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Essays on Cybersecurity and Information Privacy , Moez Hamedani Farokhnia

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Designing Targeted Mobile Advertising Campaigns , Kimia Keshanian

Informing Complexity: The Business Case for Managing Digital Twins of Complex Process Facilities as a Valuable Asset , William Randell McNair

Designing a Health Coach-Augmented mHealth System for the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease , Avijit Sengupta

Impact of Health IT on Practice of Medicine , Deepti Singh

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Complexities of Data, Tasks and Workflows in Health IT Management , Gaurav Jetley

Understanding the Complex Ethical Landscape of Artificial Intelligence Adoptions , Chrissann R. Ruehle

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Evaluating Conversation Agent Impact on Student Experience in a Distance Education Course , Grover Walters

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An Effectual Approach for the Development of Novel Applications on Digital Platforms , Onkar Shamrao Malgonde

Analytics for Novel Consumer Insights (A Three Essay Dissertation) , Utkarsh Shrivastava

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Essays on Crowdfunding: Exploring the Funding and Post-funding Phases and Outcomes , Onochie Fan-Osuala

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An Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Decision Framework for Building an Information Economy in Developing Countries: The Case of Palestine , Hasan Nuseibeh

Blind and Visually Impaired Users Adaptation to Web Environments: A Qualitative Study , Raneem Saqr

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Predictive Analytics of Organizational Decisions and the Role of Rationality , Arash Barfar

Analytics and Healthcare Costs (A Three Essay Dissertation) , Lina Bouayad

Information Technology & Sustainability: An Empirical Study of the Value of the Building Automation System , Daphne Marie Simmonds

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The Use and Effectiveness of Online Social Media in Volunteer Organizations , Amy J. Connolly

Inter-Organizational Social Network Information Systems: Diagnosing and Design , Matthew T. Mullarkey

Informing Systems, Interventions, and Innovations , William Francis Murphy Jr.

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Do Personality Tests have a place in Academic Preparation of Undergradute Hospitality Students , Gunce Malan

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Economic Culture and Trading Behaviors in Information Markets , Khalid Nasser Alhayyan

TagLine: Information Extraction for Semi-Structured Text Elements In Medical Progress Notes , Dezon K. Finch

Learning and Relevance in Information Retrieval: A Study in the Application of Exploration and User Knowledge to Enhance Performance , Harvey Stuart Hyman

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Contribution to and Use of Online Knowledge Repositories: The Role of Governance Mechanisms , Varol O. Kayhan

Understanding Organizational Adoption Theories Through the Adoption of a Disruptive Innovation: Five Cases of Open Source Software , Delmer Nagy

Organizational Information Markets: Conceptual Foundation and an Approach for Software Project Risk Management , Areej M. Yassin

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Social Shopping , Rebecca Anderson

Goal Attainment On Long Tail Web Sites: An Information Foraging Approach , James A. Mccart

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Privacy in Database Designs: A Role Based Approach , Gary A. Poe

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Doctoral Dissertations in Information Systems

Qualitative research in information systems: doctoral dissertations in information systems.

Section Editor: Michael D. Myers

This is a list of doctoral dissertations in Information Systems in which the author has used one or more qualitative research methods. Please note that this list contains a few suggestions only and is not intended to be comprehensive. I encourage you to search Google Scholar and/or some other bibliographic database for more dissertations.

Please send additional references and/or short abstracts of items on this page (maximum 100 words) to the Section Editor at: [email protected]

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Introduction

For doctoral students in IS looking to use one or more qualitative research methods in their PhD research it is probably advisable to look at what others have done before. I would welcome additional citations to add to the list below. This article has been translated into the Serbo-Croatian language by Jovana Milutinovich from Geeks Education .

Citations in Information Systems

Davison, R.M. “An Action Research Perspective of Group Support Systems: How to Improve Meetings in Hong Kong,” Unpublished PhD thesis, City University of Hong Kong, 1998. A web version of Davison’s PhD thesis is available .

Dhillon, G. “Interpreting the management of information system security,” unpublished Phd thesis, University of London, 1995.

