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Nearly all University of Leicester theses have been digitised and made available open access on the Leicester Research Archive (LRA) via Figshare. Some theses have an embargo, meaning you cannot read the full text of those theses, and there is a small number of historical theses that are only available in print in the library. Browsing Theses on the LRA Go to  Figshare Leicester Research Archive . Click on Groups. Choose University of Leicester Theses This will default to showing you the most recently uploaded theses. Browsing Theses by Department/School Please note this will only work for theses uploaded prior to October 2019. For newer theses please browse the Theses collection (as above) or search the archive (as below). Go to  Figshare Leicester Research Archive . Click on ‘search’. On the left hand side there are filters. Go to ‘Item type’ and filter by ‘thesis’. A list of theses will appear on the centre of the screen. To search for theses from your discip...

New Open Access University of Leicester Theses added to the Leicester Research Archive (Figshare) in July 2021: Patrick, Kieran (2021): The Zinc Finger Protein Nolz1 is Required for Striatal Development and Axon Guidance of Forebrain Tracts. University of Leicester. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.14896815.v1 Ng, King-sau (2021): Emotional politics: the exploration of an occupy movement in Hong Kong. University of Leicester. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.14931774.v1   Newbould, Robert (2021): Macroplastic Debris Transfer in Rivers: A Travel Distance Approach. University of Leicester. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.14931807.v1   Hebbes, Christopher (2021): The immunomodulatory effects of nociceptin – development and validation of a biosensor assay. University of Leicester. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.14931828.v1 Nazir, Sheraz Ahmed (2021): Assessment of myocardial injury using 3T MRI and potential attenuatio...

 EThOs - e-theses online service A free database provided by the British Library which searches over 500,000 UK Doctoral Theses, including those from the University of Leicester. Conduct your search. Search results with a green open padlock symbol mean that the full text of the thesis is available for free download. Click on the result you are interested in. You should then see more details about the thesis, including an abstract. You might be given more than one option for downloading the full text PDF of the thesis - either from EThOS or from the Institution that awarded the PhD. In order to download from EThOS you need to create a free EThOS account. Not all theses included in EThOS are available as full text PDFs. Some will have restricted access and some may not have been digitised. Those with restricted access will have a brown dotted padlock symbol next to them and those that have not been digitised will have no padlock symbol. Click on a result for more details. You will cu...

Finding University of Leicester Theses Browse the theses in your Department If you want to look at previous theses within your Department or subject then choose the 'Research Archive' search on the library homepage and search on 'your department theses' e.g. geography theses: This will open the Leicester Research Archive - scroll down and you will see the Theses Collection for the Department: You can then browse the theses: If you would like to read or download a particular thesis - click on the link and scroll down to the PDF option: You will then be able to read or download the thesis unless it has an embargo in place, in which case the record will state there is an embargo: Search by keyword or author Go to the Leicester Research Archive homepage:  https://lra.le.ac.uk/ Use the search box in the top right hand corner. Finding UK Theses Try searching: EThOS - Electronic Theses Online System  which is availa...

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 ...