Preparation of neat PhD viva-voce presentation slides and presenting them in a perfect manner in the given time is very important for a PhD viva-voce examination as it going to give a good impression on both research scholar and supervisor or mentor by the examiners or moderators.
Before designing the presentation slides, the scholar has to decide what to include and what not to include in the slides. It is always a big deal for a scholar to include all the research findings, data in the presentation that was obtained during the research program (4 to 5 years).
The scholar has to remember that the presentation should include only the major research findings and key contributions as time management is important. Therefore, in this article, iLovePhD framed simple and useful tips to prepare Ph.D. viva-voce presentation slides.
Sample Ph.D. viva-voce presentation slides
The format of the presentation slides is presented below. This would give you an idea to prepare the slides.
Tips to prepare Ph.D. viva-voce presentation slides
- Give brief introduction about the background of your study. Always present the points in a bulleted manner (4 to 5 points) rather than paragraph.
- Highlight the research gaps or the need for the research study and present your problem statement clearly.
- List the objectives and methodology of your study with neat schematics.
- Present the important research findings and data presented in your thesis in a simple and bulleted manner. Don’t explain it as a paragraph in the slide rather you can give the detailed explanation with scientific evidences during your defence presentation.
- Connect your findings with past relevant literatures and emphasis the novelty of your research.
- Use schematics, graphs, and tables with experimental conditions rather than detailed statements.
- Summarize the results of your research objectives and conclude the research outcomes with societal benefits.
- Use hyperlinks at appropriate places for presenting huge and important data (Datasets, experimental procedures, literatures).
- Ensure the quality of the images as it should be clear and readable.
- Limit your presentation slides to 50 to 55 slides.
- Check the flow and connectivity between each slide.
We hope this article would be very much useful for the Ph.D. research scholars who are preparing their defense presentation slides irrespective of their area of research. We wish you all the best!!!
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