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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 01:48pm on 07/12/2005
True, but I still wouldn't mind hearing about yours if you were willing to share. They also differ a great deal from defense to defense within a given department. So much depends on a committee.
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posted by [identity profile] oursin.livejournal.com at 03:15pm on 07/12/2005
Let's just say there was a distinct lack of tension around mine, since the previous week the internal examiner had checked to ensure that I would be free for 'celebratory' lunch after the viva.

UK vivas tend to be small and intimate: an external, an internal, and (possibly) supervisor, plus candidate (unlike the European variety which are much more public and to which anyone can, theoretically, turn up). Mine was a genial conversation about my research.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 03:56pm on 07/12/2005
My sister, who has spent a fair bit of time in the Italian system, was presuming she could come to my defense until I told her otherwise. Of course, if our defenses were open, then I'd also have a somewhat better sense for what they are like, since I could have attended several.

I'm glad your defense went so pleasantly!
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