DPhil Research - List of thesis titles (2024)

NameYearThesis Title
Beatty, A.1990Exchange and social organization in Nias, Indonesia.
Bridge, G.1990Gentrification, class, and community: a study of Sands End, London.
Echlin, M.R.1990The statistics of the Russian peasantry in the nineteenth century: a history.
Filmer-Sankey, W.1990On the function and status of prestige finger-rings in the early medieval Germanic world, c.450-700.
Holland, S.1990Development and differentiation in rural Thailand: a case study from the central region.
Iwabuchi, A.1990The social organization of the Alas of Northern Sumatra.
McGeehan Liritzis, V.1990The role and development of metallurgy in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age of Greece.
McGovern, B.J.1990The idea of applied social science: with special reference to social anthropology.
Mortimer, C.1990Some aspects of early medieval copper-alloy technology, as illustrated by a study of the Anglian cruciform brooch.
Murphy, A.M.1990The World Health Organization's Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI): an in-depth study of Hillingdon and West Berkshire Health Authorities, England.
O'Brien, E.M.1990Climate and woody plant species richness: analyses based upon southern Africa's native flora with extrapolations to subsaharan Africa.
Stokes, M.1990Anthropological perspectives on music in Turkey.
Winchester, V.1990An evaluation of lichenometry: with field studies in Lappland, Britain, and the Western Alps.
Zaki Yamani, M.A.1990Formality and propriety in the Hejaz.
Acheson, S.R.1991In the wake of the ya'áats' xaatgáay (iron people): a study of changing settlement strategies among the Kunghit Haida.
Almedom, A.M.1991Aspects of the growth and health of the suckling and weanling infant in Ethiopia.
Arensen, J.E.1991Aspects of language and society among the Murle of Sudan.
Bell, M.1991Man and other plants: naturalistic anthropology in Goethe's writing from Werther to Die Wahlverwandtschaften.
Boast, R.1991The hydrology and geomorphology of Dambos in southern central Africa using remotely sensed data.
Burke, J.F.1991The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Lower Zaire: a social and historical study.
Cohen, C.1991Educational administration in Namibia: the colonial and immediate post-independence periods.
Crawford, S.1991Age differentiation and related social status: a study of earlier Anglo-Saxon childhood.
Dransart, P.1991Fibre to fabric: the role of fibre in Camelid economies in prehispanic and contemporary Chile.
Fell, G.1991The impact of immigration on the Australian economy.
Giusti, L.1991A hydrogeochemical investigation of the occurrence and distribution of aluminium in a catchment affected by acid deposition.
Gleason, K.L.1991Towards an archaeology of landscape architecture in the ancient Roman world.
Griffith, J.W.1991Degeneration, atavism, survival, and regeneration: anthropological and zoological doctrines in some works of Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence.
Haines, M.1991Marx, Engels and anthropology: a historical study.
Hales, P.E.1991Inorganic geochemistry of tropical lake and swamp sediments.
Horn, D.P.1991A numerical model for shore-normal sediment size variation (with particular reference to the north coast of the Isle of Man).
Hutton, T.A.1991Local office policy in the context of strategic planning and structural change: the case of the London-South East region, circa 1975-1980.
Jay, S.E.1991Shamans, priests, and the cosmology of the Ngaju Dayak of central Kalimantan.
Johnes, P.J.1991An investigation of the effects of land use upon water quality in the Windrush catchment.
Kaufmann, G.1991Family formation and fertility in a favela in Belo Horizonte, Brazil: an analysis of cultural and demographic influences.
Kaye, K.J.1991The impacts of agricultural development grants in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Milliken, S.1991Aspects of lithic assemblage variability in the late paleolithic of south-east Italy.
Odaga, A.1991Kech en mar pesa: gender and livelihood in a Western Kenya sub-location.
