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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Shannan Donald <shannan.donald@strath.ac.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 17 April 2020 10:34<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fw: Updated Guidelines for conducing a 'Virtual' Viva</font>
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Eleanor Shaw has requesting that the information below be sent to all PGR's please?</div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style=""> Eleanor Shaw
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<b>Sent:</b> 16 April 2020 17:22<br>
<b>To:</b> Mark Ellis <m.ellis@strath.ac.uk>; Bernard Conway <b.a.conway@strath.ac.uk>; Matthew Alexander <matthew.j.alexander@strath.ac.uk>; Robert Martin <r.w.martin@strath.ac.uk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Stephanie Colvan <stephanie.colvan@strath.ac.uk>; Gabrielle Milson <gabrielle.milson@strath.ac.uk>; Yvonne Perrie <yvonne.perrie@strath.ac.uk>; Atilla Incecik <atilla.incecik@strath.ac.uk>; David Hillier <david.hillier@strath.ac.uk>; Douglas Brodie
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<b>Subject:</b> Updated Guidelines for conducing a 'Virtual' Viva<br>
<b>Importance:</b> High</span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F4E79">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F4E79">Please find attached the Guidelines which Education Strategy Committee has approved for conducting a virtual viva. I have emailed our Strathclyde Doctoral Community today with a copy of these.
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<span style="color:#1F4E79">Can I please ask for your help in circulating these guidelines to all supervisors and APS colleagues involved in administering PGR programmes in each of your Faculties. Can you please draw everyone’s attention to point 1.5:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#1F4E79">‘1.5 The decision to hold a viva by video conferencing must have the prior consent of the student (candidate), supervisor and examiners and in no case should the decision to use video-conferencing place the student
at a disadvantage.’ </span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F4E79">This means that if all parties are happy (student, supervisor and examiners), there is no reason for any vivas to be postponed as a result of Covid-related restrictions. When I met with our PhD students yesterday at the virtual weekly
meet-ups which we have introduced, students expressed concern that some supervisors had told their students that their viva would now be postponed as a consequence of Covid-related restrictions. This is not the case as point 1.5 makes clear.</span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F4E79">I will also post these guidelines on the new Strathclyde Doctoral School (SDS) MyPlace site which can be found here:
<a href="https://classes.myplace.strath.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=24920"><span style="color:#1F4E79">https://classes.myplace.strath.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=24920</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F4E79">This new site has been created to provide one central point for all SDS communications. We also intend to use this site to encourage, through forums, discussions, the sharing of information and copies of any materials used during
weekly meet ups. Can you please encourage particularly PGR administrators to access this site.
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<span style="color:#1F4E79">Many thanks for your help in circulating these communications.</span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F4E79">Very best wishes</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC"; color:#1F497D">Eleanor</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="color:#1F497D">Eleanor Shaw </span></b><span style="color:#1F497D">MA, PhD</span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">Email: <a href="mailto:eleanor.shaw@strath.ac.uk">eleanor.shaw@strath.ac.uk</a></span></p>
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