Don’t fail your viva!

• Come prepared

• Listen: understand the questions and address them directly

• Make eye contact

• Show enthusiasm for your work (let your voice, face, body movements do their jobs)

• See you work in the bigger picture (Therefore, my work is an example /manifestation/ reflection of a more general phenomenon/body of literature on…)

• Be able to refer directly to your text in answering questions (I chapter 4, section 2, I have already said that….)

• Be able to refer directly to seminal texts by author and with accuracy

• Be able to articulate the nature and scale of your contribution

• Think forward – beyond the research to further work and its implications

• Be reflective – be able to say what was good about your work and what could be improved and how?