Salleh, M.S.S.1991A grassroots approach to rural development: the case of Darul Arqam in Malaysia.
Van Eyen, W.1991Urban culture and the rise of the Basilimu: a social history of Kigali and Butare in Rwanda, 1966-1976.
Widdowson, M.1991The uplift history of the Western Ghats, India.
Wild, L.S.1991Planning and rural development, with particular reference to two districts of Oxfordshire.
Yeoh, B.S.A.1991Municipal control, Asian agency and the urban built-environment in colonial Singapore, 1880-1929.
Alexander, C.E.1992The art of "being black": the creation of black British youth identities.
Bowyer-Bower, T.A.S.1992Land surface response to rainfall in semi-arid systems: determinations from experiments using simulated rainfall in the Lowveld of Swaziland.
Bright, N.O.1992Mothers of steel: the women of Um Gargur, an Eritrean refugee settlement in Sudan.
Byron, M.1992The Caribbean-Britain migration cycle: migrant goals, social networks and socio-economic structure.
Crandall, D.P.1992The OvaHimba of Namibia: a study of dual descent and values.
De Jersey, P.1992La Tène and early Gallo-Roman north-west France.
Foschi, P.G.1992Classification of subpixel woody vegetation in remotely-sensed imagery of lowland Britain.
Hayco*ck, N.E.1992Riparian land as buffer zones in agricultural catchments.
Hwang, I.-c.1992Class, religion, and local community: social grouping in Nenagh, Republic of Ireland.
Impey, E.1992The origins and development of non-conventual monastic dependencies in England and Normandy, 1000-1350.
Khosa, M.M.1992Capital accumulation, the apartheid state and rise of the Black taxi industry in Johannesburg and Soweto, 1930-1990.
Liao, X.1992Two general circulation model experiments for 6000 years B.P.: analyses and comparisons with palaeoclimatic data.
Marsden, P.R.V.1992Shipping and the Port of London, from Roman times to the 13th century: some archaeological evidence.
Mousavi, S.A.1992The Hazaras of Afghanistan: an historical, cultural, economic and political study.
Nagle, G.1992Malnutrition in the Zwelitsha area of Ciskei.
Palk, N.A.1992Metal horse harness of the British and Irish Iron Ages.
Pierce, T.M.1992A GIS-compatible, active computer algorithm for American Congressional redistricting.
Ross, S.1992Dress pins from Anglo-Saxon England: their production and typo-chronological development.
Sciama, L.D.1992Relations between centre and periphery in the city of Venice: a study of Venetian life in a lagoon island.
van Alstyne, G.1992The poetics of a bilingual community in Mala_i: a study of the sung poetry of Malonje village.
Veleda Reimão Queiroga, F.M.1992War and Castros: new approaches to the northwestern Portuguese Iron Age.
Wace, P.M.1992The role of enclosures in the TRB groups of central Germany, northwest Germany and southern Scandinavia.
Chatterji, A.1993The changing nature of the Indian hill station.
Chryssanthopoulou, V.1993The construction of ethnic identity among the Castellorizian Greeks of Perth, Australia.
Constantinidou, E.I.1993Local history and identity in a coastal village in East Sutherland, Scotland: a social anthropological study.
Dembour, M.-B.1993The memory of colonialism: meetings with former colonial officers of the Belgian Congo.
Dodaro, R.J.1993Language and justice: political anthropology in Augustine's De ciuitate Dei.
Ensenyat Alcover, J.F.1993The Balearic Copper Age in the context of West Mediterranean archaeology.
Hamilton, S.1993The constitution of the human being according to early Buddhism.
Harrison, J.D.1993An institution in transition: an ethnography of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.
Hart, A.1993Purchasing power?: an ethnographic study of men who buy sex in Alicante, Spain.
Haynes, I.P.1993The romanization of the alae and cohortes of the Roman imperial army from Augustus to Septimius Severus.
Howard, S.M.1993Ethnicity, autonomy, land and development: the Miskitu of Nicaragua's northern Atlantic coast.
Johnson, H.M.1993The symbolism of the koto: an ethnomusicology of the form and function of a traditional Japanese musical instrument.
