Mariana J López
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Mariana J López
@marianajlopez.bsky.social
Professor in Sound Production and Post Production, Sound Designer, Educator. Researcher in acoustical heritage and accessibility through sound design. Zumba instructor. Latina. She/Her https://marianajlopez.com/
Reach out to your supervisor too, they should be helping too - if you want them to of course
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I would also suggest practising summarising your work, it's a common first question in vivas. I would include what it was about, why it matters, main methods used and the findings.
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My main advise (you might already have done this) is to have a mock viva. It really helps with thinking on how to best phrase responses and it's a good opportunity to see what needs revisiting and what you already feel quite confident about.
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Great work! It looks beautiful! 🐰
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Absolutely! A lot of speakers don't realise that there are accessibility considerations when things overrun.
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I often talk to my students about 'free flowing' writing, literally I just sit down and write/type about a topic, anything that I'm thinking about, I don't worry about typos, grammar, structure, I don't worry about it making sense or not. It helps getting a sense of progress.
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Thank you so much for sharing. I would also suggest thinking about accessibility more generally, I wrote a blog post that also reflects on other forms of accessibility and has a video that explains some of those decisions as well enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...
Reflecting on the DARCI Conference – Enhancing Audio Description
On beautiful, creative and thought-provoking access and representation: reflecting on the DARCI Conference.
enhancingaudiodescription.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Great piece! Really enjoyed reading it.
October 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Surprisingly 🤣
October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
At least they know I have good taste 🤣
October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Thank you 😊
October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
October 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM