Our Top 25 Most Downloaded Theses

Selection of recent print theses.

Here at the David Wilson Library, University of Leicester we still have a print collection of theses.

However, we don't expect people to access the print copy in this day and age.

We make the PDF copy of a thesis openly available to download (where possible) via our Leicester Research Archive, alongside other research publications from the University. We have also digitised and made available the majority of our theses back to the 1920s.

In fact theses are the most popular and most downloaded items in the Leicester Research Archive! You would never get this many people looking at, or reading, a printed thesis!

Here's Our Top 25 Most Downloaded Theses

(For the period 01/07/2012 to 31/07/2018)

	Dept/School	Title	Author	No. Downloads
1	School of Education	Social and psychological factors in learning English as a foreign language in Lebanon.	Yazigy, Rula Jamil.	15776
2	Dept. of Media and Communication	Mass media and society: The six normative theories and the role of social, political and economic forces in shaping media institution and content: Saudi Arabia - a case study.	Al-Ahmed, Mohammed S.	14231
3	Dept. of Chemistry	Physical and Chemical Investigations of Starch Based Bio-Plastics	Abolibda, Tariq Ziyad Y.	10810
4	School of Psychology	Anxiety in high functioning children with autism	Gillott, Alinda.	7440
5	Dept. of Media and Communication	Military intervention in Nigerian politics : what has the press got to do with it?	Emenyeonu, Bernard Nnamdi.	6968
6	Centre for Labour Market Studies	The Impact of Organisational Culture on the Management of Employees’ Talents: The Case of Maltese ICT Organisations	Cutajar, Beverly	6604
7	Dept. of Economics	Financial Development, Economic Growth and Stock Market Volatility: Evidence from Nigeria and South Africa	Ndako, Umar Bida	6464
8	School of Law	From law to faith : letting go of secret trusts	Swann, Stephen James Alan.	6304
9	School of Education	Sustaining the use of ICT for Student-Centred Learning: A Case Study of Technology Leadership in a Singapore ICT-Enriched Primary School	Toh, Yancy	6281
10	Institute of Lifelong Learning	The process and outcome of Transactional Analysis psychotherapy for the treatment of depression : an adjudicated case series	Widdowson, Mark	5531
11	Centre for Labour Market Studies	The impact of Chinese culture on performance management practices in foreign firms operating in China	Wong Yuk Sun, Anthony	4905
12	MRC Toxicology Unit	Mechanisms of m-dinitrobenzene-induced selective neurotoxicity and the roles of brain glutathione	Hu, Henglong.	4780
13	School of Social Work	The situation of street children in Zimbabwe: a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)	Wakatama, Markim	4710
14	School of Education	Developing an ESP curriculum for students of health sciences through needs analysis and course evaluation in Saudi Arabia	Alfehaid, Abdulaziz Fahad T.	4604
15	Dept. of Media and Communication	Community radio as a tool for development: a case study of community radio stations in Malawi	Mhagama, Peter Matthews	4512
16	School of Historical Studies	Moated Sites in Medieval England: A Reassessment	Coveney, Natasha	4049
17	School of Education	Performance appraisal in higher education	Karkoulian, Silva	4029
18	School of Law	Buyer’s remedies under the CISG and English sales law: a comparative analysis	Agapiou, Nevi	3922
19	Dept. of English	Literary Naturalism 1865-1940 : its history, influences and legacy	Marriott, Laurence J.	3719
20	Dept. of English	Exploring literary impressionism : Conrad, Crane, James and Ford	Weavis, Daniel.	3619
21	Dept. of Engineering	The mechanical properties of leather in relation to softness	Yu, Wenge.	3523
22	Dept. of Engineering	Equivalent circuit modelling of biopolar transistors	Dowson, Monica	3437
23	School of Law	Party autonomy and enforceability of arbitration agreements and awards as the basis of arbitration	Odoe, Levi Onyeisi Wilson	3413
24	Dept. of English	Breaking the Silence: Nationalism and Feminism in Contemporary Egyptian Women’s Writing	She, Chia-Ling	2945
25	Dept. of Sociology	Gender, crime and discretion in the English criminal justice system, 1780s to 1830s	Palk, Deirdre E. P.	2905

*The Dept/School name may not reflect the current Dept/School names within the University.