In short, you will earn your doctoral degree if you convince your examiners that your dissertation constitutes a significant and original contribution to knowledge<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Concretely, this will require you to have identified one (and ideally, only one) research question<\/strong>, and to have generated compelling findings in answer to <\/strong>this<\/em><\/strong> RQ<\/strong> (and nothing else). <\/p>\n\n\n\n For your findings to be assessed to be compelling, you must have (sufficiently) respected the four \u2018cardinal virtues\u2019 of a scholarly study: coherence, justification, comprehensiveness and clarity<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In turn, for these virtues to be recognised to have been sufficiently respected, you will have had to pay attention to a number of various elements, as represented in the following diagram, explained in this 10-minute video<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Marie-B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Dembour This post is not about evidence in international human rights adjudication, but about what examiners are looking for in a PhD (whatever the discipline). It links to a recording where, powerpoint click by powerpoint click, I explain what doctoral examiners are looking for – and thus what you as a doctoral student shouldContinue reading “Mapping out the Requirements of a PhD”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geen-categorie","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dissect.ugent.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PhD-requ-One-slide-.png\")
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