Opposition

• critically examine the quality of the bachelor's project carried out and the bachelor's report.
• identify both weaknesses and strengths.
• conduct a constructive dialogue and a discussion about how the work could have been done differently.
• if you need more inspiration you can look at an external source, for example uppsatsguiden.se

Some practical details:

• Your own report is uploaded in Lisam under the folder "Collaborative workspace/Group XX/Rapport/Opposition" where XX is the group number, together with a change log showing what measures/changes have been made since the previous submission and where these can be found for each comment the group has received on the report from the course management. Agree with those you are opposing on when the report should be uploaded in Lisam if there are wishes for it to be uploaded earlier than the deadline in the schedule in TimeEdit.
• When preparing the opposition, reflect on the content and base your work on the Assessment template for the bachelor's report and answer the following questions. The opposition including the assessment and answers shall be uploaded in Lisam in the same folder where the opponent group's report is located: "Collaborative workspace/Group XX/Rapport-opposition" where XX is the opponent's group number.
  
• Decide yourselves whether to use a PowerPoint presentation or not.
• An examination requirement is that each individual student must have attended 2 oppositions concerning a project other than their own and the one they opposed.
• The supervisor and examiner also make an assessment which is communicated to the groups (see the Sprints page and schedule in TimeEdit for exact time), and the bachelor's reports that are approved for presentation will be presented.
• There are WebReg groups to register for. Each group has been given 3 WebReg groups so each group has 3 opposition opportunities. Each group divides itself into 3 internal subgroups. In each WebReg group, 4 different subgroups participate. In each WebReg group you can see when and where the opposition takes place and which groups shall oppose. E.g. WebReg group 01: at 8:00 Groups: 4,2,3,10 means that for WebReg group 01 the opposition takes place at 8:00-09:00 for groups 4,2,3,10 where:
  - group 4 opposes group 2
  - group 2 opposes group 3
  - group 3 opposes group 10.
  - group 10 opposes group 4.
  Each group member shall go into WebReg and register according to the figure below:

  The same principle applies for all WebReg groups. This means that each group receives feedback from 3 other groups.
  

  Remember that the opposition shall be done both orally and in writing as described above. The written opposition shall be uploaded in Lisam under the respondent's folder where the report is located no later than the same day as the opposition.

• Go to WebReg to register for an opposition occasion

   

Each presentation of a bachelor's project shall take 30 minutes. The oral presentation must of course be well prepared:

• Reports that are approved for presentation shall be presented.
• The language at the presentation is English or Swedish. We recommend English as it sometimes happens that the only person watching the presentation is a PhD student with limited knowledge of Swedish. See it as practice in presenting in English - it is not the end of the world if you get stuck on a few words or slip in a Swedish word when you cannot remember the translation.
• The presentation is about the bachelor's report.
• Think through what you want to say and write bullet points. 30 minutes is a short time and you need to cover a lot, so good preparation is essential. The presentation shall serve as an appetiser for the bachelor's report. You shall present the research question, give a description of what you have done, what results you arrived at, what problems you encountered and what you did not manage to solve, the results, the conclusions, what you have learned and what experiences you take with you. Choose carefully what you want to address. Do not demonstrate the application.
• Decide yourselves whether to use a PowerPoint presentation or not.
• During the day there will be several parallel presentations (see WebReg!).
• Registration for the presentation is done in WebReg and it is first come, first served, so you get the time slot in the order you register.

• Each student shall observe 2 different oppositions in addition to the one they conducted (so in addition to their own report and the report they opposed). This means that each student attends a total of 4 oppositions for 4 different reports: the opposition on their own report, the respondent's opposition, and opposition on 2 other different reports.
• During each opposition session the student has registered for, there are a total of 4 reports to be opposed (the student's own report, the report the student opposes, and 2 further reports). If the student is present throughout the entire opposition session they have completed the opposition observation. E.g. for the WebReg group where groups 4,2,3,10 oppose each other the following applies:
  • student from group 4 opposes group 2 and observes reports 3 and 10
  • student from group 2 opposes group 3 and observes reports 4 and 10
  • student from group 3 opposes group 10 and observes reports 4 and 2
  • student from group 10 opposes group 4 and observes reports 2 and 3
• The student must make sure to sign the observation attendance list.
• Note that it is difficult to avoid technical problems, so expect that the times given above may be approximate; arrive a bit early and plan for it potentially running overtime.

• Each student shall attend 2 different presentations that are not their own report or the report they opposed.
• No prior registration is needed to attend an observation. You join a presentation session before it starts. The student must make sure to sign the observation attendance list.
• E.g. if you belong to group 1 and have opposed group 3, you shall attend two other presentations that are not for group 1 or 3 but for two others and different, e.g. group 7 and 9. Note that it must be two different reports you observe, so attending the presentation for group 7 twice counts as one observation.
• Note that it is difficult to avoid technical problems, so expect that the times given above may be approximate; arrive a bit early and plan for it potentially running overtime.