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| Do you want a newly defended PhD thesis to be delivered to you? |
Now that I have produced and defended my "own intellectual creation", which carries the title Judge-Made EU Copyright Harmonisation. The Case of Originality (you
can find further details here), I would be delighted to make it
available to any serious scholar or practitioner who is currently
working in this field, so to engage in discussion with and receive
comments/inputs/feedback from them. If you are one of those lucky and
enthusiastic EU copyright folks, you can send an email to eleonorarosati{at}gmail.com. Many thanks in advance!
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| Not every PhD candidate is sleepless though |
How to examine PhDs? Still
on the topic of PhD, this morning Jeremy posted his thoughts on
possible methodologies for conducting PhD examinations that are fair and
effective, and such as to allow PhD candidates to benefit as
fully as possible from examiners' feedback. The 1709 Blog thinks that this
topic has not yet been addressed as thoroughly as it deserves, despite being
something which makes PhD examiners often upset and PhD candidates invariably sleepless.
Therefore, it warmly encourages its readers (either PhD students, examiners or simple
fans of methodological issues) to share their thoughts on such an important issue.
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A slightly belated congratulations to Eleonora!
In response to Jeremy's thoughts on how to examine PhDs: I was told through the grape vine as a science PhD student (in the UK) that if one's supervisor allowed one to submit the thesis he would also give an informal thumbs up to the Examiners that it was worth a PhD. The viva can be very traumatic and mine was, though I passed it. My supervisor had warned me that the Examiners have several weeks to think up awful questions, which might not even have an answer. And that's what happened. In response to several questions I said 'I don't know' and the Examiners would gleefully reply 'Yes. That's right. No one does.', which was meant to be the answer. Afterwards I really felt I had been pushed to the limits of every concept in the thesis, not necessarily in a fair way. That happened because the system is too informal and closed, and so I very much support conducting examinations/vivas along the lines described for the EUI.
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