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Possible PHD Defence Questions

1. Based on the questions asked, the document appears to contain possible questions for a PhD defense. The questions cover a range of topics including the candidate's future research plans, implications and applications of their work, methodology, findings, contributions to the field, and lessons learned. 2. Questions probe the candidate to summarize their key findings, justify their research design, explain how their thinking has evolved, and reflect on the significance and novelty of their work. 3. The candidate is also asked to comment on weaknesses or limitations of their work, how they would do things differently in hindsight, and how their research could be built upon or applied going forward.

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Possible PHD Defence Questions

1. Based on the questions asked, the document appears to contain possible questions for a PhD defense. The questions cover a range of topics including the candidate's future research plans, implications and applications of their work, methodology, findings, contributions to the field, and lessons learned. 2. Questions probe the candidate to summarize their key findings, justify their research design, explain how their thinking has evolved, and reflect on the significance and novelty of their work. 3. The candidate is also asked to comment on weaknesses or limitations of their work, how they would do things differently in hindsight, and how their research could be built upon or applied going forward.

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Possible PhD defense questions

1. Based on your findings, what will your next research project be? How would you build on this research? Where do you see this kind of research mo ing in the future? What are the openings? How could you impro e your work? !. How can your research be used in practice? ". What would you change if you were to do the study again? #f you did it again what would you do differently? What would you do differently if you were setting out to do it today? #n hindsight, is there any aspect of the research that you would do differently? $ooking back, what might you ha e done differently? %. What are the main weaknesses with what you did and why are they there? What are the strongest&weakest parts of your work? '. What is the main contribution of your thesis? What ha e been the significant contributions of your research? #n what ways does this research make a significant contribution to your particular field of study? What ha e you done that merits a (h)? *ummarise your key findings. What+s original about your work? Where is the no elty? What are the contributions ,to knowledge- of your thesis? What is the implication of your work in your area? What does it change? .. Why did you decide to undertake this specific project? What are the moti ations for your research? Why is the problem you ha e tackled worth tackling? What are the main aims, /uestions, hypotheses? Where did your research0project come from? How did your research0/uestions emerge? Why are your research /uestions interesting or important? 1. 2omment on and justify your research methodology. Why ha e you done it this way? What are the alternati es to your approach? 3. What are the principal findings of this research project? How do they compare the findings of other projects within the field? Who are your closest competitors?

4. How has your thinking changed as a result of this research project? What ha e you learned from the process of doing your (h)? Has your iew of your research topic changed during the course of the research? 15. #n one sentence, what is your thesis? 11. What are you most proud of, and why? 1!. Where do current technologies fail such that you ,could- make a contribution? 1". Where did you go wrong? 1%. How ha e you e aluated your work? 1'. How do your contributions generalise?

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