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Or, “Whiteboards: Totally For The Win”! You’ll know the location of your viva in advance. Go check the room out. A whiteboard can be super handy in some vivas. If you have one you could… …explain an equation! …make a...
Daily viva help for PhDs
Or, “Whiteboards: Totally For The Win”! You’ll know the location of your viva in advance. Go check the room out. A whiteboard can be super handy in some vivas. If you have one you could… …explain an equation! …make a...
“Don’t worry my lad, this will sort it out.” My grandma was adamant that butter on a burn helped ease the pain. She’d always done it, had always known it was the thing to do. The afternoon passed and all...
In your records you see your story, even in outline. Got a lab book? Read it. Kept a diary? Give it the once-over. You probably have an electronic record of meetings with your supervisor, right? Look over those notes. What...
Last week I blogged about the Three Easy Wins idea for productivity, and shared some thoughts of what a candidate could do to get several quick pieces of viva prep done. If you were looking for something in the opposite...
Summarising your thesis or some aspect of it is useful. A summary helps you in two ways. First, through the act of creation: thinking about your work and then making something from those thoughts is a valuable reflection. Second, as...
It’s not realistic to expect your thesis to be perfect, but it’s important not to think that your thesis is just “OK.” “You’ve produced an average account of your satisfactory research.” No! Start by considering what’s excellent about your thesis!...
There’s always some admin around the viva. You can view it as bureaucracy or pointless or just more work, but it’s there for a reason. Check the regulations, check the forms, be sure and just get it done. If you...
My daughter has an advent calendar every year at Christmastime. Normally her aunt buys her a toy calendar: every day from the first of December to Christmas Eve she opens the little door and gets a little person or an...
I spend a good chunk of my work time on my way to do workshops or thinking about travel. I check train times and maps, I think about taxis, I look for hotels… …is it any wonder my dreams skew...
I’m a fan of the “three easy wins” productivity idea: simply put, start your day by getting three little victories. Clear that email out of your inbox, write down that short paragraph or check your blog feed for new posts....