The Next Challenges
What’s next?
Whether your plans are academia or elsewhere it might be a difficult topic to talk about. Your plans might be in flux. Your plans might be sensitive and make you feel emotional in some way.
You don’t need to have a 5-year plan figured out for meeting your examiners but it might help to know how you’ll explain a little of your future plans at the viva.
You won’t be judged on them: the viva is centred on your research, your thesis and your capability. But it’s a natural topic of discussion for something like the viva.
Take a little time as part of your viva prep to think about the next challenges you’re facing – because that’s what they are. They might be smaller scale than a PhD but they’re no less daunting. If you’ve done a PhD then you are committed to doing good things well.
So what’s next? And how might you explain that to your examiners?
PS: what’s next for me is the new issue of Viva Survivors Select, which I’m releasing in two weeks!