The overall aim of this research is to increase understanding of the issues and concerns in the management of information systems security. The study is conducted by reviewing the analysis, design and management of computer based information systems in two large organizations – a British National Health Service Hospital Trust and a Borough Council. The research methodology adopts an interpretive mode of inquiry. The management of information systems security is evaluated in terms of the business environment, organizational culture, expectations and obligations of different roles, meanings of different actions and the related patterns of behavior. Findings from the two case studies show that an inappropriate analysis, design and management of computer based information systems affects the integrity and wholeness of an organization. As a result, the probability of occurrence of adverse events increases. In such an environment there is a strong likelihood that security measures may either be ignored or are inappropriate to the real needs of an organization. Therefore what is needed is coherence between the computer based information systems and the business environment in which they are embedded.

Hill, G. “A Framework for Valuing the Quality of Customer Information,” Unpublished thesis, the University of Melbourne, 2009.

This thesis addresses a widespread, significant and persistent problem in Information Systems practice: under-investment in the quality of customer information. Many organisations require clear financial models in order to undertake investments in their information systems and related processes. However, there are no widely accepted approaches to rigorously articulating the costs and benefits of potential quality improvements to customer information. This can result in poor quality customer information which impacts on wider organisational goals. T o address this problem, I develop and evaluate a framework for producing financial models of the costs and benefits of customer information quality interventions. These models can be used to select and prioritise from multiple candidate interventions across various customer processes and information resources, and to build a business case for the organisation to make the investment. This thesis uses critical realism as a philosophical lens for a design science research project that combines qualitative and quantitative approaches.

Kock, N.F. Jr. “The Effects of Asynchronous Groupware on Business Process Improvement.” Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Waikato, New Zealand, 1997.

This research investigates the effects of asynchronous groupware on group-based business process improvement efforts. Thirty-eight business process improvement groups were facilitated in three organisations over four iterations of the action research cycle proposed by Susman and Evered. The asynchronous groupware tool used to support these groups was an e-mail conferencing system.

Kvasny, L. “Problematizing the Digital Divide: Cultural and Social Reproduction in a Community Technology Initiative,” unpublished PhD thesis, Georgia State University, 2002.

Orlikowski, W.J. “Information technology in post- industrial organizations: An exploration of the computer-mediation of production work,” unpublished PhD thesis, Faculty of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, 1988. Per-Arne Persson. “Bringing Power and Knowledge Together: Information Systems Design for Autonomy and Control in Command Work.” Unpublished PhD thesis, Linköping Studies in Science and Technology, Dissertation No. 639, Linköpings University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden, 2000. The thesis is an ethnographic study of military command work. It analyses data produced during fieldwork in domestic command post exercises and uses two cases for a closer analysis. Social value and not only rational control thinking is what counts in command work, a kind of design work, when control artifacts such as information systems are designed. Command work is knowledge-intensive, it designs and produces symbols and becomes highly flexible, involving interpretation and negotiation of its content and products. Knowledge and power, expertise and authority, represented by experts and formal leaders, have to be brought together if the work is to be efficient. Autonomy and power become core issues, key concepts being social value, function and visibility. Actors must be visible and make their work visible. Information systems shall support work in various modes and across the organization, contributing to visibility and autonomy. It is likely that such criteria are applicable not only in military contexts but also in other kinds of managerial work.

Rose, J. “Information systems development as action research – soft systems methodology and structuration theory,” Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, 2000.

Rouse, A. C. “Information Technology Outsourcing Revisited: Success Factors and Risks,” Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2002. This thesis investigates success factors, risks and trade offs in IT outsourcing arrangements, and the impact of certain recommended practices on outsourcing success. The post-positivist research had four components: 1) a critical review of 10 years’ literature on IT outsourcing, paying particular attention to the evidence for success and the impact of practices on success; 2) a longitudinal hermeneutic study of the Australian Federal Government’s “Whole of Government” IT outsourcing initiative; 3) qualitative analysis of 16 vendor/purchaser focus groups and 4) statistical analysis of a survey of government and non-government organisations taken from the largest 1000 organisations in Australia.

Sayer, K. “A Critical Discourse on the Rhetoric of Business Process Reengineering,” unpublished doctoral dissertation, Griffith University, Brisbane, 1997.

This is an ethnographic study of the implementation of BPR in a government department in Queensland.

Sonnenwald, D.H. “Communication in Design.” Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Rutgers University, NJ, 1993.

