The SAGE Handbook of Digital Dissertations and Theses

A guide to undertaking and navigating advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences through digital research.

This handbook sets out the processes and products of ′digital′ research. It is a theoretical and practical guide on how to undertake and navigate advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Topics covered include:

- how to make research more accessible

- the use of search engines and other sources to determine the scope of work

- research training for students

- what will theses, dissertations and research reports look like in ten years′ time?

- the storing and archiving of such research

- ethics and methodologies in the field

- intercultural issues

The editors focus on advances in arts and practice-based doctorates, and their application in other fields and disciplines. The contributions chart new territory for universities, research project directors, supervisors and research students regarding the nature and format of Masters and doctoral work, as well as research projects.

This handbook is an essential reference for researchers, supervisors and administrators on how to conduct and evaluate research projects in a digital and multimodal age.

Richard Andrews is Professor in English, Faculty of Children and Learning, Institute of Education.

Erik Borg is a Senior Lecturer at Coventry University′s Centre for Academic Writing.

Stephen Boyd Davis is Research Leader in the School of Design, Royal College of Art.

Myrrh Domingo is Visiting Assistant Professor in English Education and Literacy Education at New York University.

Jude England is Head of Social Sciences at the British Library.

Introduction - Richard Andrews, Erik Borg, Stephen Boyd Davis, Myrrh Domingo and Jude England
PART ONE: INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES
The Thesis: Texts and Machines - Erik Borg and Stephen Boyd Davis
New Forms of Dissertation - Richard Andrews and Jude England
The Role of Doctoral and Graduate Schools - Richard P.J. Freeman and Andrew Tolmie
Digital Literacies for the Research Institution - Helen Beetham, Allison Littlejohn and Colin Milligan
PART TWO: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES
Media Systems, Multimodality and Post-Humanism - Lesley Gourlay
Reframing the Performing Arts - Zoe Beardshaw Andrews
Complexity Theory - June Elizabeth Parnell
Re-Imagining the Conditions of Possibility of a PhD Thesis - Jude Fransman
Traditional Theses and Multimodal Communication - Dylan Yamada-Rice
PART THREE: ETHICAL AND INTERCULTURAL ISSUES
Ethics and Representation - Bronwyn T. Williams and Mary Brydon-Miller
Copyright Managment Approaches - Brian Fitzgerald and Damien O′Brien
Understanding Identity Representations in Multimodal Research - Pauline Hope Cheong
The Social Life of Digital Texts in Multimodal Research - Myrrh Domingo
PART FOUR: MULTIMODALITY,INCLUDING THE REPRESENTATION AND PRESENTATION OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Researching in Conditions of Provisionality: Reflecting on the PhD in the Digital and Multimodal Era - Gunther Kress
Practice-as-Research in Music Performance - Mine Dogantan-Dack
Translating Lydia Cabrera: A Case Study in Digital (Re)Presentation - Anna-Marjatta Milsom
Disciplinary ′Specificity′ and the Digital Submission - Susan Melrose
Digits and Figures: A Manual Drawing Practice and Its Modes of Reproduction - Juliet MacDonald
PART FIVE: ARCHIVING, STORAGE AND ACCESSIBILITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
The Research Catalogue: A Model for Dissertations and Theses - Michael Schwab
The Changing Role of Library and Information Services - Joanna Newman
Animating the Archive - Martin Rieser
Establishing the Cybertextual in Practice-Based PhDs - Lisa Stansbie
PART SIX: RESEARCH METHODS
A Modern PhD: Doctoral Education in Australian Universities in Digital Times - Ilana Snyder and Denise Beale
How Changes in Representation Can Affect Meaning - Amy Alexandra Wilson
Researching Adoloscents′ Literacies Multimodally - Lalitha Vasudevan and Tiffany DeJaynes
Implication for Research Training and Examination for Design PhDs - Joyce S.R. Yee
Uncaged Boxed-up - Ralf Nuhn
Index