[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":431},["ShallowReactive",2],{"answers-\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhat-happens-if-a-viva-goes-badly":3,"answers-cluster-phd-life":109,"answers-related-\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhat-happens-if-a-viva-goes-badly":149},{"id":4,"title":5,"answer":6,"body":7,"cluster":72,"description":73,"extension":74,"faq":75,"heading":78,"intro":66,"kind":79,"meta":80,"navigation":81,"order":82,"outbound":83,"path":90,"primaryQuery":91,"product":92,"related":93,"seo":95,"sources":96,"stem":107,"updated":100,"__hash__":108},"answers\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhat-happens-if-a-viva-goes-badly.md","What Happens If a Viva Goes Badly?","Outright failure is rare. The common outcomes are pass with minor corrections, pass with major corrections, or resubmission with a second examination. Only a small fraction of candidates who reach a viva are failed outright, and most who do not pass immediately are given a route to a doctorate.",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":65},"minimark",[10,14,17,20,23,26,31,34,37,40,43,47,50,53,56,59,62],[11,12,13],"p",{},"The fear is worth putting in proportion. By the time you reach a viva, a supervisor has read the thesis and agreed it is ready, and examiners have read it before the meeting. The examination is not a coin flip on years of work, and outright failure at this stage is uncommon precisely because several people have already judged the work submittable.",[11,15,16],{},"Corrections are the normal outcome, and the word is misleading. A thesis with corrections has passed on the substance and needs textual work, which is a different thing from a thesis that failed. Most candidates are in this category.",[11,18,19],{},"Where a viva does go badly, the cause is usually visible in advance. A thesis submitted against supervisory advice, an unaddressed methodological problem, or a contribution that was never clearly stated. If any of those describe your situation, the time to act is before submission rather than after.",[11,21,22],{},"The other thing worth knowing is that outcomes are decided by examiners, not by how the conversation felt. Candidates routinely leave a viva convinced it went badly and receive minor corrections, because a demanding conversation is what a viva is supposed to be.",[11,24,25],{},"If the result does go against you, the worst response is to hide it. Failure is part of ordinary academic work and is worth using for learning and coping rather than ignoring, and hiding it tends to produce negative feelings and, in some cases, serious mental health consequences (Gaillard et al., 2022, p. 1). The same authors refuse to prescribe one universal response, because academics sit in very different circumstances, so their rules are meant to help you build your own strategy rather than follow a script (Gaillard et al., 2022, p. 1).",[27,28,30],"h2",{"id":29},"what-do-the-possible-viva-outcomes-mean","What do the possible viva outcomes mean?",[11,32,33],{},"Minor corrections means typographical and small textual fixes, usually within three months. Major corrections means substantial rewriting, usually within six. Resubmission means significant additional work and a second examination, typically within twelve to eighteen months. Award of a lower degree and outright fail are the rare outcomes.",[11,35,36],{},"The exact categories and deadlines are set by your institution and are written in the examination regulations. Read them before the viva, since knowing the possible outcomes makes the decision letter much less frightening.",[11,38,39],{},"Get the required corrections in writing and in detail. A clear list is something you can work through, and an ambiguous one causes months of uncertainty. It is reasonable to ask for clarification.",[11,41,42],{},"Then discuss the list with someone. Gaillard et al. recommend building networks where failure can be talked about openly, using those conversations to identify the specific error or to prevent the next one, and separating what you are personally responsible for from the systemic conditions that produced the outcome (Gaillard et al., 2022, p. 8). They add a caveat that matters here. Watching other people discuss their setbacks puts your own in perspective and shows you what coping looks like, but the freedom to fail publicly is not distributed equally, and a private lab meeting is a legitimate alternative to posting about it (Gaillard et al., 2022, pp. 3-7). Pick a channel you are safe in, which may be your supervisor, one trusted peer, or student support, not social media.",[27,44,46],{"id":45},"how-common-are-major-corrections","How common are major corrections?",[11,48,49],{},"Common enough to be unremarkable. In most systems the large majority of candidates receive corrections of some kind, and receiving major ones is a normal outcome rather than a mark against you. Passing with no corrections at all is the genuinely unusual result.",[11,51,52],{},"Nothing about the corrections category appears on your certificate or your CV. Once completed and approved, the degree is the same degree.",[11,54,55],{},"If the outcome is resubmission, treat it as a scoped project rather than a verdict. Examiners who ask for resubmission are saying the work can reach the standard, and most candidates in this position do complete.",[11,57,58],{},"Run the resubmission the way Marino et