The workshop will allow you to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your work, and to prepare to discuss both.
During the workshop you will engage in critical reflection and familiarize yourself on how to interpret and respond to critics within an academic discourse in readiness for your Viva. This will allow you to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your work, and prepare to discuss both.
The Viva is an oral examination that consists of a highly critical and stimulating discourse across two examiners and the doctoral candidate. The Viva preparation workshop works through the various areas you, as a doctoral student, can expect to be covered in the Viva. Areas such as scene setting and introduction of the research, literature review, methodology, data collection and findings, analysis and evaluation, presentation of the results, along with the actionability of the research and why it mattered.
The Viva preparation workshop fosters both reflections-in-action and on-action. Reflections-in-action will be promoted through the oral presentation and discussion. To further nurture reflections-on-action the workshop is recorded, and participants are encouraged to transcribe the recording to once again look at the questions, their answers, and the feedback and tips received. Based on these transcripts, participants then can improve their oral presentations, and for those on the verge of submission, still improve their thesis.
The Viva preparation workshop is rich in double-loop feedback and therefore ideal in your preparation for your final acid test, the Viva itself.