Posts Tagged ‘phd defence’
Dutch PhD defences
Posted by: clare on: January 7, 2012
In my final weeks before leaving Eindhoven, I finally managed to attend a Dutch doctoral defence. As a Brit, this was a really interesting cultural experience. For us, the PhD process concludes with a viva (from the Latin for ‘live’), a closed-door examination where a couple of examiners grill you for an indeterminate amount of [...]
