There is a lot of variety where the TBP is concerned. The answers to what a TBP is may be found in explicit policy but is also influenced by norms of practice.
Journal articles
★Prominence, promotion and positioning of the ‘Thesis by Publication’ in six countries 🔓🇦🇺🇯🇵🇳🇿🇪🇸🇿🇦🇬🇧
Mason et al. | 2024 | Higher Education Policy
Time to tame the tome: Motivating the thesis by publication as a mode of study for a PhD in the humanities 🔓🌏︎
Connoway & Malherbe | 2024 | South African Journal of Higher Education
★What makes a Thesis by Publication? An international study of policy requirements and restrictions 🔓🇦🇺🇯🇵🇳🇿🇪🇸🇿🇦🇿🇦🇬🇧
Mason et al. | 2024 | Higher Education Policy and Management
Clinically-based PhDs by publication: a South African experience 🇿🇦
Grossman & Aldous | 2024 | Higher Education Research & Development
The PhD by publication in the humanities and social sciences: a cross country analysis 🔓🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸
Paltridge & Starfield | 2023 | Journal of Further and Higher Education
Mainstreaming the alternative format thesis in UK higher education: a systematic narrative review of institutional policies 🔓🇬🇧
Robinson | 2023 | Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education
著作彙編之學位論文: 定義, 規範與相關議題 [Thesis by Publication: Definition, Regulations and Issues for Consideration] 🔓🇨🇳 (in Chinese, with English summary)
Chou | 2022 | Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences
The doctorate in pieces: a scoping review of research on the PhD thesis by publication 🔓🌏︎
Solli & Nygaard | 2022 | Higher Education Research & Development
★Typical scope of time commitment and research outputs of Thesis by publication in Australia 🇦🇺
Mason et al. | 2020 | Higher Education Research & Development
Bringing the doctoral thesis by published papers to the Social Sciences and the Humanities 🔓🇬🇧
Rigby & Jones | 2020 | Scientometrics
★A current view of the thesis by publication in the humanities and social sciences 🔓🇦🇺
Mason & Merga | 2018 | International Journal of Doctoral Studies
Completing a PhD by publication: a review of Australian policy and implications for practice 🇦🇺
Jackson | 2013 | Higher Education Research & Development
Deconstructing doctoral dissertations: how many papers does it take to make a PhD? 🔓🇳🇴🇸🇪
Hagen | 2010 | Scientometrics
Books and chapters
★PhD Thesis by Publication in Social Science Research: A Practical Guide 🌏︎
Merga | 2025 | Facet
The thesis by publication as an emerging genre 🌏︎
Nygaard & Solli | 2021 | Strategies for Writing a Thesis by Publication in the Social Sciences and Humanities
★Landscapes and Narratives of PhD by Publication: Demystifying students’ and supervisors’ perspectives 🌏︎
Chong & Johnson | 2022 | Springer
Blog posts
What exactly is a PhD by publication? 🔓🌏︎
Nygaard & Solli | 2023 | LSE Impact blog
Videos
★What is a Thesis by Publication? 🔓🌏︎
Mason | 2020 | TBP Q&A series
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