al. describe running the final year. Agree a written plan with your supervisor, review progress against it every few weeks, build in room for problems you did not anticipate, and use your supervisor to settle what each chapter has to contain (Marino et al., 2014, p. 1). They also make a point that applies directly after a hard viva. There is no such thing as a perfect thesis, and collecting more data or delaying the writing pushes your deadline out without reliably making the thesis better (Marino et al., 2014, p. 2).",[11,60,61],{},"Watch your own state while you work through it. Bravata et al. reviewed 62 studies of impostor feelings and found that almost all were single-arm observational designs with only one longitudinal study, so nothing in that literature shows a bad viva causes distress (Bravata et al., 2020, p. 1253). What it does record is a survey of 477 health professions graduate students in which 30 percent showed impostor phenomenon symptoms and 62 percent showed psychological distress (Bravata et al., 2020, p. 1261). Those are not post-viva figures, but they are a reason to treat severe distress as something to get help for rather than as the normal cost of a doctorate.",[11,63,64],{},"Whatever the outcome, take a few days before starting the corrections. The list reads very differently once the adrenaline has gone, and most of it turns out to be smaller than it looked on the day.",{"title":66,"searchDepth":67,"depth":67,"links":68},"",4,[69,71],{"id":29,"depth":70,"text":30},2,{"id":45,"depth":70,"text":46},"phd-life","What the possible outcomes of a PhD viva actually mean, how common major corrections are, and what happens in the rare case of an outright fail.","md",[76,77],{"q":30,"a":33},{"q":46,"a":49},"What happens if you fail a PhD viva?","answer",{},true,3,[84,87],{"label":85,"to":86},"Imposter syndrome, and what the research says","\u002Fblog\u002Fimposter-syndrome-what-the-research-says",{"label":88,"to":89},"Version history and provenance","\u002Fdocs\u002Fworking-with-the-agent\u002Fversion-history-and-provenance","\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhat-happens-if-a-viva-goes-badly","what happens if you fail your phd viva",null,[94],"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fstructure-a-phd-thesis",{"title":5,"description":73},[97,101,104],{"label":98,"url":99,"checked":100},"Gaillard et al., Ten simple rules for failing successfully in academia, PLoS Computational Biology (2022)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.1010538","2026-08-06",{"label":102,"url":103,"checked":100},"Marino et al., Ten simple rules for finishing your PhD, PLoS Computational Biology (2014)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1371\u002Fjournal.pcbi.1003954",{"label":105,"url":106,"checked":100},"Bravata et al., Prevalence, Predictors, and Treatment of Impostor Syndrome: a Systematic Review, Journal of General Internal Medicine (2020)","https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1007\u002Fs11606-019-05364-1","answers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhat-happens-if-a-viva-goes-badly","nOo20fvncZqz3DWkCV8P6cfaBrwkR-nHmWADBxLq8I8",[110,115,119,120,124,129,134,139,144],{"path":111,"heading":112,"description":113,"order":114},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fprepare-for-a-phd-viva","How do I prepare for a PhD viva?","What to do in the weeks before a PhD viva, the questions that come up in almost every one, how long a viva lasts, and what to take into the room.",1,{"path":116,"heading":117,"description":118,"order":70},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fdefend-your-methodology-in-a-viva","How do I defend my methodology in a viva?","How to defend methodological choices under examination, what to say about a decision you would now make differently, and how to handle a question you cannot answer.",{"path":90,"heading":78,"description":73,"order":82},{"path":121,"heading":122,"description":123,"order":67},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fimposter-syndrome-in-a-phd","How do I deal with imposter syndrome during a PhD?","Why imposter feelings are so common in doctoral study, whether feeling like a fraud is normal, and which responses actually reduce it rather than feeding it.",{"path":125,"heading":126,"description":127,"order":128},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fstop-procrastinating-on-your-phd","How do I stop procrastinating on my PhD?","Why research procrastination is different from ordinary procrastination, what usually causes it, and the smallest useful way to restart when nothing is moving.",5,{"path":130,"heading":131,"description":132,"order":133},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwhen-your-supervisor-is-not-supportive","What do I do when my PhD supervisor is not supportive?","What to do when supervision is not working, how to run a supervision meeting that produces something, and when changing supervisor is the right decision.",6,{"path":135,"heading":136,"description":137,"order":138},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fplan-a-realistic-phd-timeline","How do I plan a realistic PhD timeline?","How to build a doctoral timeline you can actually keep, which stages reliably take longer than planned, and how to recover a schedule that has already slipped.",7,{"path":140,"heading":141,"description":142,"order":143},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fwrite-an-academic-cv","How