Many design situations include users, designers, and developers who, with their own unique group and individual perspectives, need to interact so that they can come to a working understanding of how the artifact being developed will coexist with and ideally support patterns of work activities, social groups, and personal beliefs. In these situations, design is fundamentally an interactive process that requires communication among users, designers, and developers. However, communication among these groups is often difficult although of paramount importance to design outcomes. Through a qualitative analysis of a house, expert system, and telecommunications network architecture and management system design situation, a descriptive model of design that characterizes communication among users, designers, and developers as they create an artifact was developed. The model describes design phases, roles, themes, and intragroup and intergroup communication networks as they evolved throughout the design process, and characterizes design as a process of “contested collaboration.” It is a first step towards a predictive design model that suggests strategies which may help participants interact more effectively and ultimately improve the quality of design outcomes and the design process.

Wynn, E. “Office conversation as an Information Medium.” Unpublished PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1979.

Yoong, P. “A Grounded Theory of Reflective Facilitation: Making The Transition From Traditional To GSS Facilitation,” Unpublished PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1996.

Zaugg, Alexandra Daniela. “Why do Consumers Use the Internet for Complaining to the Company? Determinants Explaining the Propensity to Complain Online,” doctoral thesis, Institute of Information System Science, University of Bern, 2009.

Online complaining is said to be an efficient and convenient way of handling complaints for both customers and companies. This research project explains a customer’s propensity to complain online. In the expert interviews, the perspective of customer care managers in the Swiss telecommunications industry and scholars in the field of consumer complaining behaviour has been examined. As a second data source, 126 complaints by letter and 135 online complaints have been analysed. Moreover, a company provided a complaint statistics encompassing 5’616 complaints. Finally, seven interviews with on­line complainants have provided insights into the customer perspective.

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“There have actually been a few ‘semiotics and IS’ PhD theses completed at the London School of Economics.” (Gurpreet Dhillon). Some of these are, in alphabetical order:

Albadvi, Amir (1997). Supporting Design Understanding in Evolutionary Prototyping: An Application of Change Theory and Semiotics.

Backhouse, Jim (1991). The Use of Semantic Analysis in the Development of Information Systems.

Dhillon, Gurpreet S. (1995). Interpreting the Management of Information Systems Security.

Ilharco, Fernando M. (2002). Information Technology as Ontology: a Phenomenological Investigation into Information Technology and Strategy In-the-World.

Kitiyadisai, Krisana (1991). Relevance and Information Systems.

Lowe [Cookson], Stefanie (1993). Modelling the Development of the Use of Subject Pronouns.

Marche, M.M. (Sunny) (1991). Measuring Data Model Stability.

Straub, Bernhard (1991). Ideology and Information Systems.

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Dissertations from 2024 2024.

Investing in Remote Patient Monitoring to Improve Chronic Heart Condition Outcomes , William Olivera Serrano

Dissertations from 2023 2023

Investigating the Effectiveness of Algorithmic Interventions in Health Decision Making , Jung min Lee

Dissertations from 2022 2022

Organizational Intelligence in Digital Innovation: Evidence from Georgia State University , Khaleed M. Fuad

The Impact of Corporate Engagement in Open-Source Enterprise Systems Community on Release Performance , Peiwei Li

Essays on IT and Platform Governance from External Stakeholder Perspectives , Junyoung Park

Deciding to Fail: Three Essays about Self-Interest in Systems , Pengcheng Wang

Investigating Decentralization, Incentives, and Configurations of Blockchain Governance , Rongen Zhang

Dissertations from 2021 2021

Decision-Making Dilemma in Human-Automation Interaction: Who Should Grasp Authority, Human or Intelligent Systems? , Xiaocong Cui

Empirical Essays on Crowd-based Digital Platforms and Product Innovation Performance , Heeseung Lee

Collective Attention Allocation for Innovation Productivity in Open-Source Software Projects: A Configurational Perspective , Yanran Liu

Network Effects and Decentralized Governance in Public Blockchain Ecosystems , Yukun Yang

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Managing Technical Debt in Agile Software Development Projects , Maheshwar Boodraj

Essays on Motivations and Motivational Affordances in the Context of Health Information Technology , Hyoungyong Choi

Technical and Behavioral Interventions for Medication Adherence through Mobile Health , Xinying Liu

Conversational AI Agents: Investigating AI-Specific Characteristics that Induce Anthropomorphism and Trust in Human-AI Interaction , Kambiz Saffarizadeh

