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We work hard to ensure that our hoods precisely match university regulations and those manufactured by other suppliers. Fabrics are custom dyed to match university colours and we use a broad variety of fabric finishes and weights so our customers blend in seamlessly.

Each graduation gown we make is made from 70% recycled polyester which is manufactured from recycled plastic waste. This is then blended with 30% viscose for a soft finish. Every graduation gown contains a minimum of 550g of recycled plastic waste, which equates to at least 28 500ml plastic bottles. The final result is a soft fabric that looks and feels like gowns made by any other supplier.

Our mortarboards are made from a soft black felt material with a ribbon finish arround the base of the cap. A flexible cap and 'secure fit' elastic inside the headband ensure all of our mortarboards are a comfortable fit and stay in place on your graduation day.

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Researcher Support Library Services: PhD Thesis submission

• Library Resources for Research - Effective Literature Searching & Reference Management
• Open Scholarship & Impact
• Research Data Management & Data Management Plans This link opens in a new window

All postgraduate research students are required to deposit an electronic copy of their thesis into PEARL, the university's Open Access research repository.   Older research theses have also been digitized from Library holdings and added to PEARL.

Guidance on depositing your thesis

Depositing your thesis.

The submission form will ask you to select an embargo period and give an option to licence your work.  You will need to be aware of any copyright issues (for example, including published versions of your articles, images etc.) and seek permissions or redact material accordingly.  The document gives a permissions seeking template and will advise on how to edit your document.  

For any queries on this process please contact [email protected]

*** CLICK TO DEPOSIT YOUR THESIS ***

choose the top link: "University of Plymouth account" log in using your username (not email) and password

• Guide to depositing your e-thesis

Requesting embargos

Should i stipulate an embargo, what is an embargo.

An embargo is a temporary lock applied to your thesis that prevents public download until the end of the embargo period.  Your thesis is still discoverable in Pearl (and via web searches) and the abstract will be visible.  The file itself will show a padlock icon which will automatically unlock at end of the specified period.  

Should I select an embargo period?

Increasingly, funders and institutions are moving to a position of immediate openness of research outputs.  We recommend making your work immediately Open as this aligns with Open Scholarship principles including funder mandates to be open in research outcome dissemination; increasing your visibility to be cited; and credits you with your ideas date/time stamped with an appropriate re-use licence (if CC is selected) should others wish to re-use your work.

Embargo options in Pearl:

PGRs can select from 3 options in the PEARL thesis self deposit process that can be applied automatically at the point of deposit:

• 6 month embargo
• 12 month embargo

There is a 4th option for an Extended Embargo period (of longer than 12 months) for which you will need to complete a form and gain Supervisor approval:

Extended embargos:

1. Deposit your thesis using the link above and select a 12 month embargo when prompted.

2. Then please complete the below form and forward emailed approval from your DoS to the address given in the form:

• Extended embargo approval confirmation

3. Your extended embargo period will be applied once your thesis deposit has been approved by the doctoral college.

Scenarios where you may need to embargo your work:

Publications pending.

Students may wish to embargo for purposes of future publication opportunities based on your thesis. However, these days, many publishers do not view thesis publishing as prior publishing and in any case would usually require a substantial review of structure for a new audience. Therefore, to publish from your thesis is rarely a reason to apply an embargo period.

PEARL is a non-commercial archive of University outputs. Most publishers are understanding of the purpose of open theses via repositories and have stated that an open thesis is not considered prior publication. Some of the big publishers who support this are:

• Nature ​: "[we] are happy to consider submissions containing material that has previously formed part of a PhD or other academic thesis which has been published according to the requirements of the institution awarding the qualification"
• Elsevier : "To avoid any doubt, Elsevier does not count publication of an academic thesis as prior publication."
• Wiley : "The following types of “prior publication” do not present cause for concerns about duplicate or redundant publication:....Dissertations and theses in university archives."

