#1 Kindle Bestseller in "Education: College & University" - Amazon.co.uk - January 2013, May 2013, June 2013
#1 Kindle Bestseller in "Education: Study Skills" - Amazon.co.uk - May 2013, June 2013
"This witty guide is filled to bursting point with nugget after golden nugget of important viva survival material." - Ben Libberton, reviewing for The Thesis Whisperer (http://thesiswhisperer.com/2013/05/29/fail-your-viva-book-review/)
"How could I fail my viva?" In this helpful short guide, Dr Nathan Ryder shows twelve steps that can lead to failing the PhD - but more importantly, each chapter also contains clear advice for people who want to pass their viva.
Nathan loves interesting challenges - which is why he works as a freelance skills trainer in Higher Education with postgraduate research students and research staff. Since 2010 the number one course that he has been asked to deliver is a viva preparation workshop for final year PhD students. "Fail Your Viva" contains some of the workshop's key tips, as well as other great ideas for preparing for the viva voce.
Past participants on this workshop at the University of Liverpool have said:
"Thank you very much, this is the most useful course that I've taken since I started my PhD."
"Helped me feel a lot more organised and prepared for my viva."
"A useful course that brought up ideas and questions which I hadn't thought about."
In 2012 he started the Viva Survivors podcast, which features interviews with PhD graduates talking about their research, viva experience and what they have done since finishing the PhD. He can be found on Twitter as @DrRyder.
#1 Kindle Bestseller in "Education: Study Skills" - Amazon.co.uk - May 2013, June 2013
"This witty guide is filled to bursting point with nugget after golden nugget of important viva survival material." - Ben Libberton, reviewing for The Thesis Whisperer (http://thesiswhisperer.com/2013/05/29/fail-your-viva-book-review/)
"How could I fail my viva?" In this helpful short guide, Dr Nathan Ryder shows twelve steps that can lead to failing the PhD - but more importantly, each chapter also contains clear advice for people who want to pass their viva.
Nathan loves interesting challenges - which is why he works as a freelance skills trainer in Higher Education with postgraduate research students and research staff. Since 2010 the number one course that he has been asked to deliver is a viva preparation workshop for final year PhD students. "Fail Your Viva" contains some of the workshop's key tips, as well as other great ideas for preparing for the viva voce.
Past participants on this workshop at the University of Liverpool have said:
"Thank you very much, this is the most useful course that I've taken since I started my PhD."
"Helped me feel a lot more organised and prepared for my viva."
"A useful course that brought up ideas and questions which I hadn't thought about."
In 2012 he started the Viva Survivors podcast, which features interviews with PhD graduates talking about their research, viva experience and what they have done since finishing the PhD. He can be found on Twitter as @DrRyder.