Dissertations from 2019 2019

Explaining the Privacy Paradox through Identifying Boundary Conditions of the Relationship between Privacy Concerns and Disclosure Behaviors , Tawfiq Alashoor

Unravelling the Influence of Online Social Context on Consumer Health Information Technology (CHIT) Implementations , Amrita George

Essays on Technology in Presence of Globalization , Joshua Madden

Three Essays on Digital Innovation from an Intellectual Property Rights Perspective , Zhitao Yin

Dissertations from 2018 2018

A "Practice-Based" Theory of the Firm: A Practice Theory Perspective to Organizational Strategy Development and Knowledge Management , Sayed Mahdi Almohri

Extracting Business Value of IT and Identifying IT Innovation in Large Institutional Settings Undergoing Regulatory Change , Jessica Pye

Three Empirical Essays on Health Informatics and Analytics , Youyou Tao

Classification And Analysis Of Mobile Health Evaluation Through Taxonomy and Method Development , Alan T. Yang

Dissertations from 2017 2017

Integrating online-offline interactions to explain societal challenges , Christine Abdalla Mikhaeil

Dissertations from 2016 2016

Managing Enterprise Systems Post Implementation through Competency Centers: An Inquiry into Assemblage and Emergence , Arun Aryal

Essays on Health Information Technology: Insights from Analyses of Big Datasets , Langtao Chen

Three Essays on the Empowerment Role of Information Technology in Healthcare Services , Liwei Chen

Towards a Better Comprehension of Adaptation to Information and Communication Technologies: A Multi-level Approach , Najma Saidani

Smart Interventions for Effective Medication Adherence , Neetu Singh

Dissertations from 2015 2015

An Event-based Analysis Framework for Open Source Software Development Projects , Tianjie Deng

Affect and Decision Making in Troubled Information Technology Projects , Hyung Koo Lee

Risks, Controls and Business Value of IT-Enabled Interfirm and Intrafirm Processes , Chaitanya Sambhara

Dissertations from 2014 2014

Traveling of Requirements in the Development of Packaged Software: An Investigation of Work Design and Uncertainty , Thomas Gregory

Genres of Inquiry in Design Science Research: Applying Search Conference to Contemporary Information Systems Security Theory , Mala Kaul

The Role of Regret and Its Applications in IS Decision Making , EunHee Park

New Perspectives on Implementing Health Information Technology , Sumantra Sarkar

Dissertations from 2013 2013

An Investigation of the Relationships between Goals and Software Project Escalation: Insights from Goal Setting and Goal Orientation Theories , Jong Seok Lee

The Impact of IT-Enabled and Team Relational Coordination on Patient Satisfaction , Darryl S. Romanow

Dissertations from 2012 2012

Knowledge Worker Behavioral Responses and Job Outcomes in Mandatory Enterprise System Use Contexts , Robert Hornyak

The Management of Distance in Distributed-work , Chauvet Mathieu

Realizing Shared Services - A Punctuated Process Analysis of a Public IT Department , Tim Olsen

A Requirements-Based Exploration of Open-Source Software Development Projects – Towards a Natural Language Processing Software Analysis Framework , Radu Vlas

Dissertations from 2011 2011

Health Information Systems Affordances: How the Materiality of Information Technology Enables and Constrains the Work Practices of Clinicians , Chad Anderson

Towards Information Polycentricity Theory: Investigation of a Hospital Revenue Cycle , Rajendra Singh

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Finding and Managing Information for Your Dissertation: 5. Where to search

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There are a range of specialist databases to access.

Our recommendation for dissertations is that you always use  more than one database  for retrieving sources. Ideally, one general database and one more specific subject database will provide a good spread of relevant sources.

While there may be overlap in the references found in different databases, all databases will contain some references which are unique as all have their particular focus and can vary in geographical coverage and date range.

Examples of where to search

• The Library's databases
• Book searches via Primo
• Articles Search via Primo
• A-Z E-resources
• Aberystwyth Research Portal
• WHELF Search
• Subject Guides
• Google Scholar

In the main you will use the Library's research databases.

The databases allow you to search through millions of journal articles, book chapters and book reviews, reports and proceedings, theses, etc., at one time.

No two databases have exactly the same content so you should search several databases to ensure you don't miss a key paper on your topic. Take a look through the following tabs and the box opposite to find out more on where to search for material.

