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How I Survived My Viva: What Helped, What Didn’t, and What I Learned

5 min readHow I Survived My Viva: What Helped, What Didn’t, and What I Learned On 13 November 2025, thousands of miles away from my university, I sat my PhD viva online. Two and a half hours later, I heard the words every doctoral researcher hopes for: “You survived.” It was intense, thoughtful, and surprisingly human. Looking […]

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Why sustainability matters

3 min readInsights on why inclusivity and sustainability matter. Reflections after presenting at the 2024 Student Sustainability Research Conferences in Leeds and London. Why sustainability matters to me Climate change does not affect all communities equally. Historically marginalised and vulnerable groups often bear the brunt of climate impacts like floods due to factors like geographic location, socioeconomic

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