Five Contributions
List five contributions to research that you and your work have made, big or small. For each one, write one or two short sentences to respond to each of these questions:
- When did you do the work that lead to this contribution?
- Why was this work something you pursued?
- How did you approach this?
- Who, if anyone, supported you in this and what did they do?
- Where does it fit in your thesis?
- What does this contribution mean to other people?
Five contributions and several sentences for each then gives a fruitful space for further reflection.
How would you organise them? Chronologically? Can you group them into related categories? Do they have similar impact or area of impact? Did one contribution allow for another?
And, more than anything, can you see that with very little provocation there is a lot you can talk about at your viva when it comes to thinking about the contributions you have made?