Want/Need
In the UK, wanting to be a PhD means needing to have a viva. A lot could be done to help postgraduate researchers be prepared for the viva – even from the early stages of the PhD – if we...
Daily viva help for PhDs
In the UK, wanting to be a PhD means needing to have a viva. A lot could be done to help postgraduate researchers be prepared for the viva – even from the early stages of the PhD – if we...
There are regulations for vivas, and expectations for vivas, but all vivas are different. Some are more different than others. My viva took four hours. That makes it different from most, by comparison a long viva. I gave a presentation...
I was recently asked how many questions a candidate might get in the viva. What is the range like? wondered the nervous PhD. Was there a minimum or maximum number? I tried to apply some logic to come up with...
How long will your viva be? What will your examiners think about your thesis? What questions will they ask? What award will you get? How will you feel afterwards? How long will it take to complete corrections? You might have...
How big a deal is your viva? There are tens of thousands of them every year in the UK. Maybe over a thousand in your university. Even at a department level there could be dozens. And your examiners may do...