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Nathan

Again

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The viva’s not the first time you’ve responded to questions about your work.

It’s not the first time in your PhD journey you’ve been tested.

You have to have risen to challenges many, many times to get to submission.

And your viva is not the first ever viva! Lots of people around you – and people who you don’t know on the internet – have experiences that can help you unpick what to do and how you could feel about your upcoming viva.

Again and again you’ve worked hard to get to this stage of your PhD. A little more will help you finish.

Nathan

Again

Daily Post

The viva’s not the first time you’ve had to respond to questions about your research.

The viva’s not the first time you’ve been asked about your contribution.

The viva’s not the first time you’ve really had to think hard about something.

And it’s unlikely that your viva is the second time you’ve had to do any of these, or the third, or the fourth.

Again and again throughout your PhD, in small and big ways, you grow, you learn and you become better than you were. Again and again you demonstrate that you are a talented, capable and knowledgeable researcher.

In the viva you have to do it again. One more time, but with all of that experience behind you.

You can do it. You’ve done it before, you can do it again.