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Examples of Student Projects

On this page you’ll find some examples of quality research dissertations from different subject areas.

 

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Edwards, Emily (2005), An investigation into the quality of coverage of cultural heritage impacts in UK Environmental Impact Assessment, Dissertation for the award of MSc in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

 This dissertation, based on mailed questionnaires and telephone interviews, uses primarily qualitative methods, has an excellent methodology chapter and includes appendices containing all research materials used by the student.

Click here to see the full report (pdf format)

 

PSYCHOSOCIAL SCIENCE
Thoday, Caitlin

 

Thoday, Caitlin (2000), Are First-Born Children Less Extravert than Later-Born Children? , Research-based project report contributing to the award of BSc in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich

This report describes the development of a questionnaire designed to test extraversion/introversion as personality dimensions. It draws on the classic work of H J Eysenck and employs quantitative methods to test the hypothesis that first-born children will score lower on a simple extraversion questionnaire than later-born children. The results are given in statistical form with bar-charts.

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Any lecturer can make available to this anthology a student dissertation that has been awarded a first-class grade and that can be said to provide a model other students can learn from.

Just contact Sarah Lodge at s.lodge@palgrave.com and:

• give us a link to the dissertation on-line,
• supply a bibliographical reference to the work and
• provide, in no more than 50 words, a brief note about the dissertation.