Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management, 2nd Edition

23THE URGE TO PUBLISHTransforming your dissertation into publications

Darren Dalcher

DOI: 10.4324/9781003469513-27

Research as unpublished work

Times have certainly changed. A glance through older manuscripts and books will reveal that a mere half-century ago, citing a doctoral dissertation listed it as unpublished would often occur. Academic CVs would typically include a short section dedicated to unpublished works produced towards academic qualifications.

The process required to produce the completed dissertation would have been more onerous and would have included many steps:

• Handwriting each page of text in legible handwriting

• Transferring the handwritten pages to a typist

• Typing of the content

• Collecting the finished pages

• Proofreading ...