Libraries  (the default search) finds

• physical items in campus libraries: books, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, DVDs, CDs, dictionaries, atlases
• e-books, e-journals and other electronic information sources to which AU subscribes

Primo FAQs:  https://faqs.aber.ac.uk/index.php?search=primo

Articles search via Primo

Journals and journal articles provide important sources of academic information.  Articles  does a fast search of many journal articles from participating publishers and returns results with full-text online.

You can search for  ​ ​journal articles using the  ​ Articles search   ​in Primo.

• How do I find the full text of articles in journals I have found in Primo or elsewhere?
• How do I find full-text articles in Primo Articles?

Available via Primo, you will find links to a wide variety of online information resources which AU students and staff have access to via an AU Library subscription or purchase, plus a small selection of high-quality, freely-available content.

These are links to an alphabet list of links to electronic information resources that Aberystwyth University subscribes to. The page detects whether you are on campus or not and provides off-campus advice accordingly. Resources selected by subject are available on the  subject information pages .

• An A-Z list of all databases the Library gives you access to. If you are researching a multi-disciplinary topic, you are recommended to start identifying your databases from Resources A-Z.
• How do I find full-text articles using bibliographic databases?  

You can search and find the Aberystwyth Research Portal via Prim o  for AU higher degree theses and research located in the Pure research repository. If you prefer, you can visit the  Aberystwyth Research Portal  and search it directly.

The Aberystwyth Research Portal makes the very best of Aberystwyth University's staff and postgraduate research openly available online, free o f charge.

Content in the portal includes published outputs, postgraduate theses, project details, as well as records for other esteem activities.

The portal also includes personal profiles of all current staff and research students.

This allows browsers of the Portal to view on one page all related  research content  linked to that person. Browsing is also possible by department.

You can search the Aberystwyth Research Portal for theses either in the general search box or by browsing the postgraduate publications community. Aberystwyth Research Portal records do not necessarily provide full text access, for theses, this might be because a thesis has a temporary embargo on open access (embargo conditions and date of availability can be found by clicking on 'Show Full Item Record'), or a permanent embargo due to issues of copyright or sensitive information, for example.

A  WHELF Search  via Primo returns results from  WHELF  member library catalogues that includes all the higher education institutions in Wales along with the National Library of Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales, Natural Resources Wales and the Open University in Wales.

Your one-stop-shop for your subject. The subject guides will help you find further information, suggestions for websites, organisations and databases that are relevant for your subject area.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar can be a good place to start your search but it does not allow for the advanced or complex searching you can do in the Library's research databases.

Access e-resources using Google Scholar 

Google Scholar may not provide access to full-text, however, by linking to the Library you can access full-text where there is a University subscription. 

• Selecting Settings from the top of the Google Scholar Home Page
• Selecting Library Links
• Search for Aberystwyth University. Select it from the list and Save your settings

You will now see FindIt@Aber links next to items in your Google Scholar results that you can use to access the full-text.

Open Access resources

• Finding Open Access resources
• Open Access tools
• Other Open Access collections

• Libkey Nomad LibKey Nomad is another browser extension that automatically provides links to full-text content of articles as you undertake research on the web and come across literature. Once the extension is installed, whenever you come across a journal article outside of the library catalogue, LibKey Nomad will inform you if the article is available through the library's subscriptions, or if there is an open access copy available through a banner alert at the bottom of the page.
• Open Access Button This is a free, open source tool that can be used online via the website or as a browser extension for Chrome or Firefox. If you’re online, just enter an article URL, DOI, PMID ID, Title or Citation. Again, also searchable on its own website.
• EndNote Click EndNote Click is a free, easy-to-use browser plugin that helps with accessing full-text journal articles by bringing Library subscriptions and open access content within one-click. You will need to create an account.
• Unpaywall Unpaywall is a light-weight browser extension to access open versions of articles with a single click. Whenever you visit a journal article's landing page, Unpaywall automatically searches for open access versions of the article. A tab appears on the right side of your screen to let you know Unpaywall is working.
• Google Scholar Google Scholar is a multidisciplinary database which allows a researcher to search for full-text versions of academic papers. It also identifies Aberystwyth subscribed resources and allows for direct on-campus access, or off-campus sign-on.
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) Provides access to high quality, peer-reviewed, open access journals covering most subject areas.
• DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) Almost 30,000 academic peer-reviewed books in the humanities, sciences and social sciences
• Project Gutenberg Over 60,000 free e-books of mostly older literary works published before 1924.
• EThOS (Electronic Theses Online) (This service is currently unavailable) The British Library harvests doctoral theses from UK university repositories and makes this single collection searchable online; tick "Limit search to items available for immediate download" to see only Open Access items. You will need to register an account.

