DISSERTATIONS LOCATION LIST
A guide to the location of dissertations or theses submitted for degrees or diplomas at
Oxford Brookes University
MPhil and PhD theses
All MPhil/PhD theses are kept in the University libraries; the majority of these are held at Headington, but those
for subjects based at Wheatley (e.g. Business and Computing) or Harcourt Hill (e.g. Education and Theology)
are kept at those libraries.
They are all indexed on the Library Catalogue.
A number of Brookes PhD theses are now available online via the British Library EThOS service. You can check to see if a thesis is available
for download from http://ethos.bl.uk
MSc, MA, undergraduate and all other dissertations
Please consult the remainder of this guide, which is arranged by subject.
NB/LS October 2015
SUBJECT
DEGREE/DIPLOMA
LOCATION
Anthropology
Undergraduate
Gibbs 1.03
Architecture
BA/major studies
Automotive Engineering
Biology/Biotechnology
BEng/MEng
BSc/MSc
Resources Centre
(AB215)
Wheatley Library store
Department
Biomedical Science
BSc/MSc
Department
Business
Cell & Molecular Biology
BA/MBA/MA/MSc
BSc
Wheatley Library Store
Department
Coaching and Mentoring
Studies
Communication Networks
MA
Wheatley Library store
BSc
Wheatley Library Store
Communication, Media
and Culture
Computer Science
Construction Management
BA
Harcourt Hill Library
BSc/MSc
BSc
Creative Writing
MA
Wheatley Library store
Resources Centre
(AB215)
Department
Development and
Emergency Practice
Early Childhood Studies
MA
BA
Resources Centre
(AB215)
Department
Early Childhood Studies
MA
Harcourt Hill Library
AVAILABILITY FOR
CONSULTATION
Ask in Programme
Administrator’s Office.
Students can take up to
5 dissertations to G1.02, the
collaborative learning space (with
student card as deposit).
Yes: Mon/Wed/Fri 10-2pm
Yes – see Library staff
Request via dissertation
supervisor or personal tutor
Request via dissertation
supervisor or personal tutor
Yes – see Library Staff
Request via dissertation
supervisor or personal tutor
Yes – ask at Wheatley Library
counter
Yes – ask at Wheatley Library
counter
Yes – selected titles on Short
Loan – see Library staff
Yes – see Library staff
Yes: Mon/Wed/Fri 10-2pm
Yes – contact Carly Collier
(Administrator)
Yes: Mon/Wed/Fri 10-2pm
INDEX
Local index
Library catalogue
Library catalogue
Library catalogue
Library catalogue
Printed list
Google doc
Apply to Mrs Gill Cross,
Programme Administrators' Office
(BG20), Harcourt Hill
(gcross@brookes.ac.uk, x8388)
Yes
Library catalogue
SUBJECT
Economics see Business
Education Studies
DEGREE/DIPLOMA
LOCATION
AVAILABILITY FOR
CONSULTATION
INDEX
BA
Department
Education
Electrical/Electronic
Engineering
Electronics
MA/MEd
BEng
Harcourt Hill Library
Wheatley Library store
Apply to Mrs Gill Cross,
Programme Administrator's Office
(BG20), Harcourt Hill
(gcross@brookes.ac.uk x8388)
Yes – see Library staff
Library catalogue
Yes – apply to Library staff
Library catalogue
BSc
Department
Yes - limited
Energy Efficient Building
MSc
Resources Centre
(AB215)
Yes: Mon/Wed/Fri 10-2pm
English
English
BA
MA
English Language and
Communication
BA
Department
Distinction dissertations in
Library
School of Education –
Academic staff
Environmental
Assessment and
Management
Environmental Biology
MSc
Headington Library
BSc
Department
Environmental
Management and
Technology
Environmental Sciences
MSc
Headington Library
BSc
Department
Request via dissertation
supervisor or personal tutor
Equine Science
BSc
Department
Fine Art
BA
School of Arts
Request via dissertation
supervisor or personal tutor
Apply to principal lecturers in
Fine Art
Yes
Yes – some titles available on
Moodle within the
module U70099 – otherwise
contact Programme Leader
Yes
Request via dissertation
supervisor or personal tutor
Yes
Library catalogue
and printed list
Library catalogue
and printed list
Library catalogue
and printed list
Card index (by
name)
SUBJECT
DEGREE/DIPLOMA
LOCATION
AVAILABILITY FOR
CONSULTATION
French
BA
Tonge Building
Geography
BA
Gibbs 1.03
Health Care
MSc
Headington Library
Apply to Field Chair, who is
responsible for keeping a sample
Apply to Programme
Administrator - Adam Smallbone
G1.03 (x4288)
asmallbone@brookes.ac.uk
Yes
Health Care Studies
BA/Undergraduate
Marston Rd (PAC Office)
Yes
Historic Conservation
History
MSc
Undergraduate
Course Director’s office
Tonge Building
Yes
Apply to Programme
Administrators – T302
(x4220) Tracey Glenister
tglenister@brookes.ac.uk
Poppy Hoole
phoole@brookes.ac.uk
Email to arrange visit would be
preferred. Student card required
as deposit.
Request via dissertation
supervisor or academic advisor
Apply to Programme
Administrators – T302
(x4220) Tracey Glenister
tglenister@brookes.ac.uk
Poppy Hoole
phoole@brookes.ac.uk
Email to arrange visit would be
preferred. Student card required
as deposit.
