Descriptors of 350+ PhD in Design theses 2012-2022

Spreadsheet containing the collected the descriptions of 350+ PhD theses from the DoCS4Design programmes over the past 10 years. This is an open dataset made available for others to study. 

Added are two analysis reports that were made in the programme. A publication about the keywords analysis appeared as Mattioli, F., Figoli, F.A., and Stappers, P.J. (2024) Connecting the PhD in Design: How PhDs Label Their Thesis Research, in Proceedings of Learn X Design 2023: Futures of Design Education.

The DoCS4Design consortium had as partners the PhD in Design programmes of Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Aalto University (Finland), Imperial College (UK), Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and the Illinois Institute of Technology (USA).