Material not available in the library?

Many of the books and papers which you select for use in your dissertation will either be available in the AU libraries or be directly linkable online through our AU Library e-subscriptions.

If neither print nor online versions of a book or paper are available through Primo, including where the article is hidden behind a paywall, please use the following alternative methods of supply:

• If the item(s) you require is held neither with the AU Libraries or at the National Library of Wales, use the  Document Supply service.
• You can find more information about the service and how to make requests by visiting the  Document Supply webpage . 
• Details of the holdings available for reference at the National Library of Wales can be found at   NLW Catalogue (library.wales)  webpage.
• Registration for visiting the National Library of Wales and viewing its materials is mandatory.
• Registration forms can be found in  English  and  Welsh  on the  NLW website .

Examples of where to look

For more examples of where to search, check out the LibGuides . 

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Glisson, W.B. and Chowdhury, G. ( 2002 ) Design of a digital dissertation information management system. Program , 36 (3). pp. 152-165. ISSN 0033-0337 ( https://doi.org/10.1108/00330330210440449 )

This paper describes a prototype dissertation information system. The various components of the system include the database, the information retrieval engine, dynamic Webpages via markup languages, and client side Java Scripts.Managerial and information retrieval issues associated with a digital dissertation information system arediscussed and the database configurations and codeswritten for performing various operations online are described. The paper ends with a discussion of the projectresults and future developmental opportunities.

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Published by Owen Ingram at August 11th, 2021 , Revised On September 20, 2023

Dissertation Abstract – Definition

The abstract is regarded as the foremost component of a dissertation. It will be your first chance to set precise expectations for the supervisor, examiner or graduate committee members. An abstract for a dissertation is the first real significant narrative of your work and is placed at the beginning of the dissertation paper.

Presented in a shortened form, an abstract is a very brief overview of your research .

In this article, we will uncover every piece of information you need to know to write an abstract.  

According to the online archives of Simon Fraser University research database, “an abstract is not merely an introduction in the sense of a preface, preamble, or advance organizer that prepares the reader for the thesis. In addition to that function, it must be capable of substituting for the whole thesis when there are insufficient time and space for the full text. ”

Do I Need to Write an Abstract?

You will be required to include an abstract at the beginning of your paper if you are working on your thesis, dissertation, research paper, or publishing a paper in any academic journal.

Even though the abstract appears right at the start of a dissertation paper, it is generally written at last. For it is only after you have compiled all the evidence and data, interpreted every piece of finding, backed your interpretation(s) with enough theoretical evidence and answered your research questions, that you can sum it all up in 150-200 words. The general length of an abstract.

 The table of contents is the section that immediately follows an abstract. Here is a guide on how to create a table of contents for the dissertation .

Your abstract should be an  entirely autonomous and independent text and never be an extract taken from within the paper’s original content. This also implies, indirectly, that it is unethical in research contexts to copy-paste chunks from within your own research in an abstract.

In particular, an abstract aims to provide an overview of research aim and objectives, methods of research employed, results obtained, findings, most salient interpretation(s), the conclusion and implication(s) of your research. Readers should be able to completely understand all aspects of your research work just by reading your abstract.

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How to Write a Dissertation Abstract

A dissertation abstract serves as a deal maker or breaker when it comes to making a strong impression on your readers. Your dissertation abstract can either motivate your readers to continue reading or discourage them from  moving on to the next chapters .

The abstract of a dissertation needs to be conspicuous, meaningful, interesting and of course, informative. It should contain brief but relevant information from all chapters of your dissertation to provide a brief overview of the research that has been conducted. This would mean its:

• What (topic statement of your research)
• Who (the sample)
• Why (the significance/objectives/aims/questions/hypothesis of your research)
• Where (the background/setting of your research)
• And how (the research design/tools/methods/methodologies etc. of your research)

 Here, we have put together some guidelines for students to understand how to write an abstract for a dissertation to make a great first impression on readers.

