Best of Viva Survivors 2025: Confidence
For day three of my look back at 2025 I return to confidence. I really love exploring how to encourage confidence for the viva. Digging into this topic has had a huge impact on my life and I love sharing ideas with PhD candidates.
- The Confidence Formula: my attempt to bring maths to finding confidence!
- Fair Adjustments: every viva is expected to be difficult but fair.
- Uniform, Armour, Costume: what will you wear to your viva?
- Maybe & Definitely: exploring what you focus on ahead of the viva.
- Whatever Works: finding confidence by doing whatever helps you.
How confident are you feeling for your viva? What steps are you taking to help yourself?
One helpful step might be to take a look at The Confidence Issue, the seventh issue of curated help from my Viva Survivors Select series of zines!