The Good Kind Of Feedback
Certain kinds of feedback can be useful as you prepare for your viva. By that stage you can’t make any changes to your thesis. Feedback has to be carefully targeted to things you can change. If you have a mock...
Daily viva help for PhDs
Certain kinds of feedback can be useful as you prepare for your viva. By that stage you can’t make any changes to your thesis. Feedback has to be carefully targeted to things you can change. If you have a mock...
Feedback from your examiners could be a great help if your plan is to continue in academia. Questions, opinions, insights – whatever they offer or you ask for could give you a boost. If you’re hoping for something from them,...
Your examiner can not like something in your thesis. Maybe they don’t get it. Maybe they believe there was a better approach, or a different way to understand something. They’re allowed to have a different opinion; if they share it...
Years ago, my friend Dr Aimee Blackledge shared with me one of the most useful rules for receiving feedback I’ve ever come across. There are lots of models and ideas about giving feedback, but not so many concepts for receiving...
After submission there’s a nice opportunity to get a little feedback. Just a little, mind you, not too much. You know what you know. You know what you think. You probably have some idea of what your supervisor thinks too....
Heard of the feedback sandwich? It’s when you tell someone something good about their presentation/book/paper/whatever, then offer something constructive or negative, followed by something good. Good-“bad”-good. A feedback sandwich – it has another name, but this is a polite sort...
After submission and before the viva, feedback is still one of the most useful things you can go looking for as part of your prep. Make a list of who could really give you useful feedback: your supervisor, your office-mate,...
After you submit your thesis is a good time to get one last burst of feedback from your supervisors. Chances are that in the run-up to submission you could only get direct feedback on what you were writing – thoughts...
I was six and had painted my dad. A circle with a crude face, rectangle body, chunky arms and oval legs. I showed it to the teacher, Mrs M., and all she said was, “Does your father have a green...