Friends & Colleagues
Part of being ready for your viva involves knowing your stuff: you need to read your thesis, you need to make notes and you need to rehearse for the viva. Part of being ready involves knowing what others know: you...
Daily viva help for PhDs
Part of being ready for your viva involves knowing your stuff: you need to read your thesis, you need to make notes and you need to rehearse for the viva. Part of being ready involves knowing what others know: you...
It’s better to ask for help before the viva when you know what you need help with. Reflecting on the problem or gap in knowledge can highlight who it’s best to ask. It’s easier to ask for help before the...
Around submission time reach out to your friends and colleagues in your department. For the particular friends who might know a little about your research, ask for time: can they listen to you talk about your work? Would they have...
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....