do I write an academic CV for a postdoc application?","What belongs in an academic CV for a postdoc application, what order the sections go in, and how to handle a thin publication list without apologizing for it.",8,{"path":145,"heading":146,"description":147,"order":148},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fphd-life\u002Fpostdoc-or-industry","Should I do a postdoc or go to industry after my PhD?","How to decide between a postdoc and an industry role after a doctorate, what the decision actually hinges on, and whether you can return to academia later.",9,[150,153,156,159,161,164,167,170,173,176,179,182,185,188,191,194,197,200,203,206,209,212,215,218,221,224,227,230,233,236,239,242,245,248,251,254,257,260,263,266,269,272,275,278,281,284,287,290,291,292,293,294,295,296,297,298,299,302,305,308,311,314,317,320,323,326,329,332,335,338,341,344,347,350,353,356,359,362,365,368,371,374,377,380,383,386,389,392,395,398,401,404,407,410,413,416,419,422,425,428],{"path":151,"heading":152},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fdraft-without-stopping-for-citations","How do I draft when I keep stopping to look up citations?",{"path":154,"heading":155},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fhow-long-should-a-literature-review-chapter-be","How long should a literature review chapter be?",{"path":157,"heading":158},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fparaphrase-without-plagiarizing","How do I paraphrase a source without plagiarizing?",{"path":94,"heading":160},"How do I structure a PhD thesis chapter by chapter?",{"path":162,"heading":163},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fthesis-by-publication-or-monograph","Should I do a thesis by publication or a monograph?",{"path":165,"heading":166},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-discussion-section","How do I write a discussion section without repeating the results?",{"path":168,"heading":169},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-methodology-chapter","How do I write a methodology chapter?",{"path":171,"heading":172},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-a-thesis-introduction","How do I write a thesis introduction?",{"path":174,"heading":175},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-an-abstract","How do I write an abstract for a research paper?",{"path":177,"heading":178},"\u002Fanswers\u002Facademic-writing\u002Fwrite-consistently-during-a-phd","How do I write consistently during a PhD?",{"path":180,"heading":181},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fai-for-systematic-review-screening","Can I use AI for screening in a systematic review?",{"path":183,"heading":184},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fare-ai-detectors-reliable","Are AI detectors reliable?",{"path":186,"heading":187},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-an-ai-be-an-author","Can an AI tool be listed as an author on a paper?",{"path":189,"heading":190},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-i-use-ai-for-a-literature-review","Can I use AI for a literature review?",{"path":192,"heading":193},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fcan-you-trust-an-ai-summary","Can I trust AI summaries of research papers?",{"path":195,"heading":196},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fdisclose-ai-use-in-a-paper","Do I need to disclose AI use in a research paper?",{"path":198,"heading":199},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fhow-to-cite-chatgpt","How do I cite ChatGPT in APA 7?",{"path":201,"heading":202},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fis-using-chatgpt-plagiarism","Is using ChatGPT for academic writing plagiarism?",{"path":204,"heading":205},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-in-a-phd-thesis","Can I use AI in a PhD thesis?",{"path":207,"heading":208},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fusing-ai-to-write-a-peer-review","Can I use AI to help write a peer review?",{"path":210,"heading":211},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fverify-ai-generated-citations","How do I check whether AI-generated citations are real?",{"path":213,"heading":214},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fwhy-ai-answers-better-on-your-own-pdfs","Why does an AI answer better when it reads my own PDFs?",{"path":216,"heading":217},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fai-in-research\u002Fwhy-chatgpt-invents-references","Why does ChatGPT make up references?",{"path":219,"heading":220},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcheck-every-claim-against-its-citation","How do I check that every claim in my thesis is supported by its citation?",{"path":222,"heading":223},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcite-the-paper-you-read-or-the-original","Should I cite the paper I read or the original study it references?",{"path":225,"heading":226},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fcited-source-does-not-say-that","What do I do when a paper's cited source does not support its claim?",{"path":228,"heading":229},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-paper-you-cannot-access","Can I cite a paper I cannot get hold of?",{"path":231,"heading":232},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fciting-a-review-instead-of-the-original","Is citing a review instead of the original research bad