Daily viva help for PhDs
Around 2013 I invented a series of prompts to help a candidate reflect on their thesis. Through not-so-subtle phrasing I got these keywords to spell out VIVA. The tool is used to explore the contents of a thesis chapter. All...
Let’s say you’re a few weeks away from your viva. You’ve read your thesis and it feels familiar. You’re busy with life outside of your thesis. You want to be prepared for your viva, you feel the need to do...
I’ve shared my VIVA tool a few times: an acronym for exploring your thesis chapter by chapter as a valuable viva preparation. My quick directions for someone to try this would be to divide a sheet into four sections, and...
Earlier this year I shared my directed thinking tool, VIVA, which is really useful for analysing chapters of your thesis in preparation for the viva. My general suggestion for VIVA is to take a sheet of paper and divide it...
I’ve shared a few acronyms in posts over the last year but today’s tool is different because I invented it! VIVA is very useful to help with exploring your thesis before the viva; it’s a directed thinking tool in the...