Including your own published articles in your thesis

If you have published articles you would like to include in your thesis you will need to consider whether you signed your copyright away to the publisher upon publication. Most authors do find that their publisher owns the copyright of their work (unless money has been paid to the publisher to make it Open Access). If your paper is behind a paywall you can usually include the author's accepted manuscript version into your thesis.

Accepted Manuscripts : this the version of your work that has been through peer review with revisions made. It has not yet been typeset by the publisher. It will likely be a word document. The publisher's copyright policy often states you are permitted to share these versions publicly subject to an embargo period.

You can check your publisher's embargo period for your journal using the Sherpa tool: http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

If your journal requires an embargo you can select this within the deposit workflow in PEARL. Remember that the embargo applies from the date of publication of the article, not your thesis deposit. Depending on when your paper was published, the embargo may already have elapsed.

Patents/Commercial Sensitivity

This is a common reason for requiring an embargo.

Using copyrighted material

Using copyrighted material.

Find out about Fair Dealing and whether you need to seek permission for including copyrighted materials in your published thesis:

Copyright advice for researchers

Licencing your thesis

Choosing a licence for your thesis.

You can choose to be as open or as restrictive in your licencing of your thesis as you wish.  Most research funders require an open CC-BY Creative Commons licence for outputs of funded research.  CC-BY is the most open of the Creative Commons family of licence types where the author retains copyright and should always be credited as the creator of the work but permissions do not need to be sought by others for reuse, adding to, remixing or commercial gain.  Funders require CC-BY as they wish to remove permissions barriers to future researchers.

Pearl offers the following licencing options:

• Public Domain & CC0 (we advise against these options as this is relinquishing copyright and giving your work away)
• Creative Commons licence (recommended, see below)
• No Creative Commons licence (we advise against this as it means 'all rights reserved' with no further guidance explaining how people may use your work.  Beyond Fair Dealing, people would need to seek permission from you.  Once you have left Plymouth, you may be hard to track down.)

Creative Commons branching options in Pearl:

• Allow commercial uses of your work (yes or no)
• Allow modifications of your work (share alike, yes or no)

The Creative Commons licence for your thesis will depend on the options chosen above.  See the CC licences for more detail on what commercial, share alike etc. means.  (The Library recommends non-commercial as your thesis is not published for commercial gain, however, this is entirely your choice).

What are Creative Commons licences?

CC licenses provide clear indication of how work may be used, reused and distributed.  There is a standard, machine readable logo for each licence type and the general public clicking on these logos will find a clear explanation of how the work can and cannot be used.  Creative Commons licences can be as restrictive or as Open as required.  Often, they are used by creators and authors to remove some of the barriers to reuse of their work to encourage future development. 

There are six main Creative Commons licenses - you can find out more about these on the  Creative Commons website . 

Thesis submission: Key resources

• PEARL University of Plymouth's Open Access research repository
• Recorded session and slides A previously recorded session available via the Doctoral College's DLE (Moodle) site.

Further support

• Academic process and regulations: [email protected]
• Technical support with submission: itselfservice.plymouth.ac.uk 
• Copyright and embargo queries: [email protected] 
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Postgraduate research

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Plymouth Marjon University welcomes applications for postgraduate research students (PhD) across four key research areas: Education; Sport and Exercise Science; Health and Wellbeing; Business and Social Science.

The application process for a PhD is iterative: you are likely to be asked to refine your proposal and you can expect to be kept informed of progress.  We recommend that you make your enquiry as early as possible to allow for the process which can take approximately 6 months.

The first step in applying to undertake a PhD at Marjon is to complete the RD1a Research Degree Enquiry  which includes a brief 200-word overview of your research idea. If there is scope to supervise and support your research, one of our PGR Coordinators will contact you. You will be offered an informal meeting with a research supervisor to discuss the completion of RD2a research degree application form which includes a project proposal of 750 words.

