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Copyright for Postgraduate Research Students

Once your PhD has been awarded you will be required to submit an electronic version for the university’s records. The electronic version of your thesis will be hosted in King's institutional repository  Pure   and made available on the internet via the from end of Pure called the  Research Portal . An e-thesis made available in this way is considered to be a publication. As such, it is important to ensure good academic practice on citation of 3rd party material incorporated into the theses. This includes all images, graphs, drawings, etc - anything the author did not create themselves.

Modest amounts of 3 rd  party material can be included in a PhD theses under the copyright exception of fair dealing for criticism or review. If more extensive amounts of material are included permission may need to be sought from the rights owner. If permission isn’t granted a decision will need to be made about whether to risk keeping the content is it is, substituting other content, or redacting problematic material in the etheses version.

Please see  here  for more information about copyright and etheses.

Please see  here  for more information about intellectual property for postgraduate research students.

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We're here to help you, whether you are in the discover, focus or action phase of your career journey., it’s dissertation time(line).

Written by Silje Undlien, Third Year War Studies undergraduate at King’s College London & Student Enquiries Officer at King’s Careers & Employability.

The dissertation. Whether you’re an undergraduate or postgraduate student at King’s, it’s something you have to go through as part of your degree. You might consider it one of the most important challenges of your academic career. Or it’s just one of those things you know you have to get done.  Most students start off with a great deal of enthusiasm about their dissertation, but the scale of the project can easily throw them to despair. Whatever you might be feeling about writing your dissertation, it’s important that you discover how to devise and stick to a work schedule. Often, it’s the sticking to that will create problems. So how do I go about creating a dissertation timeline or work schedule, and why should I have a timeline at all?

The short answer is that I can’t really give you an answer. No single way of creating a dissertation timeline or work schedule will satisfy the needs and methods of every student. Everyone has their own way of doing things! But being organised is still key. You need to be realistic about your deadline and, more importantly, your time management skills. So, to get started, here are some questions to ask yourself:

• What type of dissertation am I writing?
• Am I an undergraduate or postgraduate student?
• How much time do I have to write my dissertation?
• How is my course organised? Am I doing my dissertation alongside other modules and commitments?
• Am I choosing my own topic? Or is my department choosing the project for me? Perhaps it’s a module-based project?
• What am I expecting from myself?

All of this will impact on how your dissertation research might progress. Especially important is realising just how much time you really have to get your project done. If you’re an undergraduate student with modules and coursework to do alongside your dissertation, it’s easy to get lost in the idea that you have a full year to write your dissertation. (Trust me, I’ve been there!) Realistically, however, you will only have a few months. Your full year is actually just an academic year. And from this academic year you’ll need to factor in time off, holidays, illness, part-time work, and all the other commitments you might have going on in and alongside your course. It might be the most general tip I can give you, but it’s an important one: Get started ASAP!

The first step is to learn your methods. One of our Marketing Assistants, currently writing her postgraduate dissertation, recently said: “You really do need to learn your methods. I’m still getting to know mine.” So ask yourself: How do I normally organise my work? What are my habits, good or bad? Your dissertation is probably going to be your biggest project yet, and, though you might be telling yourself that you’ll get rid of all your bad work habits, chances are you’ll fall into a similar routine or pattern of organising and doing your work to what you’ve done before. Have you normally been the last-minute essay writer? Establishing your own methods of studying is the first step to getting organised. I’m not saying that you should write your dissertation last minute, even if that’s your established method of getting work done. All I’m trying to point out is that you’ll be better-equipped to deal with the big task of writing your dissertation if you know yourself, and, importantly, if you create a work schedule which accommodates this knowledge about yourself, your work ethic, and your time management skills. It’s all about realistic planning…

So, how can I get organised? You’ll need to find a system that works for you. The most important thing is to find a way to write down a list of tasks or action points. Some people might prefer to set vague deadlines, while others will create a ‘Study Matrix’ (see example below) with detailed information abut how and when things are going to get done. Point is, it can be as detailed (or not detailed) as you like. It might be a good idea to plan out when you’ll have your meetings with your supervisor, and to pin-point what you’d like to discuss in each meeting. Ask your supervisor to help you create a set of action points after each meeting, so that you have a rough idea of what you need to do before the next one. If you feel like your supervisor is not pushing you enough; ask them to! (Stay tuned for a more detailed blog post about how to communicate with your supervisor!)

I mentioned before that finding a system can often be less problematic than making yourself stick to it. (Cheers to you, fellow procrastinators!) So what can I do to stay organised?  First of all, you should identify and deal with procrastination. Find out why you procrastinate and what you might do to avoid it. You might want to minimize distractions, ask someone to check up on you, or create a reward system. You should also find out in what kind of environment you work best. How, when, and where do I best stay focused? You can also try using Tomato Timer , a time management technique created for a more productive way to work and study. Secondly, it’s important to have emergency plans. What happens and what will I do if I experience unexpected delays? Staying organised is also about understanding that things are not going to go just the way you planned it to, and to find ways to deal with this without losing sight of the end goal.