Lee, A.K.1993Making do in the city: the survival tactics of London's young homeless.
Macleod, D.V.L.1993Change in a Canary Island fishing settlement, with reference to the influence of tourism.
Merrifield, A.K.1993The dialectics of urban space.
Prakasam, G.1993Satnamis: the changing status of a scheduled caste in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh.
Russell, A.1993The Yakha: culture, environment and development in East Nepal.
Scott, S.1993Fourth century Romano-British villa mosaics: aspects of form and meaning.
Skeates, R.1993The Neolithic and Copper Age of the Abruzzo-Marche region, central Italy.
Tsintjilonis, D.1993Death and personhood among the Sa'dan Toraja.
Abram, S.1994Recollections and recreations: tourism, heritage and history in the French Auvergne.
Ayres, L.1994The beautiful and the absent: anthropology and ontology in Augustine's De trinitate.
Banerjee, M.1994A study of the Khudai khidmatgar movement, 1930-1947, N.W.F.P., British India.
Boa, K.1994Theological and psychological accounts of human needs: a comparative study.
Burnett, J.1994NGO roles in expanding financial services for the poor, with a case study of Ghana.
Carrese, S.M.1994Poetry, Sesotho, and the making of the Basotho people.
Charles, R.1994Food for thought: late Magdalenian chronology and faunal exploitation in the north-western Ardennes.
Coleman, A.1994Community as catalyst: a study of personhood and identity in the culture of survival, São Paulo, Brazil.
Daniels, C.1994Defilement and purification: Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims at Bodhnath, Nepal.
Fullerton, S.M.1994Allelic sequence diversity at the human beta-globin locus.
Herman, M.1994Songs, honour and identity: the Bet Israel (Ethiopian Jews) in Israel.
Holdsworth, C.J.1994The revolution in anthropology: a comparative analysis of the metaphysics of E.B. Tylor (1832-1917) and Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942).
Horlick, P.J.1994A study and comparison of selected palaeolithic sites using techniques of spatial analysis.
Jones, R.L.C.1994The state of fortification in Lancastrian Normandy, 1417-50.
Kenny, T.J.1994A critical geography of human rights.
Laux, C.M.1994Three paradigms in cultural criticism: Northrop Frye, Tzvetan Todorov, and the school of Clifford Geertz.
Loukaki, A.1994Greece: ancient ruins, value conflicts, and aspects of development.
Magowan, F.C.1994Melodies of mourning: a study of form and meaning in Yolngu women's music and dance in traditional ritual and Christian contexts.
Martin, D.J.L.1994Pregnancy and childbirth among the Chinese of Hong Kong.
Mason, R.B.1994Islamic glazed pottery: 700-1250.
McDonnell, R.1994A GIS-based hierarchical simulation model for assessing the impacts of large dam projects.
Mikhail, R.S.1994Peasants' perceptions of recent Egyptian history.
Pollard, T.M.1994Variation in mood, adrenal stress hormone levels and blood pressure associated with everyday working experience in a British population.
Radwan, L.S.1994Irrigation and social organisation in rural Egypt.
Savory, J.1994Curanderismo, "traditional" and "modern" in Galicia.
Slattery, M.C.1994Contemporary sediment dynamics and sediment delivery in a small agricultural catchment, north Oxfordshire, UK.
Stokes, S.1994Optical dating of selected late Quaternary Aeolian sediments from the southwestern United States.
Strang, V.1994Uncommon ground: concepts of landscape and human-environmental relations in Far North Queensland.
Tucker, P.N.J.1994Water rights, drought and the human ecology of famine: North Kordofan, 1984-5.
Willis, K.1994Women's work and social network use in Oaxaca City, Mexico: an analysis of class differences.
Young, T.K.H.1994Human obesity and arctic adaptation: epidemiological patterns, metabolic effects, and evolutionary implications.
Behr, J.1995Godly lives: asceticism and anthropology, with special reference to sexuality, in the writings of St. Irenaeus of Lyons and St. Clement of Alexandria.
