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Qub phd theses.

The McClay Library holds copies of all Queen's University PhD theses . 

A number of recent QUB PhD theses can be accessed online via the Queen's Research Portal . Please note that not all theses include the full-text (e.g. where an embargo has been applied).

Older QUB theses are held by the library in hardcopy format, and they are kept in the store. You can search for hardcopy theses in Library Search: search for a topic, then filter your search results by Resource Type: Dissertations and by Availability: Held by library . You can recognise theses by their distinctive shelfmark, which begins with T/ q e.g. T/q 1999.S4. 

If you would like to consult a hardcopy thesis, you can request that library staff fetch it from the store. Use the Request button in Library Search (you need to be signed in to Library Search). Theses may not be borrowed, but can be read in the library.

Please note: the Library does not collect QUB undergraduate and masters dissertations. Please contact the relevant School if you are trying to locate one.

Obtaining theses from other universities

Uk and ireland.

Universities listed here have agreed to make their theses freely available through EThOS. If you need a thesis from a UK or Ireland university which is not participating in the scheme, please request it through the Inter-Library Loans service.

Please note: the EThOS service is currently unavailable due to a cyber attack.

Outside UK/Ireland

The websites listed on this page provide free online access to theses. It is only possible to obtain theses which must be paid for in exceptional circumstances: please consult your Subject Librarian .

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Collection of full-text dissertations and PhD theses from around the world, including from UK and Irish universities

EThOS EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) replaced the British Library Thesis Service in 2009. Theses from participating universities are digitised on demand, after which they are available for free download.

DART-Europe E-theses Portal Access to the full-text of a large and growing number of theses from over 520 universities in 27 European countries.

DiVA DiVA portal is a finding tool and an institutional repository for theses written at Swedish universities and colleges.

Netherlands Research Portal Portal for theses and other research outputs from the Netherlands.

theses.fr Aims to provide an entry point to: • all ongoing doctoral theses in France • all awarded theses in France, available in any format (print, digital, commercially published, etc.) • individuals and institutions in connection with these theses.

International

North America

PQDT Open With PQDT Open, you can read the full text of US open-access dissertations and theses free of charge.

Theses Canada portal Theses Canada provides an index of all theses produced at Canadian universities and free PDFs of theses produced since 1998.

Trove Trove documents Australia’s research effort, bringing together articles, books, theses and data sets. Currently Trove includes the details of more than 300,000 theses submitted in, or relating to, Australia. Search tips for finding theses via Trove

South Africa

National ETD Portal Full-text access to South African theses and dissertations.

NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations.

OATD (Open Access Theses and Dissertations) An international database giving free access to over 2 million theses and dissertations.

EBSCO Open Dissertations This database gives free access to the full text of open access dissertations and theses.

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(in)security and storytelling in sri lanka: negotiating safe spaces to remember, reenact and reconcile violence.

Supervisor: Magowan, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

(Mis)understanding Afghanistan: an ethnographic examination of 'human elements' affecting the nexus between understanding and strategy in population-centric conflict

Supervisor: Donnan, H. (Supervisor) & Sousa, P. (Supervisor)

5-fluorouracil : mechanisms of action (or resistance) in p53-proficient and -deficient colorectal cancer

Supervisor: Longley, D. (Supervisor) & McDade, S. (Supervisor)

A BAME woman's right to rehabilitation: the case study of contemporary England & Wales

Supervisor: Dowds, E. (Supervisor) & Brown, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › JD (Juris Doctor)

Ab initio modelling of photoinduced electron dynamics in nanostructures

Supervisor: Gruening, M. (Supervisor) & Dundas, D. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide, QUB-1813, from the defensive skin secretion of the Chinese Large Odorous Frog, Rana (Odorrana) livida

Supervisor: Wang, L. (Supervisor), Wu, Y. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor) & Zhou, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Masters Thesis › Master of Philosophy

A bioactive peptide, QUB-2048, from the defensive skin secretion of Phyllomedusa tomopterna

Supervisor: Wu, Y. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Zhou, M. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the defensive skin secretion of Odorrana versabilis

Supervisor: Shaw, C. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Ma, C. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the frog skin secretion of Pelophylax nigromaculatus GAPKGCWTKSYPPKPCS-NH2

Supervisor: Shaw, C. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Xi, X. (Supervisor) & Ma, C. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the skin of the Chinese Torrent Frog, Amolops wuyiensis

Supervisor: Shaw, C. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor), Xi, X. (Supervisor) & Ma, C. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the skin secretion of the bamboo leaf odorous frog, Odorrana versabilis

Supervisor: Chen, T. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor), Xi, X. (Supervisor) & Zhou, M. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the skin secretion of the Chinese bamboo odorous frog, Odorrana versabilis

Supervisor: Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor), Shaw, C. (Supervisor) & Chen, T. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the skin secretion of the Chinese Torrent Frog, Amolops wuyiensis

Supervisor: Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Ma, C. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide from the skin secretion of the Red-eyed Leaf Frog, Agalychnis callidryas

