In Cambridge we have been taking research ideas from local voluntary and public sector organisations and matching them where possible with undergraduate and masters dissertation students in subjects like sociology, social psychology, geography, public health.
Casting around for a dissertation topic, the student, Eugene Aserinsky, decided to hook sleepers up to an early version of an electroencephalogram machine, which scribbled across half a mile of paper each night.
While doing graduate work at the University of Delaware, Mr. Pisano wrote a dissertation on the students of Chase, who lived in Southampton and established an art school there in the late 1880's.
There's a dissertation topic for the student willing to take it on.
In 1974, when a Berkeley Ph.D. student writing a dissertation about Wonder Woman asked Holloway about Wonder Woman's bracelets, Holloway replied in a letter, "A student of Dr. Marston's wore on each wrist heavy, broad silver bracelets, one African and the other Mexican.
Teaching was her passion, whether she was lecturing to a distinguished academic audience or helping a student get through a dissertation, and in the process many of her students would say she changed their lives.
Julian is a graduate student writing a dissertation on the various incarnations of the Progressive Party.
According to a survey of 105 female players conducted in 2006 by a University of Miami philosophy student for a dissertation on gender in role-playing games, more than 55percentt of respondents had been "made to feel uncomfortable, judged, or harassed because of their gender" while playing a game or interacting with the RPG community.
Although writing a dissertation is predominantly independent work, each student is assigned a supervisor – another potential benefit.
James Pollack, his first graduate student, had written a dissertation, in 1965, on the greenhouse effect on Venus.