Blue, L.K.1995A topographical analysis of the location of harbours and anchorages of the eastern Mediterranean in the middle and late Bronze Ages, and their relation to routes of trade.
Chan, S.C.1995Tradition inherited, tradition reinterpreted: a Chinese lineage in the 1990s.
Darbellay, A.M.A.1995Rural-urban interactions in North Chuquisaca, Bolivia: flows of goods, relational exchange and power relations.
Goodstadt, P.1995The 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration: the effects on Hong Kong-China border relations (1979-1989).
Kaul, L.R.1995Reclaiming the nation through land: Jewish religious nationalism in Israel.
Keates, S.G.1995The significance of the older Palaeolithic occurrences in the Nihewan Basin, northern China, in the context of important Early and Middle Pleistocene northern Chinese localities.
Maddrell, A.1995Geography, gender and the state: a critical evaluation of the development of geography, 1830-1918.
Mahmud, A.1995Impact of highland-lowland interaction on agriculture in the Hunza valley.
Nakatani, A.1995Contested time: women's work and marriage in Bali.
Newbold, E.1995The geography of poor relief expenditure in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century rural Oxfordshire.
Olago, D.O.1995Late Quaternary lake sediments of Mount Kenya, Kenya.
Parker, A.G.1995Late Quaternary environmental change in the Upper Thames basin, central-southern England.
Passmore, A.1995Planning language: the history of planning and the discourse of reconstruction in Plymouth and Caen.
Sieff, D.F.1995The effects of resource availability on the subsistence strategies of Datoga pastoralists of north west Tanzania.
Singh, L.P.1995The impact of migration, environment and economic conditions on the biological growth and physique of Sikhs.
Sloane, P.1995Good works and networks: Islam, modernity, and entrepreneurship among the Malays.
Tebbs, P.1995Studying the blues as ethnomusicology.
Toms, J.1995Some aspects of the Villanovan culture of southern Etruria, with special reference to Tarquinia.
Anderson, D.E.1996Abrupt Holocene climatic change recorded in terrestrial peat sequences from Wester Ross, Scotland.
Barnett, C.1996Impure and worldly geography.
Bircher, R.1996Peasant resistance and the defence of servitude rights in Russia's South West, 1890-1914.
Brown, N.C.1996The nisetai j_taku phenomenon: the prefabricated housing industry and changing family patterns in contemporary Japan.
Cairns, S.1996A geographical investigation of travel for food shopping.
Coombe, E.D.K.1996Implications of an investigation by coring into the sediments of the Fleet Lagoon, Chesil Beach, Dorset, England.
Dwyer, G.1996Supernatural affliction and its treatment: aspects of popular religion in rural and urban Rajasthan.
Eckardt, F.1996The distribution and origin of gypsum in the central Namib desert, Namibia: a study of the sulphur cycle in a coastal hyper-arid desert.
f*ckuda, K.1996The place of animals in British moral discourse: a field study from the Scottish Borders.
Gibb, C.C.T.1996In the city of saints: religion, politics and gender in Harar, Ethiopia.
Jakobsen, M.D.1996Shamanism: traditional and contemporary approaches to the mastery of spirits and healing.
Maxted, J.1996Race and class in a transforming metropolis: Los Angeles.
Mayhew, R.J.1996Samuel Johnson on landscape, natural knowledge and geography: a contextual approach.
Moore, D.R.1996Concepts of disease and their relationship to health-seeking behaviour in Chuquisaca Department, South Bolivia.
Murphy, R.M.1996Space, class and rhetoric in Lahore.
O'Hara, S.L.1996Late Holocene environmental change in the basin of Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, México.
Papadimitriou, F.1996Land use modelling, land degradation and land use planning in East Attica, Greece.
Scott-Jackson, J.E.1996A study of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts found in relation to deposits mapped as clay-with-flints on the chalk downlands of southern England.
Shahgedanova, M.1996Climatology of air pollution in Moscow.
Small, C.1996Social theory: an historical analysis of Canadian socio-cultural policies, race and the other: a case study of social and spatial segregation in Montreal.
