Ten Questions For Pre-Viva Nerves
It’s understandable to be nervous, anxious or scared about the viva. It’s not just any other day of your PhD. You can be nervous, and hope that it doesn’t affect you too much, or you can be nervous and think...
Daily viva help for PhDs
It’s understandable to be nervous, anxious or scared about the viva. It’s not just any other day of your PhD. You can be nervous, and hope that it doesn’t affect you too much, or you can be nervous and think...
A summary is an answer to a question. For a postgraduate researcher with their viva in the future the question could be: How can I describe this concisely? How can I explain this to a novice? How can I display...
I often encourage people to use “top fives” to start a summary or reflection. Get a list of five going and you have something to build on. There’s a lot you can think about when you’re preparing for the viva,...
If you’re looking for a way to share a summary of your research, as you might in the viva, think Why-How-What: Why is your topic worth researching? How have you gone about researching it? What have you found? Every time...
In workshops I ask people to come up with lists of five highlights in their thesis, or five important papers that they’ve used in their bibliography. For many this isn’t too tricky a task, three or four come quite easy...