Master's and Doctoral Research

Many doctoral and Master’s students complete their studies successfully in the Department of Information Science. The following list provides the names of these students since 2015, together with the title of their theses/dissertations, the year they completed their studies and the names of their supervisors. There are more in earlier years that we will not list here. The abstract provides an overview of the research. A link is added to the full text of each thesis/dissertation in the University’s open-access repository. It is therefore feasible to download the full thesis or dissertation without any costs. Mini-dissertations are not included in the list.

The list serves a number of purposes:

• We would like to showcase the achievements of our students, because we are justifiably proud of their successes, and we would like to highlight these milestones in their lives.
• It provides a good overview of recent postgraduate research and research topics in the Department.
• It could form a useful source of information for prospective Master’s and Doctoral students:
  • Prospective students can see what the research foci of different supervisors are, to enable them to approach a potential supervisor.
  • Prospective students are encouraged to download and read the full text of theses or dissertations within their own field of interest and specialisation, in order to obtain an overview of the nature of such research:
    • The typical structure, content and length of a thesis or dissertation;
    • The nature of literature reviews and analyses.
    • Formulation of research questions and sub-questions;
    • Details about research methodologies and their application;
    • Data collection and analyses;
    • How research questions and sub-questions can typically be answered;
    • Contributions to theory and the creation of models and frameworks;
    • formal aspects such as layout and referencing techniques.

Doctoral Theses