Wong, H.W.1996An anthropological study of a Japanese supermarket in Hong Kong.
Abel, F.S.J.1997Structure and history in Kisar.
Ahmed, M.1997We are warp and weft: nomadic pastoralism and the tradition of weaving in Rupshu (Eastern Ladakh).
Burr, G.1997Eshawa!: vision, voice and mythic narrative: an ethnographic presentation of Ese-eja mythopoeia.
Calcagno, C.1997Aspects of seafaring and trade in the central Mediterranean region, ca. B.C. 1200-800.
Economou, M.1997The application of interactive multimedia in museums and archaeology: design and evaluation of the Euesperides program.
Flynn, D.1997Evidence for social complexity within two captive langur groups, presbytis entellus and presbytis cristata.
Godun, O.S.1997Generation of phosphorus bioavailability in runoff from a calcareous agricultural catchment.
Gonçalves, M.P.1997Bulldozer and pastiche: urban renewal experience since World War Two in Recife, Brazil.
Heppell, C.M.1997The fate of pesticide in underdrained clay soil.
Honychurch, L.1997Carib to Creole: contact and culture exchange in Dominica.
Howard, D.J.1997Colouring the nation: race and ethnicity in the Dominican Republic.
Hu, M.1997Plio-pleistocene environmental variations inferred from thick sediment sequences in the North China Plain.
Keita, S.O.S.Y.1997Aspects of the human biology of sociohistorical change in ancient Upper Egypt.
Kelly, W.H.1997Empty orchestras: an anthropological analysis of karaoke in Japan.
Nakagawa, Y.1997Kinship written, kinship practised: a study of kinship and the writing of genealogies in contemporary Korea.
Norman, K.A.1997My_ngjun's story: the ideology of Korean village women in the early years of national economic growth.
Palmer, J.1997Wichí goodwill: ethnographic allusions.
Park, S.1997Modelling soil-landform continuum on a three-dimensional hillslope.
Parkhurst, G.1997Changing tracks: the influence of a new light railway on perceptions of urban space and travel decisions.
Price, R.P.S.1997Burial practice and aspects of social structure in the late Chalcolithic of north-east Bulgaria.
Pydyn, A.1997The social and cultural impact of exchange, trade and interregional contacts in the transition from the late Bronze Age to the early Iron Age in Central Europe.
Rathbone, J.1997The influence of weather on asthma admissions in the Oxford region, 1976-1985.
Ryan, M.1997Measuring the efficacy of an indigenous treatment: the Tibetan medical treatment for arthritis.
Samers, M.E.1997The production and regulation of North African immigrants in the Paris automobile industry, 1970-1990.
Schmitt, S.F.1997Disturbance and succession on the Krakatau Islands, Indonesia.
Thompson, J.M.1997The history, taxonomy and ecology of the bonobo (Pan paniscus Schwarz 1929) with a first description of a wild population living in a forest/savanna mosaic habitat.
Tsouvalis, J.1997The social construction of nature: the case of forestry in Great Britain since the turn of the 20th century.
Zachhuber, J.1997The universal nature of man in Gregory of Nyssa: philosophical background and theological significance.
Bakker, K.J.1998Privatizing the environment: the political ecology of water in England and Wales.
Balzani, M.1998Changing traditions and rituals of legitimation: studies in kingship from Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
Bergin, P.1998Maori migration and cultural identity: the Australian experience.
Cave, P.1998Schooling, selfhood and educational reform in Japan: an ethnographic study of upper primary and lower secondary education.
Elgood, R.1998A study of the origin, evolution and role in society of a group of chiselled steel Hindu arms and armour from southern India, c.1400-1865 AD.
Griffiths, T.F.W.1998Ethnoeconomics and native Amazonian livelihood: culture and economy among the Nipóde-Uitoto of the Middle Caquetá Basin in Colombia.
Hoecklin, L.M.1998Motherhood in the Fatherland: towards understanding a mother centre in Southern Germany.
