Doctoral defence - Yewondwossen Tesfaye Gemechu

Doctoral student: Yewondwossen Tesfaye Gemechu

Major: Supply Chain Management and Social responsibility

Thesis title: Neoliberalism in everyday governmentality: The conduct of rural drinking water and rainwater practices

Opponent and university: Rohit Varman - University of Birmingham

Chair: Nikodemus Solitander

The complete doctoral thesis can be read via this link. 

The press release with more information on the thesis can be found here.

The doctoral defence will be held by video conference.

Access the video conference via Teams here.

The video conference opens 15 minutes before the start of the defence. 

An online doctoral defence follows the same guidelines as a traditional physical doctoral defence.

During the video conference the following guidelines apply to the audience:

- access to the video conference opens fifteen minutes before the defence starts;

- it is preferred that the audience joins the meeting fifteen minutes before the start of the defence;

- during the defence, the audience’s microphones are muted, cameras are turned off, recording is not allowed, and the chat function is not to be used until permitted by the Custos;

- members of the audience who wish to make comments concerning the thesis can to ask the Custos for the floor in the chat function that opens after the opponent finishes.