On a final note, remember to schedule enough time for proof-reading and touch-ups, to edit with fresh eyes, and to make lots of backups as you go! It will also be useful to locate any departmental information or guidelines for dissertation-writing. So there you have it! It’s dissertation time!

PhD Thesis Template for King's College London

This is an unofficial LaTeX template for King's College London PhD Thesis submissions which is modified from the template for CUED to meet the current requirements of King's. Please check them at https://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/acservices/researchdegrees/students/format-of-thesis-and-binding before using this template. The usage details of the template can be found at: https://github.com/kks32/phd-thesis-template

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Military Ethics and Humanitarian Values for the Twenty-First Century

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Derivative-Based Financial Network Clearing: Transition From Intractability to Computable Solutions

Supervisor: De Keijzer, B. (Supervisor) & Ventre, C. (Supervisor)

Designing and Evaluating a Task Recommender System for Wikidata Editors

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Effects of DBS-STN on Impulsivity and Other Psychiatric Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease: Outcomes of a Prospective Multicentre Observational Study, a Narrative Review and a Single Site Audit

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Understanding the impact of a common IL2RA polymorphism on immune phenotype and function in inflammatory bowel disease

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Aggression and Unity: Impacts of the First World War on German Protestant Missions in Hong Kong

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The Paradox of Production Capabilities in a GVC World: The Case of Natural Rubber in Malaysia

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Hyperglycemia-induced thioredoxin reductase degradation accelerates ferroptotic cell death propagation in diabetic renal tubules

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Assessing the tumour-specific immunogenicity of liver cancer extracellular matrix

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Early life adversity and mental health problems in adolescents: the role of the inflammatory system and nutrition

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Machine Learning for Automated Interpretation of Spleen Ultrasound Images

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Identification of the immune signature and neoantigen landscape of myeloproliferative neoplasms

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Electromagnetic field dark spots

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Investigating Cell Fate Decisions at the Neural Plate Border

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Low anterior resection syndrome (LARS): Developing a LARS toolkit for initial interventions following surgery for rectal cancer

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Exploring Ligand Binding in Glycine-Gated Ion Channels with Molecular Dynamics and Enhanced Sampling Methods

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The implementation of the use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures into routine Clinical Practice for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer

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Understanding symptom burden and the journey to diagnosis for patients under investigation for Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS)

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Static and Dynamic Features of non-Hermitian Many-Body Localisation

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Age fast to live young: the search for molecules to bring prematurely aged human neural stem cells back to life

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The Development of Robust and Safe Reinforcement Learning Methods

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Deep Learning based Collaborative Edge Caching for Mobile Edge Networks

Supervisor: Nakhai, M. (Supervisor)

Discrimination against Ideological Minorities: An Ideological Critique of International and Islamic Law through Case Studies of India and Pakistan

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THE ROLE OF MIDDLE POWERS IN NUCLEAR CRISES: THE CASE OF SOUTH KOREA, 2001-2021

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The Role of the Information Function of a Trade Mark in the Context of Legal Enforcement on Social Media

Supervisor: Phillips, J. C. (Supervisor) & academic, A. (Supervisor)

Essays in Econometrics

Supervisor: Kapetanios, G. (Supervisor)

Acoustic Tracking of Ocean Wanderers: Revealing Behavioural Context on the Wing

Supervisor: Freeman, R. (External person) (Supervisor) & Dawson, T. (Supervisor)

Artificial Intelligence, Service-Sales Interface, and Frontline Ambidexterity

Supervisor: Tuncdogan, A. (Supervisor) & Barnes, S. (Supervisor)

Plasmonics-Based Control and Sensing of Analytes

Supervisor: Rakovich, A. (Supervisor) & Rodriguez Fortuno, F. (Supervisor)

Identifying patterns of healthcare use and exploring indicators of quality of care among people with dementia nearing the end of life using routine data

Supervisor: Sleeman, K. E. (Supervisor), Stewart, R. J. (Supervisor) & Sampson, E. L. (External person) (Supervisor)

Deep Learning Algorithms for Cardiopulmonary Image and Signal Analysis

The role of cd34+ stem cells in intimal hyperplasia following vein bypass grafting.

Supervisor: Modarai, B. (Supervisor) & Smith, A. (Supervisor)

Translation of Computer-Assisted Point-of-care Ultrasound Imaging Methods in a Resource Limited Intensive Care Unit

Supervisor: King, A. (Supervisor), Gomez Herrero, A. (Supervisor) & Razavi, R. (Supervisor)

Age-related Proteomics Changes in the Human Aorta

Supervisor: Mayr, M. (Supervisor) & Theofilatos, K. (Supervisor)

Genetic influence on DNA methylation and its value towards methylation imputation

Supervisor: Bell, J. (Supervisor) & Falchi, M. (Supervisor)

Interaction of Complex Interaction of Complex Beams with Epsilon-Near-Zero Media

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Systematic review (sr) toolbox- currently off-line temporarily, may 2024.