Applications are accepted throughout the year. If successful in your application, your PhD programme will begin in early October or early February.  Please refer to these typical timeframes as a guide:

Please contact the Doctoral College as soon as possible if you would like to apply for an ESRC funded studentship as the deadlines will be earlier.

For entry requirements and further details of the application process, please see Section 1 of the Handbook for Postgraduate Research Students (download available below).

Key research areas

The University has four key areas of research: Business and Social Science; Sport and Exercise Science; Health and Wellbeing; Education.

Business and Social Science

This is an exciting and expanding research area of postgraduate research at Plymouth Marjon University.  Drawing on the practical and theoretical expertise of staff who are experts in their field and internationally renowned.  Business and Social Science covers a range of disciplines that may include, but is not limited to, business, sociology, criminology, economics, psychology, geography, international relations, social policy, law and many more.  This area of research recognises that interdisciplinarity is important for addressing some of today's most pressing issues.  These issues may include climate change, sustainability, social equality and environmental degradation and post-Covid recovery. If you have an idea for a research project please do get in touch .

Sport and Exercise Science

This area produces research that advances knowledge of how physical activity, exercise, and sport are related to human performance, social inclusion and sustainability. Research of human performance requires consideration of the intrinsic and extrinsic factors which influence performance. These include the investigation of physiological, psychological and mechanical factors across training, recovery, injury repair and rehabilitation to facilitate better understanding of the fundamental principles underlying performance.

Health and Wellbeing

Within the area of Health and Wellbeing, the university has particular and immediate strengths that will enable the advancement of knowledge and understanding through a supportive and vibrant environment. The research area is characterised by a density of individual researchers working in an exciting environment that includes a range of specialist facilities. The subject grouping is derived from a combination of speech and language therapy (with an NHS-commissioned programme and patient referral clinics), physical activity (clinics), mental health, musculoskeletal health, sports medicine and regenerative medicine.

Research undertaken within education encompasses the full range of sectors of informal and formal education and addresses education pedagogy, policy, practice. Our researchers have developed innovation in education theory and methodology leading to equally innovative impacts on education pedagogy, policy and practice in early years, community, school, further, higher and career-long education at local, regional, national and international levels.

We are particularly interested in research proposals around the areas of Education, Sustainability and Health and Wellbeing.  Some ideas for possible areas of PhD research: 

• The Embedding of Sustainability in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education in UK Higher Education. Potential supervisors – Dr Andreas Walmsley, Dr Laura Wallis, Dr Lynne Wyness
• Spatial equity and teacher supply in rural schools in England. Potential supervisors – Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Professor Sonia Blandford
• Pretending to be 'normal'? Understanding the needs of Autistic Community Based Practitioners. Potential supervisors – Dr Mark Leather
• ‘Is a small school a failed big school? Making sense of small schools in the UK’. Potential supervisors - Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Professor Sonia Blandford
• Communicating climate change and sustainability. Potential supervisors: Professor Debby Cotton, Dr Lynne Wyness
• How do pro-social attitudes align with developing an entrepreneurial identity? Dr Laura Wallis, Dr Andreas Walmsley
• Sustainable Performance Making in Austere Climates. Potential supervisors: Dr Natalie Raven, Professor Jennie Winter
• Understanding behaviour change towards sustainability. Potential supervisors: Professor Jennie Winter, Dr Andreas Walmsley, Dr Laura Wallis
• Heat stress risk, monitoring and mitigation: Exploring Comprehensive Strategies. Potential supervisors - Dr Joe Layden, Dr Kass Gibson, Dr Rosanna Waters-Symons, Dr Jonathan Waddington
• Reaching those who are hard to reach: improving engagement with health and wellbeing clinics through participatory research. Potential supervisors - Professor Pam Dawson, Professor Saul Bloxham
• Thermoregulation in the Elderly: Strategies to mitigate heat stress risk. Potential supervisors - Dr Joe Laydon, Dr Kass Gibson, Dr Rosanna Waters-Symons, Dr Jonathan Waddington
• Find out more about Marjon Research and Knowledge Exchange Groups.

