I've been doing a bit of research on line and trying to locate a porthole or website which offers a comprehensive list of UK institutions offering PhDs by publication. So far I haven't managed to find anything. Does anyone know if such a thing exists?
Many thanks...

I think most unis offer it, but have different roles in terms of the quantity and quality of the publications. Although I think there are a few offering professional docterates which are basically PhDs by publication, depends on your subject.

Yeh I don't think it's the sort of thing that one university offers over another, and there isn't really any barriers to you being the first in an institution to do it. It's your PhD so you can pretty much decide how you do it. At my university there is a real mix of people doing it in each way within and between diciplines.

But from my point of view what you write in publications and your thesis are different things. I've written several publications and I am writing my PhD as a thesis. A thesis will really let you go into detail about every aspect of your research and nit pick on certain points you will be building a mass of specialising knowledge and thinking very clearly and carefully about every aspect of what you are doing - an opportunity you'll probably never have again in your career so I'm glad I'm writing it that way. Publications are influenced by word limits, and will generally want a clear, consise and less detailed exposition of a study that do not let you indulge in as much information, Although it's becoming quite common to to do PhD by publication in my department my supervisors are quite keen to hold onto the thesis.

Good luck :-)