Common Qs About The Viva: What If I Find Mistakes.
PhD Viva. May your last hour be your best hour Prayer - Our Lady's Blessing. The PhD viva examination, or thesis defence, represents the culmination of the PhD examination process, and how you perform at it can determine whether or not you are successful overall. It is crucial, therefore, that just as for any other kind of examination, you prepare yourself thoroughly, so that you come across.
My final experiment has gone to shit and requires repeating - with less than 6 months to the end of my PhD and a meeting with my supervisors next week where I will have to break the news to them of the failure of the experiment, and that I will need a 6 month extension on my candidature to get through the rest of the data I need to analyse and write up.
This post is written by Brian Flemming, a mathematician working as a Systems Engineer in Edinburgh. He completed an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) as a mature student at Heriot Watt University in 2014 and is now appreciating the freedom to continue studying and spend time away on the hills, without the associated “PhD-guilt” of neglecting the books.
It is extremely rare. My wife was one of those guys who got a “pass with no corrections” on her PhD thesis. She started her PhD an year earlier and we graduated together. On her way to the viva, she met a guy from the doctoral office at the Warwic.
I Have My PhD, Where Do I Go From Here? This article focuses on a difficult time in every academic’s career: what to do immediately after getting a PhD. Congratulations, you have had your viva and your PhD has been awarded, it feels as though you are at the end of a huge journey.
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:. In one sentence what is my thesis? I sought to identify why an attitude and a behaviour were adopted by participants in an online community in.
Every viva examination is different, so it is not possible to know in advance exactly what the examiners will ask you. However, there are some common questions which you may like to practice as part of your own preparations.