Huang, Y.1998Modelling land use change and agricultural performance in post-reform China using remotely sensed data and GIS.
Jhutti, J.1998A study of changes in marriage practices among the Sikhs of Britain.
Kawharu, M.1998Dimensions of Kaitiakitanga: an investigation of a customary Maori principle of resource management.
Kleinknecht-Strähle, U.1998Three phases of post-World-War II Russian German migration from the former Soviet Union to Germany.
Langslow, A.K.1998Between rivers: the postmodern condition in a totalitarian state.
Linda., M.1998Social change in southern Iberia in the first millennium B.C.: with special reference to the cemetery evidence.
Mallett, A.1998Chaos and order: the environmental thought of John Martin (1789-1854).
Matchett, L.S.1998Denitrification in riparian buffer zones.
McFall, S.1998Keeping identity in its place: culture and politics among the Mapuche of Chile.
Mitchell, J.C.1998A use-wear analysis of selected British lower palaeolithic handaxes with special reference to the site of Boxgrove (West Sussex): a study incorporating optical microscopy, computer aided image analysis and experimental archaeology.
Power, D.1998The alienation of the public in the City of London.
Tapsell, P.1998Taonga: a tribal response to museums.
Thompson-Fawcett, M.1998Envisioning urban villages: a critique of a movement and two urban transformations.
Ulmschneider, K.U.1998The archaeology of middle Saxon England: the evidence of Lincolnshire and Hampshire compared.
Vivian, B.J.1998The role of rapid recharge processes in the initiation of landslides.
Waldau, P.1998Speciesism in Christianity and Buddhism.
Washington, R.1998Interannual and interdecadal variability of African rainfall.
Wong, L.-l.1998Tso yüeh-tzu: the post-natal ritual of Han Chinese women in Taiwan.
Banks, N.1999Cultural values and the adoption of energy efficient technologies.
Bennett, P.1999Mutual risk: moral economy in environmental insurance.
Boerma, P.1999Seeing the wood for the trees: deforestation in the Central Highlands of Eritrea since 1890.
Boni, S.1999Hierarchy in twentieth-century Sefwi (Ghana).
Crawley, H.1999Gender, persecution and the politics of protection: refugee women and asylum in the UK.
Da' Luz Vieira, L.C.G.1999Acupuncture in Oxford: the role of belief in healing practice.
Eizaguirre, M.1999Effects of geographic and political boundaries on the genetic structure of the Minho River Valley.
El-Khouri Klink, Z.1999Beyond the _an__r: female attire traditions in 19th-century Mount Lebanon.
Hann, A.G.1999Kinship and exchange relations within an estate economy: Ditchley, 1680-1750.
Harrison, P.A.1999Climate change and wheat production: spatial modelling of impacts in Europe.
Hunter, J.1999The social construction of an environmental problem: Waldsterben in Germany.
Kaika, M.1999Modernity and the urban spaces of produced nature: the politics, culture and aesthetics of the urbanisation of water in Athens (1834-1999).
Kaiser, T.1999Living in limbo: insecurity and the settlement of Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda.
Le Billon, P.1999Power is consuming the forest: the political ecology of conflict and reconstruction in Cambodia.
Meekison, L.1999Playing the games: indigenous performance in Australia's Festival of the Dreaming.
Moran, D.1999Russia's emerging margins: the transition in the north of Perm oblast.
Piercey, D.1999Cultural geography: public art and the urban landscape.
Rae, J.1999Tribe and state: management of the Syrian steppe.
Schneider, J.A.1999Genetic recombination in the human beta-globin gene cluster.
Seirlis, J.K.1999Arcadia: urban space and coloured identities in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Sharman, R.L.1999With the vision they see: identity and aesthetic experience in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica.
Snapp, A.L.1999The world of the Calusa.
Stiff, M.1999Through a glass darkly: seventh to ninth century vessel glass from wics and emporia in north western Europe.
Washington, R.1999Interannual and interdecadal variability of African rainfall.
DPhil Research - List of thesis titles (2024)

