Your Recipe For Success
“I want some of Daddy’s bread!” The bread I bake is a real winner in our house. It’s been refined over a hundred loaves and several years working at it. It’s a combination of ingredients and technique: from the ratios...
Daily viva help for PhDs
“I want some of Daddy’s bread!” The bread I bake is a real winner in our house. It’s been refined over a hundred loaves and several years working at it. It’s a combination of ingredients and technique: from the ratios...
It’s useful to get recommendations from others on lots of things connected with the viva. Suggestions on what makes for good and bad examiners. Ideas on what a good thesis looks like. Tips for viva preparation. Tools to help you...
Hi! This is an extra post for today to announce that I’m running my 7 Reasons You’ll Pass Your Viva webinar again on Wednesday 20th May. I’ve enjoyed the challenge and delight of sharing new short webinars with PhD candidates...
It will be like this. It will be like that. You need to do it this way. I did it that way. Check this book. Listen to that podcast. My friend said this. A friend of a friend had a...
Some time ago I had a request to do something on the academic job market and academic jobs. I had planned to do one long episode on academic jobs, but time and schedules worked against me in January. So I’ve...
In Episode 9 I’m talking with Dr Nadine Muller, a lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. She received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Hull earlier this year for her thesis...
I’ve been asking a lot of questions recently via the @VivaSurvivors Twitter account. I wanted to know about the experiences of PhD graduates, even if that meant polling people in 140 characters or less. I had an inkling that people...