Following the Complete Researcher Launchpad 06/11/18 - I've sought to find out what can be expected at the VIVA! This link is suggested in the PhD handbook at DJCAD. Top 10 VIVA questions... in understanding what is likely to be asked, I can review these questions throughout my research project, to reflect upon how my research will answer these questions. https://medium.com/advice-and-help-in-authoring-a-phd-or-non-fiction/top-ten-questions-for-the-phd-oral-exam-c3687cc75962 Here’s where the Top 10 list of questions below can come in useful, as a frame to encourage you to think wider and more generally about the professional conversation to come. Value-added and originality What are the most original (or value-added) parts of your thesis? Which propositions or findings would you say are distinctively your own? How do you think your work takes forward or develops the literature in this field? What are the ‘bottom line’ conclusions of your research? How innovati...