Six Thoughts On Six Years
Six years of the Viva Survivors daily blog. Wow. Time flies when you’re planning, writing and publishing an original and helpful blog post every day! What stands out to me from the last six years? As time goes by I...
Daily viva help for PhDs
Six years of the Viva Survivors daily blog. Wow. Time flies when you’re planning, writing and publishing an original and helpful blog post every day! What stands out to me from the last six years? As time goes by I...
At the end of December I shared five days of posts recapping my favourite writing from 2022. In case you missed that or you’re looking for some helpful highlights, here’s the best of those five days, with links to each...
It’s a time of year where people typically take some time off. I’m already doing that – I wrote this post weeks ago so that I could enjoy more family time! Viva Survivors will continue to update every day until the...
(I couldn’t think of a snappy name!) Except for the odd Christmas Day off here and there, I’ve now written and published 2000 days of posts on: viva expectations; viva prep; examiners; the PhD journey; and viva confidence. And a...
That’s how long I’ve been writing this blog. Longer than I spent on my PhD! I started with the following short post in 2017: I’ve got a few questions for you: Did you do the work? Did you show up...
A year ago, just before the first UK lockdown, I wrote “Interesting Times” – an extra post for March 16th, recognising that difficult change was coming hard and fast. A year later, it feels like that change has never stopped....
I’ve had a lot of fun delivering Getting Creative and 7 Reasons You’ll Pass Your Viva in the last month, and been floored by the support people have given them and how valuable they’ve said they were. So I decided...
I started the year helping to deliver a Leadership In Action workshop in Manchester. As part of the course, each of the facilitators had to deliver an “insight” – a thirty minute, one-off presentation about something connected with leadership. I...
When I did my PhD there was very little help available for viva candidates. Now there is help everywhere. There are scores of advice articles for the viva and probably hundreds of blog posts about personal experiences – you can...
I’ve been asked a few times recently why I do a daily blog. The inspiration to do it came from Seth Godin, a person I greatly respect, who has published a daily blog for many years. I saw someone trying...