I’ve been answering difficult questions about my PhD thesis all day to prepare for my viva on Monday. I thought I’d post a few of them up here because they offer a handy FAQ and, I think, dispel of a few myths about what my research was about:
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[PhD] Viva: The playlist
Friday November 20, 2009 @ 07:49 PM (UTC)I thought I would throw together a calm….calm….positive…. playlist to listen to on the train up to my PhD viva on Monday morning. Any more suggestions are welcome; this is still a work in progress.
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[PhD] Viva prep: post-its
Tuesday November 17, 2009 @ 02:38 PM (UTC)It’s not right to have that many post-its attached to the beast after only reading the Background Chapter:
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[PhD] Viva preparation advice?
Monday November 16, 2009 @ 09:48 AM (UTC)In seven days, I sit my viva voce, that part of the PhD candidate’s self-imposed intellectual insanity aimed at determining whether s/he has personally created sound original research that contributes something to the academic dialogue. If the viva is successful (given the varying degrees of ‘successful’), the candidate passes and forces everyone s/he knows to call him/her ‘Doc’ for at least a month. We won’t think about what happens if the viva is not successful.
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