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Case Study: Thesis Committees at University College, London

Alex Standen

Dr Standen is Associate Director and Associate Professor (Teaching) in the UCL Arena Centre for Research-Based Education.

A discussion of Thesis Committees and their uses at UCL

In September 2019, Thesis Committees were adopted across four UCL faculties (Medical Sciences, Life Sciences, Brain Sciences and Population Health Sciences) for all new research students.

The primary role of the committee is to support the student and Principal Supervisor throughout the doctoral programme. Specifically, the committee hears reports from the student periodically on their general academic progress and will feed back on these to the student and supervisors.

The Principal Supervisor continues as normal to supervise the student’s research project on a day-to-day basis. 

UCL’s academic manual notes the chief benefits of the approach as:

• A Thesis Committee can provide a more rounded and objective measure of a student’s performance, because at least one or two (depending on the specific format) of its members will not be directly involved in the student’s research.
• Regular meetings with a Thesis Committee can give the student valuable experience of explaining their work to an ​ “ outside” audience.
• A Thesis Committee provides the student with additional people who they know and from whom they can seek advice, independently from their Principal Supervisor.

In this video, Professor Sven Bestmann from the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology talks to Dr Alex Standen from UCL’s Arena Centre about how thesis committees have been effectively implemented in his department:

Further information:

Or contact Dr Alex Standen at: [email protected]

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Open Access theses

By Kirsty, on 31 March 2021

Among the many things that can be made Open Access; publications, data, software, and so many more, it is now increasingly more common for PhD theses to be made Open Access. This can be a great resource when you are undertaking your own PhD to get an idea of scope, structure and can be a great source of ideas.

Finding Open Access theses

UCL Library Services manages the DART-Europe service, the premier European portal for the discovery of open access research theses.  At the time of writing, this service provides access to over one million research theses from 564 Universities in 29 European countries.  It was founded in 2005 as a partnership of national and university libraries and consortia to improve global access to European research theses.  It does this by harvesting data from thesis repositories at contributing institutions, including from UCL Discovery (see below), and providing a link to at least one open access electronic copy of each thesis.  The theses themselves are located on the websites of the contributing institutions.

Users of the DART-Europe portal can search this vast database by keyword, or browse by country or institution, and view the research theses in full, without charge.  New theses are added every day, from doctoral and research masters programmes in every academic discipline.  For more information about the service, please contact the DART-Europe team .  Institutions not currently represented in the portal can view information on how to contribute to DART-Europe .

In normal times, the digitisation of doctoral theses can also be requested on an individual basis through the British Library’s e-theses online service (EThOS) .  This is a database of all UK doctoral theses held in university library collections, with links to open access copies in institutional repositories, and hosted directly in EThOS, where available.  If an electronic copy is not available, you can create an account with the service to request digitisation of the print copy: this prompts the institution where the thesis is held to find and check the print thesis, and then send it to the British Library’s facility at Boston Spa for digitisation.  Please note that this process incurs a charge (which is indicated during the requesting process) and is currently suspended due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Your thesis – UCL Discovery

Since the 2008-09 academic year, UCL students studying for doctoral and research master’s degrees have been required to submit an electronic copy of their thesis to the Library as a mandatory condition of the award of their degree.  Students are encouraged to make their theses openly available in UCL Discovery , our open access institutional repository, although in practice access can be restricted for a number of reasons if necessary.  A citation of the thesis appears in UCL Discovery even if access to the full text is restricted.

Older theses have also been digitised and added to UCL Discovery retrospectively.  The bulk of this work has been carried out as part of a specific project covering over 10,000 theses from 1990 to 2008.  This project is ongoing but mostly complete: over 7,000 digitised theses have been added to UCL Discovery during the last twelve months alone by Library Services staff who have not been able to carry out their normal work due to COVID-19 restrictions.

If you cannot access a UCL thesis which is listed online through these methods, please contact the Open Access Team , who will be able to provide advice on options for obtaining access.

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Books on the topic "SVERDLOVSK OBLAST"

Bonet, Pilar. Lord of the manor: Boris Yeltsin in Sverdlovsk Oblast' . Washington, D.C: Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1995.

Kari︠a︡kin, I. V. Ornitofauna Sverdlovskoĭ oblasti . Novosibirsk: Izdatelʹskiĭ dom "Manuskript", 1999.

Zabytye khramy Sverdlovskoĭ oblasti . Ekaterinburg: SOKRAT, 2011.

Cherni︠a︡dev, A. P. Promyshlennostʹ Sverdlovskoĭ oblasti: Spravochnik . Ekaterinburg: Sverdlovskiĭ oblastnoĭ komitet gos. statistiki, 1999.

Gredina, O. V. Atlas professiĭ Sverdlovskoĭ oblasti . Ekaterinburg: In-t razvitii︠a︡ obrazovanii︠a︡, 2011.

Kovaleva, G. A. Stimulirovanie vneshneėkonomicheskoĭ dei︠a︡telʹnosti Sverdlovskoĭ oblasti . Ekaterinburg: In-t ėkonomiki UrO RAN, 2003.

Khokhutkin, I. M. Molli︠u︡ski Sverdlovskoĭ oblasti: Atlas-spravochnik . Ekaterinburg: UrO RAN, 2000.

Mamaev, S. A. Prirodnye rezervaty Sverdlovskoĭ oblasti: Spravochnik . Ekaterinburg: Uralʹskoe otd-nie RAN, 2004.

Sukhorukov, A. M. Ugolʹnye mestorozhdenii︠a︡ i proi︠a︡vlenii︠a︡ Sverdlovskoĭ oblasti: Spravochnil . Ekaterinburg: Izd-vo OAO "Uralʹskai︢a︡ geologosʺemochnai︢a︡ ėkspedit︠s︡ii︠a︡", 1998.

Spektor, S. I. Narkomanii v Sverdlovskoĭ oblasti: Istorii︠a︡, sovremennoe sostoi︠a︡nie, prognoz . Ekaterinburg: Uralʹskiĭ universitet, 2003.

Book chapters on the topic "SVERDLOVSK OBLAST"

"Sverdlovsk Oblast." In The Republics and Regions of the Russian Federation , edited by Robert W. Orttung, Danielle N. Lussier, and Anna Paretskaya, 516–25. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315500577-72.

Crosston, Matthew. "Sverdlovsk Oblast: Protecting the Crown Kingdom." In Shadow Separatism , 79–100. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351149327-4.

"Regional Party System Formation in Russia: Vladimir Gel'man and The Deviant Case of Sverdlovsk Oblast Grigorii V. Golosov." In Party Politics in Post-communist Russia , 37–81. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203044803-3.

Conference papers on the topic "SVERDLOVSK OBLAST"

Kondratkov, Pavel V., and Alyona S. Tretyakova. "Weed activity in arable plant communities in the Central Urals (Sverdlovsk oblast)." In BDI 2020 – “Information technology in biodiversity research”. III National Scientific Conference with international participation dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Academician Pavel Gorchakovskii . Pensoft Publishers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/ap.2.e57220.

Ponomarev, Aleksandr. "TRENDS OF POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF RUSSIAN UNIVERSITY YOUTH. CASE STUDY OF SVERDLOVSK OBLAST." In 5th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS SGEM2018 . STEF92 Technology, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2018h/11/s01.014.

Avdyukova, A. E., and E. V. Bocharnikova. "Regional Aspects of Forecasting the Economic Consequences of the Spread of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Sverdlovsk Oblast." In Research Technologies of Pandemic Coronavirus Impact (RTCOV 2020) . Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201105.066.