practice?",{"path":234,"heading":235},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fdo-i-need-to-cite-everything","Do I need to cite absolutely everything in a thesis?",{"path":237,"heading":238},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fhow-much-self-citation","How much self-citation is acceptable?",{"path":240,"heading":241},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fjournal-page-number-or-pdf-page-number","Do I use the journal page number or the PDF page number in a citation?",{"path":243,"heading":244},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fquoting-a-source-in-another-language","How do I quote a source in another language in an English thesis?",{"path":246,"heading":247},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fwhere-does-the-citation-go","Where should a citation go when only one clause in a sentence needs support?",{"path":249,"heading":250},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fyou-described-a-result-too-broadly","How do I fix a sentence that describes a study's result too broadly?",{"path":252,"heading":253},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fcitations\u002Fzotero-or-mendeley","Should I use Zotero or Mendeley for a PhD?",{"path":255,"heading":256},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fbuild-a-synthesis-matrix","How do I build a synthesis matrix when my themes keep changing as I read?",{"path":258,"heading":259},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fkeep-a-literature-review-current","How do I keep a literature review current over a multi-year PhD?",{"path":261,"heading":262},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-synthesis-or-summary","How do I know if my literature review is synthesis or just a summary?",{"path":264,"heading":265},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fliterature-review-too-descriptive","What does it mean when a supervisor says a literature review is too descriptive?",{"path":267,"heading":268},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fnarrative-scoping-or-systematic-review","What is the difference between a narrative literature review and a systematic review?",{"path":270,"heading":271},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Forganize-literature-review-by-argument","How do I organize a literature review by argument instead of by paper?",{"path":273,"heading":274},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Freview-that-leads-to-your-question","How do I write a literature review that leads logically to my research question?",{"path":276,"heading":277},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fscreening-abstracts-for-a-review","How do I screen hundreds of abstracts for a systematic review?",{"path":279,"heading":280},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fstudies-with-opposite-conclusions","What do I write when two studies on the same question reach opposite conclusions?",{"path":282,"heading":283},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsynthesis-matrix-into-paragraphs","How do I turn a synthesis matrix into literature review paragraphs?",{"path":285,"heading":286},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fsystematic-review-search-strategy","How do I build a search strategy for a systematic review?",{"path":288,"heading":289},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fliterature-review\u002Fwhen-to-stop-searching-for-papers","How do I know when to stop searching for papers for a literature review?",{"path":116,"heading":117},{"path":121,"heading":122},{"path":135,"heading":136},{"path":145,"heading":146},{"path":111,"heading":112},{"path":125,"heading":126},{"path":90,"heading":78},{"path":130,"heading":131},{"path":140,"heading":141},{"path":300,"heading":301},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fchoose-a-journal","How do I choose a journal for my paper?",{"path":303,"heading":304},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fdo-you-pay-to-publish-open-access","Do I have to pay to publish open access?",{"path":306,"heading":307},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-author-order-is-decided","How is author order decided on a paper?",{"path":309,"heading":310},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-peer-review-works","How does journal peer review actually work?",{"path":312,"heading":313},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fhow-to-cite-a-preprint","How do I cite a preprint?",{"path":315,"heading":316},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fjournal-submission-cover-letter","How do I write a cover letter for a journal submission?",{"path":318,"heading":319},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Frespond-to-reviewer-comments","How do I respond to peer reviewer comments?",{"path":321,"heading":322},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fshould-you-post-a-preprint","Should I post my paper as a preprint?",{"path":324,"heading":325},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fspot-a-predatory-journal","How do I tell if a journal is predatory?",{"path":327,"heading":328},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fpublishing\u002Fwhy-papers-get-desk-rejected","Why was my paper desk rejected?",{"path":330,"heading":331},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ffind-the-paper-you-half-remember","How do I find a paper when I only remember the argument it