The PJA, together with research partners has carried out extensive academic research into the pipejacking process and associated areas. Details are listed below and abstracts and full reports can be downloaded.
| YEAR | SUBJECT | RESEARCHER | UNIVERSITY / DEGREE | DOWNLOAD | |
| 2018 | SFRC Jacking Pipe Design | Mr ELYAS MALAKI ZANJANI | University Of Portsmouth | Abstract | Thesis |
| 2016 | Disaggregation of soil during slurry pipe jacking | Neil Phillips | City / PhD | Abstract | Thesis |
| 2012 | The optimisation of slurry separation within pipe jacking | Neil Phillips | Leeds / MSc | Abstract | Thesis |
| 2010 | Slurry dewatering in the pipe jacking industry | Shih-Yun Liu | Leeds / PhD | Abstract | Thesis |
| 2007 | Foam as a soil conditioner in tunnelling: physical and mechanical properties of conditioned sands | Miguel Peña Duarte | Oxford / PhD | Abstract | Thesis |
| 2006 | Soil conditioning for pipe-jacking and tunnelling | François Xavier Borghi | Cambridge / PhD | Abstract | Thesis |
| 2004 | Conditioning of clay soils for tunnelling machine screw conveyors | Andrew Merritt | Cambridge / PhD | Abstract | Thesis |
| 2001 | Properties of foam/sand mixtures for tunnelling applications | Sotoris Psomas | Oxford / MSc | Abstract | Thesis |
| 1998 | Pipe-jacked tunnelling: Jacking loads and ground movements | Mark Marshall | Oxford / PhD | Abstract | Thesis |
| 1998 | Numerical analysis and laboratory test of concrete jacking pipes | Jian-Qing Zhou | Oxford / PhD | Abstract | Thesis |
| 1992 | The behaviour of jacked concrete pipes during installation | Paul Norris | Oxford / PhD | Abstract | Thesis |
| 1989 | The performance of jacked pipes | Kevin Ripley | Oxford / PhD | Abstract | Thesis |
Oxford University has published a number of reports on pipejacking and these are detailed below:
| YEAR | TITLE | AUTHOR/S | DOWNLOAD |
| 2000 | Lubrication and soil conditioning in tunnelling, pipe jacking and microtunnellling | George Milligan | Paper |
| 1997 | Prototype testing of improved concrete pipes | Chris Holt, George Milligan and Harvey Burd | Paper |
| 1994 | Pipe jacking: Research results and recommendations | George Milligan and Paul Norris | Paper |
| 1993 | The performance of concrete jacking pipes during installation | George Milligan and Paul Norris | Paper |
| 1992 | Instrument design, manufacture and calibration for use in monitoring the field performance of jacked pipes | Paul Norris | Paper |
In addition Oxford University has made available a number of collected papers which can also be downloaded Collected Papers