Back to Basics: A consideration of the purposes of the PhD viva

By C. Jackson, P. Tinkler. 2001

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Searching for ‘doctorateness’ (2013, background): “A range of literature has pointed out the variability in examination processes across universities (Jackson and Tinkler 2001; Tinkler and Jackson 2002); others have examined the variability in vivas both within (Hartley and Fox 2002; Morley, Leonard, and David 2002) and across disciplines (Trafford…”
Independent inquiry and the undergraduate dissertation: perceptions and experiences of final‐year social science students (2004, background): “Considerably more attention has been paid to learner experience and tutor practices in relation to the master’s dissertation and the doctoral thesis (examples of recent studies being Wright & Cochrane, 2000; Jackson & Tinkler, 2001; and Woolhouse, 2002).”