But suffice it to say that when completed, her doctoral dissertation is going to be scrutinized like few others.

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MacDonald (yes, NASA has economists), who is working on an economic history of space exploration for his doctoral dissertation.

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Hitchings went to Oxford and wrote a doctoral dissertation on Samuel Johnson.

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For her doctoral dissertation, she has been interviewing twenty Guadalajarans about how they perceive their city and their security where and why they feel unsafe, how they protect themselves from risks.

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Through this unofficial field work, I contemplated the relationship between fashion and our ability to gain power in public, and made it the subject of both my MA thesis and my doctoral dissertation.

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Beyond the potential ethical problems and ease of finding ghostwriters for academic dissertations (go ahead, Google it), accusations of plagiarism have stung the British academy: the son of the late Libyan Colonel Gaddafi was investigated last year for allegations that his doctoral dissertation at the London School of Economics was penned by a ghostwriter.

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Jonathan Frye, a doctoral degree candidate who is writing his dissertation on video games and player types, said that when he started his program at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development he had to ask permission to take classes at the university's Tisch School of the Arts.

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