Your Best Work
Naturally, it is extremely likely that your examiners will want to talk to you about your best work. The headline results and conclusions that are central to your contribution.
- How do you define your best work?
- What lead to you working on it?
- What’s the impact for your thesis and for others?
There’s more to your thesis than a single topic or piece though. It’s likely that there’s more they will want to talk to you about.
- What other aspects of your work do you think they’ll focus on?
- How do these other areas connect with your main contribution?
- Is there anything you don’t think they’ll ask about?
Finally, it’s likely that these two categories are not all that you want to talk about.
- What else would you like to come up in conversation at your viva?
- What questions do you want to introduce into the discussion?
- What do you not want to talk about?
Your best work will feature at the viva along with lots of other topics. Take time as you prepare to reflect on what could come up, how you could engage with it and what you need to do to be ready.