1st ...
The PhD is a substantial piece of independent research which makes a contribution to the state of existing knowledge in the field. The PhD programme is designed to take three years full-time or six years part-time. The programme is examined by submission of a thesis of up to 100,000 words and by oral examination. Application
Fumagalli, Laura (The University of Edinburgh, 2018) This dissertation will explore some of the reasons why poetry is ranked as the highest of all the arts in Kant's aesthetics and what is the relation between nature and poetry. The central thesis is that poetry is the ... Is euthanasia of the infant born at 22⁺⁰-23⁺⁶ weeks ...
Edinburgh Law School can offer expert supervision across an exceptional range of subject areas for PhD study. A PhD at Edinburgh Law School involves undertaking independent research, culminating in the submission of a thesis of up to 100,000 words, which should be an original piece of work that makes a significant contribution to knowledge in the field of study and contains material worthy of ...
Be inspired by the range of PhD research in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Over the course of your PhD, you'll be expected to complete an original body of work under the expert guidance of your supervisors leading to a dissertation of usually between 80,000 and 100,000 words. You will be awarded your doctorate if your ...
thesis. * Signatures may be electronic, for example when sent from a University email address. 1.3 Published Papers . Where published papers are to be included as a thesis chapter these must include an introduction and conclusion and be incorporated into the thesis at the appropriate point*. It is in the interests of
Edinburgh based PhD projects. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336, VAT Registration Number GB 592 9507 00, and is acknowledged by the UK authorities as a "Recognised body" which has been granted degree awarding powers.