Target Audience: This workshop is for academic staff undertaking or expecting to undertake the role of internal or external examiner of a doctoral thesis for the first time.
The workshop is also suitable for supervisors whose prior experience is of a different doctoral examination model (such as the Australian or European system). It considers the purposes of the viva voce examination used for UK and Nottingham doctorates and will help supervisors identify how they can best prepare their students for this examination.
Description:
During this course you will:
Aims/ Objectives:
This course will help you to develop your understanding of the process of examination of a doctoral thesis by viva voce.
By the end of the course you will:
Related Courses:
If you are an early career academic gaining experience of PhD supervision and examination you may also find the course Contemporary Issues in Supervising Research Students useful.
Print off pre-requisite paperwork/ resources and bring them to the course | |
Bring your own laptop/ PC to the course (optional) | |
Access seminar room on campus | |
Attend the course at the specified date and time | |
Watch and listen to the course tutor(s) and/ or other attendees | |
Follow presentation slides during the course | |
Take part in group activities/ discussions |
Booking Conditions
Latecomer policy
Researchers should plan to arrive prior to the advertised course start time. Except for exceptional reasons, there will be no admittance to a Researcher Academy or Faculty Training Programme (FTP) course 15 minutes after the advertised course start time.
Importance of booking commitment
When booking on to a Researcher Academy short course you are entering into a commitment to attend. If you find that you are no longer available to attend you MUST cancel your place (on the system if more than three days before the course) or if at short notice by emailing ra-training@nottingham.ac.uk. This will ensure that your place can be offered to another researcher on the waiting list. Failure to cancel a place results in other researchers missing out on places through the waiting list process.
It is unacceptable for researchers to just not attend when booked onto a course. The Researcher Academy maintains records of those who repeatedly do not attend courses they have booked. This may affect future eligibility to book onto further Researcher Academy courses and will affect considerations for Researcher Academy funded opportunities.
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