Apply to Fran Buller
(Departmental Office)
History/History of Medicine MA
Tonge Building
History of Art
BA
Tonge Building
Hospitality
Undergraduate
Ox Schl of Hospitality
Management
INDEX
Library catalogue
and printed list
SUBJECT
DEGREE/DIPLOMA
LOCATION
AVAILABILITY FOR
CONSULTATION
INDEX
Hospitality
Human Biology/Exercise
and Health
MSc (60% and over)
BSc
Headington Library
Department
Yes
Request via dissertation
supervisor or personal tutor
Library catalogue
Humanities
NB: Course no longer
running in this 'format'
MA
Yes
Library catalogue
and printed list
International Relations
BA & MA
A small selection of
exemplary dissertations
kept at Headington
Library.
Student Collaborative
Working Space Gibbs 1.02
Japanese
BA
Tonge Building
Law
LLB u/g (single & joint);
Law
LLM p/g int’l law
Gibbs 1.03 – 9am – 5pm
only
Gibbs 1.03 – 9am-5pm
only
Management see Business
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Media Technologies
Mobile and Wireless
Communications
BSc
BEng/MEng
BSc/MSc
MSc
Wheatley Library Store
Wheatley Library Store
Wheatley Library store
Department of Computing
Motorsport Engineering
Music
BEng/MSc
BA/BSc/MA
Nursing/Midwifery
BA/BSc
Wheatley Library store
Currently (Aug 12) not
available
Marston Road, PAC Office
Adult Nursing – see note
in ‘Index’ column
OR with Module Leader
(via Programme
Administrator)
Ask in Programme
Administrator’s Office, G1.03
(x3750)
Apply to Field Chair, who is
responsible for keeping a sample
Contact Adam Smallbone (x4931,
asmallbone@brookes.ac.uk)
Contact Adrienn Nagy (x4901,
anagy@brookes.ac.uk)
Yes – see library staff
Yes- see Library staff
Yes – see Library staff
Very limited. Students should
apply to their project supervisor
for access
Yes – see Library staff
Library catalogue
Library catalogue
Library catalogue
Yes
Adult Nursing
dissn’s are now
available
electronically on
the Dissertation
Moodle site
Library catalogue
SUBJECT
DEGREE/DIPLOMA
LOCATION
Nutrition/Food Science
BSc/MSc
Department
Occupational Therapy
BSc
Marston Rd, PAC Office
Osteopathy
Philosophy
BSc
BA
Physiotherapy
BSc
Res Lab, Marston Rd
Department of History,
Philosophy and Religion
Archive Room
Marston Rd, Skills Lab
Planning/Spatial Planning
BA /MSc
Politics
BA
Primate Conservation
MSc
Project Management BE
MSc
Psychology
Public Health
BSc/BA/selection of p/g
MSc
Publishing
Undergraduate/Diploma/
MA
Real Estate Management
Religion and Theology
BSc (NB: MSc students
no longer do diss’n)
Undergraduate and
Distance Learning
Headington Library
EXCEPT for BA Planning
2008 onwards are in
Resources Centre
(AB215)
Student Collaborative
Working Space Gibbs 1.02
Primate Lab
Resources Centre
(AB215)
Department
Academic Liaison
Librarians’ Office
Distinction diss'ns/major
projects in Library & also
those on African theme.
All others in Resources
Centre AB215
Resources Centre
(AB215)
Department of History,
Philosophy and Religion
Archive Room
AVAILABILITY FOR
CONSULTATION
Request via dissertation
supervisor/personal tutor
Yes, contact programme
administrator
Contact supervisor
Yes – contact Programme
Administrator
Contact Dissertation Module
leader
Yes
Ask in Programme
Administrator’s Office (x3750)
Available for consultation (some
also available on the course U
drive).
Yes: Mon/Wed/Fri 10-2pm
To view, email
healthcarelibrarians@brookes.ac.
uk
Yes
INDEX
Yes
No
Library catalogue
and printed lists
List available.
Google doc
Library catalogue
Library catalogue
and printed lists.
(NB: Resources Centre open
Mon/Wed/Fri 10-2pm)
Yes: Mon/Wed/Fri 10-2pm
Yes – contact Programme
Administrator
Printed list
DEGREE/DIPLOMA
SUBJECT
LOCATION
Social Work
BA
Marston Rd, PAC Office
Sociology
BA
Spanish
Undergraduate
Student Collaborative
Working Space Gibbs 1.02
Tonge Building
Sport & Exercise Science
BSc/MSc
Department
Sport, Coaching and
Physical Education
Sustainable Building
BSc
Technology Management
Theology
Tourism
BSc
MA
Undergraduate
Urban Design
MA
Department of Sports and
Health Sciences
Resources Centre
(AB215)
Department
Harcourt Hill Library
Ox Schl of Hospitality
Management
Resources Centre
(AB215)
MSc
AVAILABILITY FOR
CONSULTATION
INDEX
Yes, contact Programme
No
Administrator
Ask in Programme
Administrator’s Office (x3750)
Apply to Field Chair, who has a
sample
Request via dissertation
supervisor or personal tutor
Yes – contact Programme Leader
Yes: Mon/Wed/Fri 10am-2pm
Yes - limited
Yes – see Library staff
Apply to Fran Buller
(Departmental Office)
Yes: Mon/Wed/Fri 10-2pm
Library catalogue