Supervisor: Chen, T. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Ma, C. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide QUB-1370 from the frog skin secretion of Pelophylax nigromaculata

Supervisor: Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Wu, Y. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide QUB2177 from the defensive skin secretion of the frog, Odorrana livida

Supervisor: Wu, Y. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor) & Chen, T. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide QUB2870 from the defensive skin secretion of the Heilongjiang brown frog (Rana amurensis)

Supervisor: Wu, Y. (Supervisor), Wang, L. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor) & Chen, T. (Supervisor)

A bioactive peptide QUB3009 from the defensive skin secretion of the frog, Phyllomedusa tomopterna

Supervisor: Shaw, C. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor), Wu, Y. (Supervisor) & Wang, L. (Supervisor)

A bioactivity peptide QUB2852 from the frog skin secretion of pelophylax nigromaculata

Supervisor: Wu, Y. (Supervisor), Chen, T. (Supervisor), Shaw, C. (Supervisor), Zhou, M. (Supervisor) & Wang, L. (Supervisor)

A bioinformatics approach to identifying ulcerative colitis patients at-risk of developing colorectal cancer

Supervisor: Kennedy, R. (Supervisor) & Blayney, J. (Supervisor)

A blueprint for food fraud mitigation and prevention for the beef industry

Supervisor: Dean, M. (Supervisor) & Elliott, C. (Supervisor)

A Bourdieusean perspective on the genesis and development of the science fiction translation field in China (1891–1949) with special reference to translations of H.G. Wells’s science fiction

Supervisor: Sadler, N. (Supervisor) & Harding, S. (Supervisor)

Absence and presence: Investigating the cinematic representation of Northern Irish unionists (1981-2020)

Supervisor: McLaughlin, C. (Supervisor), Barber, S. (Supervisor) & Bryan, D. (Supervisor)

Academic achievement of adolescents with chronic pain: the mediating role of sleep

Supervisor: Percy, A. (Supervisor) & Graham, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctorate in Educational, Child and Adolescent Psychology

Academic self-efficacy in undergraduate student nurses in Northern Ireland

Supervisor: Dunne, L. (Supervisor) & O'Hare, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Education

Academic Registry and Council Secretariat

Thesis submission and the viva,  please email  [email protected] to ask us a question., thesis submission .

To submit your thesis for examination you  must submit an electronic copy of the thesis to the Research Degrees Office in the approved format (a digital (PDF) file) by email to   [email protected] . The email submitting the thesis must be received in the RDO by 23:59 hours on the thesis submission deadline.

The thesis may be submitted by email to  [email protected]  or you may use the QMUL File Exchange Service at  https://collect.qmul.ac.uk/   (please email the link to  [email protected] ). If the File Exchange Service is used an email must be sent to  [email protected]  including the collect weblink on or before your thesis submission deadline. 

Please note: the QMUL File Exchange Service is scheduled to be closed on 31 st May 2024. We are working on an alternative system.

Please complete the PGR Thesis Submission Form (RD02) [DOC 39KB] and attach this to your email to RDO.

The two bound copies of the thesis are NOT required. The thesis must be submitted as a single combined document, preferably PDF. Appendices must not be submitted as separate documents. If you have any questions or need to submit additional material with your thesis, e.g. digital material, please contact   [email protected]   so that we can advise.

The date of thesis submission recorded on MySIS is the date on which the electronic copy of the thesis is submitted to RDO.

Thesis submission deadline

How to submit your thesis, embargo your thesis, presentation of the thesis, acknowledging support, examination outcomes.

The thesis submission deadline is determined by programme length and whether a student is studying full-time or part-time. Please see the table below for general guidance.

Students who have changed their mode of study from full-time to part-time (and vice versa), interrupted their studies, or have been granted an extension to their period of registration will have a different thesis submission deadline to the guide above.

A student’s thesis submission deadline is published in the  MySIS  Research Student Data view on the student’s home page. The submission deadline date is shown in the “Thesis” section.

Please contact the  Research Degrees Office (RDO) to confirm the thesis submission deadline. 

The formal entry for examination is the submission of the thesis to the Research Degrees Office before the thesis submission deadline. 

You must also submit a completed PGR Thesis Submission Form (RD02) [DOC 39KB] with the electronic copy of your thesis. The electronic copy of the thesis can be submitted by email to   [email protected] , or you can also use the QM 'Collect' file transfer service  for files up to 2GB. Please ensure that the maximum time limit for download is chosen.  

The date of thesis submission is recorded on MySIS by the Research Degrees Office. 

Once the Research Degrees Programmes and Examinations Board has approved your examiners (please see our page on the   nomination of examiners   for more information about this process), the Research Degrees Office will formally invite your examiners to act. 

Once the examiners have accepted the formal invitation, RDO will send the thesis to them electronically.

Your thesis will NOT be sent until BOTH examiners have accepted the formal invitation.