Systematic Review (SR) Toolbox  is a searchable online catalogue of tools to support systematic reviews, which aims to help reviewers find appropriate tools based on their needs. It uses a simple, yet flexible, classification system to classify tools based on how they provide support for the systematic review process.

Undertaking a systematic review involves the systematic storage, management, validation and analysis of large quantities of data; activities that can be error prone and time consuming. Automated tools (i.e. software), therefore, can be used to support many aspects of the systematic review process.

For example, the SR Toolbox contains details of Risk of Bias software and websites including RoB 2, ROBINS-I and other risk of bias tools and checklists.

Although the focus of SR Toolbox is on identifying software to support systematic reviews, other tools or support mechanisms (i.e. checklists, guidelines and reporting standards) can also be found.

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Consider registering your systematic review and also searching to see whether a systematic review on your prospective topic has also been registered in order to avoid duplicating research.

PROSPERO includes details of any ongoing systematic review that has a health related outcome in the broadest sense. Systematic review protocols registered on PROSPERO can include studies of any design. Work is underway to facilitate the inclusion of reviews of pre-clinical studies. 

Other registers of systematic review protocols include the Cochrane Collaboration, Campbell Collaboration and Joanna Briggs Institute. There are also some journals which publish Systematic Review protocols e.g. BioMed Central's Systematic Reviews.

If your Systematic Review does not fit PROSPERO's criteria e.g. a review of pre-clinical studies then you could consider publishing your protocol on a site such as Research Gate , figshare or Open Science Framework (OSF ) or INPLASY (note there may be a charge for registering with this site).

Scoping reviews also can't currently be included on PROSPERO. The  PRISMA guidance for scoping review s (PRISMA SCr) suggests some locations for registering the protocol including  Open Science Framework .

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Requests can be made for books, journal articles, theses, dissertations and other publications. 

Students and staff are allocated a number of free requests at the beginning of each academic year. For more information on how to place a request and to see the annual allocation please visit the  Interlending and Document Delivery page .

If you are aware that the systematic review you are undertaking will rely heavily on material that King's does not subscribe to or that you cannot gain access to via other libraries such as the Senate House Library or the British Library then you should first contact the Library  for advice and to discuss your specific needs . If you expect to make a large number of requests then it may be necessary to agree with you an approximate time frame for obtaining the requested material that will not adversely affect other customers of the service.  In the majority of cases you will find that the free annual allocation will be enough, particularly for systematic reviews limited to the English language in the health, clinical & life sciences fields.  

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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.

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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.
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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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EIS PhD Research Proposal Guidelines

The research proposal is the most important part of your PhD application. We do not expect the proposal to be perfect at this stage, nor do we expect you to stick to it rigidly, as your ideas will almost certainly change once you start to study. However, we do expect it to show convincing evidence of your ability to plan and organise independent research. Please read and follow the guidelines carefully. 

Your proposal should be 2,000-3,000 words long , plus bibliography, using the following sections: 

• Title  – The best titles are simple and descriptive, identifying the topic and approach that will be taken.
• Central research question and objectives  – The question your research seeks to answer should be stated simply, then fleshed out to show to show why it is timely and important – both intellectually and politically – for you to be writing a PhD on this topic. After that, you should state, in straightforward terms, how the PhD will answer the research question.
• Literature review – Here you must show how your central research question relates to existing academic studies in your field. This requires a short literature review which will situate your proposed research within the framework of the dominant perspectives on similar issues in the existing literature. Ideally, you should be able to demonstrate how your proposed research fills a gap in the literature and therefore adds substantively and can make a lasting contribution to academic debates. One key criterion for writing a successful PhD is that it is original work, so you must try to avoid setting up your analysis in a way which simply replicates work which can already be found within the literature.
• Theoretical framework – Here, you should detail what theoretical framework(s) will underpin the analysis in your PhD, why that framework has been chosen, and what advantages it gives you for addressing your central research question.
• Case studies and methodology – Here, you should discuss the type of empirical research (statistical work, interviews, surveys etc.) that you will be doing and the case study/case studies that you have chosen. This is essential in all cases except for abstract political theory PhDs. You should show how your theoretical framework informs the methodology that you will use and why that methodology is particularly advantageous for answering the research question.
• Problems – Here, you should reflect on any problems you think you may encounter whilst undertaking your research and indicate how they might be overcome or mitigated. These might include, for example, access to data.
• Bibliography  – You should include a complete bibliography for the proposal.

The above draws on the advice issued by the Political and International Studies department at Warwick University.