Best of Viva Survivors 2025: Surviving
It’s the last day of 2025 and my last day to share some of my favourite posts of 2025.
The blog is called Viva Survivors, so we have to have posts about surviving!
- Keep Going In Difficult Circumstances: digging into what it means to survive.
- Important Past Dates: looking back on the PhD journey.
- In Case Of Emergency: how to respond to ALL questions at your viva!
- Extras/Essentials: thinking about what different people need for viva success.
- Lots Of Reasons: looking at the big picture of passing the viva.
I also have to shout out These Interesting Times, a post from March that looked back at the last five years. How have you made it this far? What helped you manage to keep going in difficult circumstances throughout your PhD journey and particularly over the last five years?
Finally for 2025, if you’re looking for some more thoughts on surviving then take a look at The Survival Issue, the most recent curated collection of Viva Survivors Select!