Ramblings of a Drug Discovery PhD student who should really be in the lab or writing her thesis.
2020 certainly hasn’t panned out for many of us as we’d have hoped. Ideally, I would have submitted my PhD thesis around Easter and then start applying to jobs while preparing for the viva, hopefully with something lined up by graduation, having had the perfect month or so of downtime after an intense few years …
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One of the most useful ways I prepared for my viva was by asking people who worked on similar PhD projects about their vivas and what they were asked. Below is a detailed but non-exhaustive list of questions and concepts I vaguely remember talking about during my viva. I hope it is useful as a …
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The Chemistry of a PhD 