Looking for a collection of resources that offer help for your viva prep?

1. Keep Going - A Viva Survivors Anthology is a collection of the best of five years of daily writing published at Viva Survivors. Over 150 posts about viva expectations, viva prep, building confidence, responding to questions and a lot more. You can find Keep Going separately here.
2. 101 Steps To A Great Viva is a 24-page guide to getting ready for the viva. 101 bite-sized actions that any candidate can take to help them feel more ready for meeting their examiners. You can find the guide available separately here.
3. How You Got Here is a 2-page writing game to help build confidence ahead of the viva by reflecting on the PhD journey and is only available as part of the Viva Help Bundle.

Keep Going is provided as an .epub ebook file and 101 Steps To A Great Viva and How You Got Here are A5-page size pdf files. If you have questions about any of these or the bundle then please let me know.

101 Steps To A Great Viva is a 24-page A5 zine to help postgraduate researchers as they prepare for their PhD viva. I share 101 actions that any PhD candidate can take to help them get ready for and have a great viva.

Created during a successful Kickstarter campaign in May 2023, 101 Steps To A Great Viva is my attempt to get someone to think proactively about their viva: what can you do to put yourself in a good position? What will you do?

I cover the viva from expectations to preparation, confidence-building to engaging with examiners. I'm extremely proud of the result and very grateful for the support I had to make it a reality.