Tips for a PhD defense or viva #phd

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. It is with quite some pleasure that I was awarded the PhD in Educational Technologies last week.
The UK version of a PhD defense is called a Viva, which resembles a closed oral examination (open book) with one external examiner (connected to another University than the one you are at) and an internal examiner (affiliated to your own University, but with whom nor yourself, nor your supervisors have co-authored a paper – so not closely professionally related). Read more...