Getting Help
Need help for your viva? Here are seven tips: Know what you need. It’s easier to get help if you can appreciate the gap that help helps with! If you’re not sure, reflect and try to put it into words....
Daily viva help for PhDs
Need help for your viva? Here are seven tips: Know what you need. It’s easier to get help if you can appreciate the gap that help helps with! If you’re not sure, reflect and try to put it into words....
Ask for help when you’re getting ready for your viva. Talk to your friends and colleagues in your department. Get them to listen to you talk about your work or ask about their experiences. Get the benefit of their help!...
If a friend or colleague asks for help with their viva prep then assist them if you can. Ask what they need and help with their request as much as you’re able. Perhaps they need to know what to expect...
Ask your supervisor about the best parts of your work. Ask friends and colleagues about the best parts of their vivas. Look to your graduate school or doctoral college for helpful resources for viva prep. Look to friends and family...
When you come to plan your viva prep consider what you want to have and how you want to feel when you’ve finished the work. What resources do you want to have made? What tasks do you have to complete?...
If you have any worries or concerns about your viva then take steps to address them. It sounds like really obvious advice, right? But I talk to hundreds and hundreds of PhD candidates every year who are worried about their...
As you prepare for your viva, always ask for help if you need it. Ask your supervisor for their advice or guidance, ask your friends about their vivas and ask your family and friends to support you as you get...
A lot of viva worries come from not knowing what to expect – so find out more. Read the regulations. Ask your supervisors. Talk to friends, talk to post-docs, talk to people who have been down the path to the...
During my PhD I came across the Mathematics Genealogy Project: an attempt to explore the family tree of mathematicians going back hundreds and hundreds of years. Maybe you have something similar in your discipline or maybe you have a general...
When you’re getting ready for your viva ask people who know about vivas. Get specific help rather than general impressions. When you’re getting ready ask people who know you for help. Ask friends about their experiences and for a little...