made?",{"path":333,"heading":334},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fhighlighting-pdfs-stops-working","Why can I never find my PDF highlights again?",{"path":336,"heading":337},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fhow-many-papers-can-you-read-a-day","How many papers can a PhD student realistically read in a day?",{"path":339,"heading":340},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fkeep-up-with-new-papers","How do I keep up with new papers without reading everything?",{"path":342,"heading":343},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fnon-english-studies-in-a-review","How do I include non-English studies in a literature review?",{"path":345,"heading":346},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fnote-system-takes-too-long","What do I do when my note-taking system takes longer than reading the papers?",{"path":348,"heading":349},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Forganize-100-papers","How do I organize and extract information from more than 100 papers?",{"path":351,"heading":352},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Freading-papers-in-a-second-language","How do I read research papers efficiently when English is my second language?",{"path":354,"heading":355},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Fremember-what-a-paper-said","How do I remember what was in papers I read months ago?",{"path":357,"heading":358},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Frestart-a-project-after-months-away","How do I get back into a research project after months away?",{"path":360,"heading":361},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftrack-connections-between-papers","How do I keep track of connections between papers?",{"path":363,"heading":364},"\u002Fanswers\u002Freading-and-notes\u002Ftriage-pdfs-before-reading","How do I triage 200 PDFs before deciding which ones to read in full?",{"path":366,"heading":367},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fanonymize-qualitative-data","How do I anonymize qualitative interview data?",{"path":369,"heading":370},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Ffair-data-principles-in-practice","What are the FAIR data principles?",{"path":372,"heading":373},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Forganize-research-data-files","How do I organize research data files?",{"path":375,"heading":376},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwhat-preregistration-is","What is preregistration in research?",{"path":378,"heading":379},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-data\u002Fwrite-a-data-management-plan","How do I write a data management plan?",{"path":381,"heading":382},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fchoose-a-theoretical-framework","How do I choose a theoretical framework for my thesis?",{"path":384,"heading":385},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Ffind-a-research-gap","How do I identify a research gap in the literature?",{"path":387,"heading":388},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fis-my-research-gap-original","How do I know if my research gap is original?",{"path":390,"heading":391},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fnarrow-a-broad-research-question","How do I narrow down a research question that is too broad?",{"path":393,"heading":394},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-changed-mid-phd","Can a research question change during a PhD?",{"path":396,"heading":397},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fresearch-question-or-hypothesis","What is the difference between a research question and a hypothesis?",{"path":399,"heading":400},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fturn-a-topic-into-a-research-question","How do I turn a research topic into a research question?",{"path":402,"heading":403},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwhat-makes-a-good-research-question","What makes a good research question in a PhD thesis?",{"path":405,"heading":406},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-gaps\u002Fwrite-a-research-gap-statement","How do I write a research gap statement?",{"path":408,"heading":409},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fchoose-a-statistical-test","How do I choose which statistical test to use?",{"path":411,"heading":412},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fhow-many-interviews-is-enough","How many interviews are enough for a qualitative study?",{"path":414,"heading":415},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fhow-to-do-thematic-analysis","How do I do thematic analysis step by step?",{"path":417,"heading":418},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Finductive-or-deductive-coding","What is the difference between inductive and deductive thematic analysis?",{"path":420,"heading":421},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fintegrate-mixed-methods-data","How do I integrate qualitative and quantitative data in a mixed methods study?",{"path":423,"heading":424},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Frigour-in-qualitative-research","How do I show rigour in qualitative research?",{"path":426,"heading":427},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fwhat-a-p-value-means","What does a p value actually mean?",{"path":429,"heading":430},"\u002Fanswers\u002Fresearch-methods\u002Fwork-out-your-sample-size","How do I calculate the sample size for a study?",1786014769700]