The two bound copies of the thesis will NOT be required . The thesis must be submitted as a single combined document, preferably PDF. Appendices must not be submitted as separate documents. If you have any questions or need to submit additional material with your thesis, e.g. digital material, please contact    [email protected]   

If you do not wish your thesis to be available online, you will be able to indicate it on the online form, when you submit the final version of the thesis to the library (post-viva).

The thesis must be presented in the format set out in the notes on PGR Presentation of Thesis Notes Apr 23 [PDF 122KB] . Bound copies of the thesis are not required unless the examiners request a paper copy. Please see the above guidance about thesis submission.

QMUL policy on editorial assistance for research degree theses

Please note that only a pdf of the thesis is required

Word limits.

The thesis must not exceed the following word limits:

• PhD – 100,000 words
• MPhil – 60,000 words
• MD(Res) – 50,000 words

For the degrees of DrPS, DPsych and DClinDent the minimum length of the thesis shall be no less than 25,000 words. [The bibliography is excluded from the word count; footnotes are included within the word count; appendices are excluded from the word count and should only include material which the examiners are not required to read in order to examine the thesis but to which they may refer if they wish.]

Your supervisor is responsible for arranging the viva and keeping you and the Research Degrees Office informed of these arrangements. If you have any queries about the viva, please speak to your supervisor in the first instance.

Research degrees oral examinations may be held remotely with all participants attending online or face to face on a Queen Mary campus in line with health and safety and travel guidance in place on the day of the viva. All participants must agree the format of the viva.  One examiner can attend remotely if the student and other examiner can attend in person together.  The student’s supervisor is responsible for organising the viva and will contact the examiners to liaise with them about these arrangements. This is subject to change according to Government guidelines. PGR Exam Guidance Notes August 2023 [DOC 67KB]

You must not contact the examiners yourself. You or your supervisor must not send the thesis to the examiners.  Your examination may be declared invalid if you do.  Please ensure that you or your supervisor(s) make it clear if your thesis needs to be printed and a hardcopy is to be dispatched to the examiner.  

Students who have received financial support from external funding bodies such as Research Councils should acknowledge this according to the format stipulated by their funding body. Research Councils require the following to be included on the appropriate page:

This work was supported by the [NAME of funding body] [grant NUMBER, if applicable]

Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma and a space. Where the research was supported by more than one agency, the different agencies should be separated by a semi-colon, with "and" before the final funder. 

For example:

This work was supported by the [NAME of funding body] [grant NUMBERS e.g.1234, 11223344]; the [NAME of funding body] [grant NUMBER, 12345]; and the [NAME of funding body] [grant NUMBER 000]

After the viva, your examiners will inform the Research Degrees Office of the outcome. They are required to do this within two weeks of the viva. They may inform you of the outcome of the examination at the end of the viva, but are not required to do so. There are eight possible outcomes:

• Pass subject to minor amendments to be completed and checked by one or both examiners within six months;
• Pass subject to major amendments to be completed and checked by both examiners within nine months.
• Not pass, but the candidate is allowed to revise the thesis and resubmit it within 18 months (for the PhD and MD(Res) degrees) or 12 months (for the MPhil degree);
• Not pass, but the candidate is allowed to take a written paper or practical examination;
• Not pass, but the candidate is allowed to submit to a second oral examination on the same thesis and by the same examiners within 18 months;
• [If entered for a PhD] Fail PhD but the candidate is deemed to have met the requirements for an MPhil (with or without minor amendments) or should be allowed to resubmit a revised thesis for the MPhil degree within 12 months;
• Fail outright: no re-entry permitted.

The Research Degrees Office will write to you to formally notify you of the outcome of the examination and advise you of the post-viva procedure. The RDO will send you a copy of the examination outcome form, a copy of the examiners’ report on the examination, and a list of amendments required by the examiners, unless you have passed outright or have already been provided with a list of amendments. You are responsible for submitting the revised thesis to the examiner(s) responsible for checking your amendments by the date stipulated on the examination outcome form. Please ensure that you keep your personal details up-to-date in  MySIS  to ensure that you receive this correspondence.

The outcome will need to be ratified by the Research Degrees Progression and Examinations Board which is held once a month. 

• 2. Thesis submission
• Information and services
• Higher Degree by Research

If you have submitted your thesis for examination via UQ eSpace please read this document for information on how your examination will progress.

• iThenticate similarity report
• UQRDM upload
• COVID Impact Statement
• After your thesis is submitted

1. Overview

Uploading your thesis for examination is a 2-step process:

• iThenticate Similarity Report: Generate and share your iThenticate similarity report with your principal advisor.
• UQRDM Upload : Upload files separately: Thesis + Abstract + iThenticate report + COVID impact statement (DOCX, 28.7 KB) (if applicable). Note: name your files based on the content type (thesis, abstract, etc.).

Should you require assistance, please contact the Graduate School .

You can find instructions on how to track the examination via the HTE request on our systems training hub guide . 

If you feel you are not ready to submit, read our Thesis Submission Date and Scholarship Extension information.

• 1. Thesis preparation
• 3. Thesis examination
• 4. Award of degree
• Thesis submission date and scholarship extension

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