Key Components of a Dissertation Abstract

The  key elements of a dissertation abstract are as follows:

• Background statement/problem statement/thesis statement
• Information regarding research sample
• Methods of research employed
• A brief description of the results obtained and their interpretation (only the most important one(s))
• A summary of conclusion, limitations and future recommendations/implications (only the most salient ones)

1. Background/Problem Statement/Aims and Objectives

The first couple of sentences of your dissertation abstract should provide a summary of the purpose of your research. This can be expressed as follows:

• Background statement – Provide a brief perspective on the theoretical and practical significance of your work.
• The problem statement clearly communicates to the readers why there was a need to research the chosen topic.
• Present an overview of the research’s aim and objectives to establish what your research intended to achieve.
• Thesis statement – what is the main idea of your dissertation paper? What are your claims in reference to the established research questions?

Avoid writing this part of the abstract in future tense because it refers to concluded actions.

• This study will investigate the relationship between coffee consumption and productivity.
• This study investigates the relationship between coffee consumption and productivity.

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This one-to-two lined section will give information about who the sample in your study was; where they are located/residing, etc. The reasons for selecting that group of participants, for instance, is not relevant for mention in an abstract.

3. Research Methods

Briefly specify your  dissertation research methodology immediately after stating the purpose and sample of your dissertation paper. Here, you will be expected to summarise how you straightforwardly conducted your research.

Like the first section, a description of research  methods should also be written in the simple past tense. There is absolutely  no need to highlight the limitations and/or validity  of your research methods here.

The goal is to take the readers through the overall approach and process quickly.

4. Research Findings

Provide a brief overview of the major  findings of your dissertation study . If you think you undiscovered multiple major findings, only mention the ones that directly answer a research question or two that was/were part of your study to begin with. For instance, if you studied the relation between two variables and your findings indicate it’s a positive correlation, you simply state that finding, not the other, minor ones related to this specific one.

This section is the crux of your abstract, so make sure you demonstrate how your research addressed the research objectives.

Furthermore, due to the word limit (150-200) of the abstract and the complexity of your research, you might not be able to include all results here. If that is the case, have only the most significant results.

This portion should be written in the past simple or present tense. Here is an example:

• Analysis of the responses has shown that there is a strong correlation between consumption and productivity.
• Analysis of the responses shows there is a strong correlation between coffee consumption and productivity.
• Analysis of the responses showed there was a strong correlation between coffee consumption and productivity.

5. Conclusion and Recommendation/Implication

Lastly, the  abstract of a dissertation  should  conclude your dissertation research . The conclusion should clearly report how your study addressed the research problem.

Use this part of the abstract to convince people how your research proved the argument or theory your research was built on and started off with.

Provide recommendations for practical implementation to clearly understand your audience how your work will solve the problem at hand.

Finally, do not forget to mention important research limitations briefly. For example, selecting a smaller sample size due to some constraints would be a limitation worth mentioning. This will add more weight and credibility to your research.

Make use of the present simple test when writing the conclusion.

Some institutions, however, dictate that you write one or two lines about the long- or short-term implications your research might have. This component would be the last one in an abstract, preceded by the conclusive statement.

Abstract keywords/phrases 

You might be asked to include important key terms and phrases at the end of the abstract, especially if your paper has been selected for publication in an academic journal.

These keywords help potential readers find your paper in search engines during their  desk-based research .

However, it should be noted that some academic journals have their own specific formatting requirements for keywords. It’s recommended that you read the requirements about keywords in their publication manuals to avoid any misunderstanding.

More on Abstract keywords

According to Hartley and Kostoff (2003), following are some different methods for supplying keywords for an abstract:

Researchers “supply them with no restrictions on the numbers allowed; supply up to a fixed number (e.g. six); supply key words as appropriate from a specified list; editors supplement/amend authors’ key words; editors supply key words; editors supply key words from a specified list; referees supply key words from a specified list; keywords are allocated according to the ‘house-rules’ applied to all journals; distributed by a specific publisher; keywords are determined by computer program at proof stage”.

Format of a Dissertation Abstract

The typical size of an abstract for a masters’ dissertation is 300-400 words whereas abstracts for undergraduate dissertation papers are 150-200 words in size.

