No More
The viva means no more. No more time. No more writing. No more reading. No more meetings. No more experiments or interviews or models. No more prep. No more re-reading. No more wondering about what will or won’t come up....
Daily viva help for PhDs
The viva means no more. No more time. No more writing. No more reading. No more meetings. No more experiments or interviews or models. No more prep. No more re-reading. No more wondering about what will or won’t come up....
My dad passed away quite suddenly when I was 17. Today would have been his 70th birthday, and he’s been on my mind a lot lately. When I was little my dad was often self-employed. He had been made redundant...
There’s no secret path that takes you to the end of the PhD. There’s no list of amazing tips that dodges all of the work involved. You can’t hack your way past the necessary steps that got your thesis finished....
Thesis done? Submitted? Take at least two weeks off. Take two weeks away from reading your thesis, making notes or trying to unpick what all that work has been about. There is plenty of time to prepare for the viva....
One way to look at the viva is that it’s the end of the PhD. The finish line. The finale. You’ll probably have corrections to do, but in your mind, this is it, the end. Except… It’s not. Not by...
…it’s possible that you forget something. …it’s possible you don’t understand something. …it’s possible that you realise something. …it’s possible that you think about something. …it’s possible that you doubt yourself. …it’s possible that you convince your examiner. …it’s possible...
You had them when you did the research, right? The talent to do the work and the time to get it done. It’s all still available for the viva.
I work on experiential learning workshops several times a year. “Three Whats” is one of the techniques we use to get participants reflecting. Typically we’d use them in sequence to encourage reflection after an activity or task: What just happened?...
I sometimes think viva preparation is like renovating a house. Annotating your thesis is like hanging wallpaper. Making a summary is like knocking a wall through to let in more light. A mock viva could be repairing the roof, making...
I’m rounding 2017 off with five days of link sharing for five different areas I’ve posted on this year. Reflections is the catch-all category I have for posts which are when I’m pondering and musing over the viva. I spend...