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 you’re finishing your PhD then you will know a lot of people who have advice for you (sometimes whether you want it or not). Friends, colleagues, supervisors, researcher-development staff, random internet people with their daily blogs… How do you...
Where peers are your friends, colleagues, acquaintances and whatever other titles you can think of! Ask about their vivas. Ask about their experiences. Ask what they know about the viva. Ask them what they did to get ready and if...
I’m enjoying a nice summer break, but while I do I am missing sharing viva help in webinars. Before 2020 I’d already delivered viva sessions and workshops for a decade. With all of that combined experience – as you might...
Viva prep doesn’t take much, space it out, don’t overstress yourself by trying to do too much in too short a time- Good advice but if you are really under time pressure, if you just feel stress because of your...
It’s clear that most PhD vivas results in success. Ask your graduate school. Look online. Talk to people who have been through the process. The vast majority succeed. Corrections are part of the process and not a failure or setback....
If you check the viva regulations and talk with friends who have been through the process then you can start to appreciate the possible timing of your viva. Ask how long people had to wait for a viva date and...
Too often the viva is thought of as only a negative experience. Questions, Examiners, The End, Stress, Worry, What If, Failure, The Unknown… In advance of the viva, for many very understandable reasons, a candidate could expect it is going...
We can look at all of the numbers for the viva – pass rates, lengths, percentages of candidates told they’ve passed at the start, correlation of questions and disciplines – and see lots of little details about the general expectations....