Postgraduate research fees and funding

We are currently accepting applications from self or externally funded applications. 

For information about fully funded ESRC studentships at Plymouth Marjon University click here

For information about the doctoral loan scheme click here  

For advice and guidance, check our student finance pages:

Postgraduate funding | Plymouth Marjon University

Student funding advice | Plymouth Marjon University

For postgraduate research programme fees click here .

Postgraduate research coordinators

A Research & Knowledge Exchange Support Officer sits within the Research & Knowledge Exchange Office and will provide support and updates throughout the PGR application process and beyond. The Support Officer is supported by a PGR Coordinator for each of our four key research areas:

• Dr Andreas Walmsley : PGR Coordinator Business and Social Science
• Dr Tracy Hayes : PGR Coordinator Education
• Dr Kass Gibson, Associate Professor : PGR Coordinator Sport and Exercise Science; Health and Wellbeing

We have a wide range of PGR supervisors here at Marjon from a range of disciplines. The PGR Coordinator will work with applicants and staff to form an appropriate supervision team to support your research. Our staff profile pages provide further information about all members of Marjon staff.

A busy schedule of research events

The University is committed to supporting our researchers and offers a wide range of training events for postgraduate research students and staff. The Research & Knowledge Exchange Office is responsible for coordinating a programme of events which our postgraduate students are actively encouraged to attend and participate in.

Academy Lecture Series : high-profile speakers from a range of disciplines, open to the public.

Brown Bag Series : an opportunity for staff and students to share and discuss their research. A great opportunity for PGR students and early career researchers to build confidence within an informal setting.

Research Developer Series : a wide range of training workshops including support with bids, statistical workshops, life after PhD and much more.

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PhD Tourism and Hospitality

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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

Subject areas

Tourism Hospitality / Catering (General)

Course type

The tourism and hospitality department offers a supportive research environment that provides opportunities for candidates to succeed in their chosen research fields. We welcome applications from suitably qualified persons to undertake doctoral research in the broad areas of tourism, hospitality, cruise and events. Our research specialisms range from heritage and cultural tourism, sustainability, persuasion, communication to talent management and digital marketing.

Supervised by scholars renowned in their fields, you will explore contemporary tourism, hospitality and events issues arising from the latest developments in the sector’s research and industry practice. The successful completion of a PhD in Tourism or Hospitality will prepare you well for the a career in academia or industry.

This full time or part time doctoral programme is suitable for people who have a particular research question or topic in mind, and wish to explore this through independent study in order to produce an original contribution to the subject. If you aspire to a research career this is the most appropriate research degree to undertake. You will be guided by a small supervisory team of academic experts under the direction of a Director of Studies. You will be expected to fully engage with skills development and training and to present your research in a range of scholarly contexts. Your PhD will be assessed via submission of either a written thesis (approximately 80,000 words), or one that combines critical writing with artistic, creative and/or professional practice, and a viva voce (an oral examination).

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For this course (per year)

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Applicants are expected to have completed a masters level qualification to a high standard (e.g. at 'merit' or 'distinction' level) as well as either a good 2:1 or first class honours undergraduate degree in an area of study appropriate to your project proposal. We are happy to consider equivalent qualifications (for instance, you may have studied different subjects at undergraduate and masters level but have established a relevant industry practice since then).

The University of Plymouth’s campus is centrally located within Britain’s Ocean City, perched on the South Westerly coast of Devon in between scenic Cornwall and the historic Dartmoor National Park. The University is renowned for its world leading research; postgraduate students are supported by accomplished and experienced staff who undertake research that is innovative, operates across disciplinary boundaries, and provides outstanding... more

MSc Tourism and Hospitality Management

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