FAQs

What is enough for a PhD thesis? ›

The length of a PhD thesis varies from subject to subject, but all are far longer than those for undergraduate or Masters degrees. Your university will usually set an upper limit – typically between 70,000 and 100,000 words, with most dissertations coming in at around 80,000 words.

How many research questions should a PhD thesis have? ›

Most dissertations are guided by 1-3 substantive and specific research questions.

What is a good PhD thesis title? ›

The title should tie together the chapters of your thesis.

A well-phrased title can do a good job of summarising the overall story of your thesis. Think about each of your research chapters and ensure that the title makes sense for each of them.

What is the most read PhD thesis? ›

Einstein's PhD thesis titled “A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions” was completed in 1906 and is the world's most cited work.

Can I write my PhD thesis in 3 months? ›

Targets and consistency. I set myself a target of 3 months, broken down into targets for each chapter. This would give me about 3 months in reserve before the final absolute deadline. I had a daily minimum target of 500 words, which I knew I could meet even on the least productive days.

Is 50000 words enough for a PhD thesis? ›

The thesis is not to exceed 80,000 words for the PhD and 60,000 words for the MSc or MLitt degree. Footnotes, references and text within tables are to be counted within the word-limit, but captions, appendices and bibliographies are excluded.

How big is the average PhD thesis? ›

A PhD thesis (or dissertation) is typically 60,000 to 120,000 words (100 to 300 pages in length) organised into chapters, divisions and subdivisions (with roughly 10,000 words per chapter) – from introduction (with clear aims and objectives) to conclusion.

What is an ideal sample size for a PhD thesis? ›

Usually, a sample lies between these two extremes, with between 30 and 400 respondents being a part of the study. An optimum result can be achieved by taking 30 responses in consideration. This will be sufficient for a minor study; however this is more applicable for exploratory research or a pilot study.

How long should a PhD thesis title be? ›

There is no set limit for how long a thesis title can be, as it can vary depending on the institution or specific guidelines. However, it is generally recommended to keep the title concise and clear, ideally within 10-15 words. The title should effectively summarize the main focus or subject of the thesis.

What makes an excellent PhD thesis? ›

A good PhD thesis contains many references to original work and demonstrates a thorough, critical understanding of the context of the own work. Any one of above reasons should trigger a clear reference in the text that points to a suitable original source.

What is a perfect thesis title? ›

A good thesis title is one that is clear, concise, and informative. It should accurately reflect the topic of your thesis and should be specific enough to be meaningful. However, it should also be broad enough to allow for a thorough exploration of the topic.

What level of PhD is a thesis? ›

The typical PhD thesis structure will contain four chapters of original work sandwiched between a literature review chapter and a concluding chapter. There is no universal rule for the length of a thesis, but general guidelines set the word count between 70,000 to 100,000 words.

Who has the shortest PhD thesis? ›

“The world record for the shortest doctoral dissertation is held by a mathematician: nine pages for a PhD obtained from MIT in 1966.” Mr. Roy also discovered that titles have become longer over time. “This would suggest that we are losing our capacity for abridgement,” he notes.

Has a PhD thesis ever won a Nobel Prize? ›

At the age of 24 she moved to study higher degrees at the University of Paris and to continue her scientific research there, leading to her famous PhD thesis on radioactive substances and also to her first Nobel Prize which she shared with her husband Pierre Curie and the physicist Henri Becquerel.

How many publications are considered good for a PhD? ›

Some programs encourage publication of papers, or even base your doctorate on published papers, usually about 3–5. Others really encourage you not to write other papers until you finish your dissertation, and just keep any unused research as the basis for future articles or books.

How much is enough for a PhD thesis? ›

A thesis must contribute new knowledge to its field, necessitating a deep familiarity with the expected structure, depth of analysis, and submission formalities. Your university guidelines should state how many words in a PhD thesis are needed within your discipline—usually ranging from 60,000 to 80,000 words.

Is 150 pages enough for a PhD thesis? ›

Average, good, size for a thesis is 150 pages all in. Perhaps up to 50 extra pages for a big appendix and bibliography. Beware of the trend to write long and boring doctorates (papers, &c), improve your communications skills.

Is 100 pages enough for a PhD thesis? ›

How long should a PhD thesis be? A PhD thesis (or dissertation) is typically 60,000 to 120,000 words (100 to 300 pages in length) organised into chapters, divisions and subdivisions (with roughly 10,000 words per chapter) – from introduction (with clear aims and objectives) to conclusion.

What is the minimum sample size for PhD thesis? ›

Usually, a sample lies between these two extremes, with between 30 and 400 respondents being a part of the study. An optimum result can be achieved by taking 30 responses in consideration.

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