CS Design Thesis Platform 2023-
PART 2: Fieldwork, Analysis & Oral presentation
Thesis PART 2 comprises the work that you do to gain more knowledge about your topic (probably a mix of empirical work and design activities depending on your method(s), as well as reading and writing). In PART 2 use the thesis text as a medium for organizing and working with data and ideas. Thesis PART 2 includes an oral presentation of your thesis.
Thesis PART 2 credits will be issued when you have presented your thesis, preferably at one of the CS Design PART 2 presentation days. Part 2 text should be approved by the supervisor before the presentation. Please register in MyCourses and inform your supervisor if you want to present your thesis as part of the CS Design presentation day. The presentations should be planned for 10 min duration.
The thesis text should include at this point the following:
1) You describe your methodology. (‘What did you do?’). Reflect on how the work unfolded in respect to the plan.
2) You document the new data you have collected in a way that is useful to you. (‘What did you manage to gather and collect?’). Reflect on the sufficiency and reliability of the data or the informativeness of your production.
3) You explain what you have been doing with your data. This is your analytical method. (Think of this step as describing your next steps after collecting data).
4) You describe what is emerging from your analysis. Organise your data. Treat/analyse your own data with the help of the concepts from PART 1 (Extended Thesis Plan). (Think about this as reporting what you observe when you engage with your data with the selected conceptual lenses, tools and frameworks).
Item 1) and 3) will be directly useful for writing about methods and data in the final thesis. Item 4) is more tentative, but you do need to present some initial interpretations of the data in a conceptual language that will fit the final text, even if your results are still pending.
If your thesis is a design project, the same steps apply. You need to describe what you did, what was created, your approaches to analyzing the outcome, and the tentative results of the analysis.
Thesis PART 2 should follow your Extended Thesis Plan (Thesis PART 1). If your plan requires major adjustments, negotiate these with your supervisor/advisor and also let your supervisor know about significant alterations. You will ideally make use of your Thesis Plan Proposal and Extended Thesis Plan in PART 2.
Please submit your full thesis draft before the PART 2 presentation day to your supervisor. Some supervisors have their own MyCourses page for full-text submission, please check with them if they want you to submit directly on their page. Here is a list of supervisor's MyCourses page:
PART 2 oral presentation is a mandatory part of thesis work and needs to be completed before the final thesis hand-in in eAge. When your thesis is ready to be evaluated, please participate in one of the CS Design PART 2 presentation days to get an examination permission from your supervisor. The oral presentation must be completed before examination permission can be given.