Since their findings are generally more in number, abstracts for PhD-level dissertation papers are assigned 300-350 words. The dissertation abstract structure should be such that there are one or two sentences assigned to each chapter of the dissertation.

For example, if your dissertation paper has 5 chapters, there should be a minimum of 8-10 sentences in the abstract to provide a reflective summary of each chapter’s information.

As is the case  with the dissertation introduction chapter , you will be expected to specify the research questions clearly.

You might need to rearrange them and/or reduce the word count without missing out on any important element, considering there is room for only two to three research questions generally placed at the beginning of the abstract.

  Poor dissertation abstracts don’t present the findings of the research. It is important to recognize that the readers of your dissertation paper will be more interested in what findings you came up with as a result of your research and not merely what you did. Use at least 2 to 3 sentences for summarising the results and their interpretation.

Look for the formatting requirements in your dissertation handbook or writing guidelines provided by your school. Make sure to stay within the permissible word limit.  An abstract too long or too short will not serve the purpose.

Tips on How to Write the Abstract for Dissertation

Condensing your entire dissertation into just a few sentences can be a daunting task, especially if it’s your first time writing a dissertation abstract.

It is important to get your dissertation abstract right because this part of the dissertation paper is the first real piece of written description that your audience will read. You can even recall some of your own experiences where, due to shortage of time or many deadlines looming above your head, you had to skim and scam the abstract of a research article or journal paper you stumbled across. It probably gave you a good enough idea whether it was worth it to bookmark that paper to read fully later now, didn’t it?

That’s exactly the kind of effect your own abstract should have on its readers, too. It’s meant to give a holistic view of the entire research.

Here are some tips for you to make sure you write this part to the highest possible academic quality:

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Tip #1: Avoid Citing Publications

Student researchers often get carried away with the research of professional researchers when writing an abstract. Avoid focusing on others’ work and demonstrate how your own research will substantially contribute to your area of study.

Depending on the allowable word limit for the abstract, you might be able to squeeze in a sentence or two about the scholarly background of the research problem you wish to address. Still, there is no need to cite any publications.

Tip #2: Be Concise and to-the-point

Your dissertation abstract should be attention-grabbing, even though you will have only a few hundred words to work with. So. it is crucial to communicate your research work in the most concise manner.  Never stuff your dissertation abstract with needless words and avoid vague verbiage that might put your readers off-track.

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Tip # 3: Read Sample Abstracts

Learn the art of writing great dissertation abstract by reading abstract dissertation samples. It would make sense to look at how other people in your academic subject have written their abstracts.

If you have already conducted your  dissertation literature review , you might have already read many research paper abstracts – which you could use to get useful insights into how to format your dissertation abstract. Here is an abstract dissertation example to help you get started.

Tip #4: Coverage and Presentation

Remember, an abstract is one single paragraph. There are no breaks in it. It continues as a single body. Furthermore, it is written in a separate page. No other chapter or sub-headings etc. come before or after the abstract on the same page. There are also no headings – such as the topic of your research – above the title ‘Abstract’ on the abstract page. Simply give the heading of ‘Abstract’ and start it off from there. And last but not the least, another important thing to keep in mind is that abstract (pretty much like the rest of your thesis) will be double-spaced.

Tip #5: Language

Other researchers will look for key terms specific to your research field to figure out the purpose and nature of your dissertation paper. Make sure to include relevant terminology necessary for understanding your abstract and thereby determining what the research was about.

Tip #6: Shortening a Lengthy Abstract

It’s natural to sometimes get carried away while writing…even in academic writing. As Trochim and other writers state in their book, Research Methods: The Essential Knowledge Base , “In order to shorten your abstract, you should eliminate nonessential information wherever possible—this includes transitions phrases (e.g., ‘the results demonstrate . . .’).”

Can I use an excerpt from the paper as an abstract?

No, you should not. It is important for an abstract to be an entirely autonomous and independent text and never be an extract taken from within the paper’s original content. Write it in your own words, 

What is the purpose of an abstract?

The abstract of your dissertation provides a brief overview of the research conducted and the results obtained.

What should a dissertation abstract contain?

The abstract of your dissertation must give background information, mention the problem statement , research aims , and objectives, sample information, methods of research , the findings , conclusion and recommendations/implications.

Can I cite a reference in the abstract?

No, you must never cite any reference in the abstract.

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