
{"id":3018,"date":"2019-06-26T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T11:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/i-felt-jet-lagged-after-my-phd-viva\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T13:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:01:28","slug":"i-felt-jet-lagged-after-my-phd-viva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/i-felt-jet-lagged-after-my-phd-viva","title":{"rendered":"I felt jet lagged after my PhD viva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">So last week on Thursday, I had my PhD viva, and I passed! Yay, alhamdulillah!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">How do I feel? My emotions were jumbled up then because it just felt very surreal. Now, it is still surreal, but I\u2019m in what I call a post-viva limbo (more about this in the next few paragraphs).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Looking back, I enjoyed my viva immensely, even though I was grilled to the core by the lovely Melissa Glackin, whose grilling made me feel like she\u2019s the mild version of\u00a0<a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.educ.cam.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/taber\/\">Keith Taber<\/a>\u00a0(my supervisor assured me that she\u2019s him in a female form, but then I realised that my supervisor,\u00a0<a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.educ.cam.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/winterbottom\/\">Mark Winterbottom<\/a>,\u00a0<i>is<\/i>\u00a0a mild version of Keith, so there you go).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I am a typical Southeast Asian who can\u2019t exactly receive praise easily, and I recognise that I do still have that\u00a0<a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/reflectivejourneys.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/05\/thoughts-on-the-impostor-syndrome\/\">impostor syndrome<\/a>. So I had a bit of a weirded out feeling when my examiners told me that they enjoyed reading my work, but when it sank in, internally, I felt very, very chuffed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I did not realise that time flew during the one and a half hours. What I remembered the most about the viva was that I glanced at Steve (my internal examiner,\u00a0<a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.educ.cam.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/watson\/\">Steve Watson<\/a>) whenever I thought that I could not handle Melissa\u2019s grilling. I suppose it was akin to my friend who kept glancing at her supervisor when she was being grilled at her own PhD viva (this friend did her viva at another UK university where her supervisor was allowed to sit in but needed to stay silent during the entire process).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">At times during the viva, I felt that I was in a conversation with two teachers educators, which I was essentially doing; after all, Steve teaches PGCE Secondary Maths in Cambridge while Melissa teaches PGCE Secondary Biology in Kings. I think this happened in the second half-hour, or maybe earlier.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">It was during those times when I felt like I was in my element. I spent almost three years of my time in Cambridge as a voluntary teaching assistant for Mark in PGCE Biology. This led to conversations with teacher educators (Mark,\u00a0<a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.educ.cam.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/wilson\/\">Elaine<\/a>, Jo Haywood, and\u00a0<a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.educ.cam.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/de_winter\/\">James de Winter<\/a>) all the time when the PGCEs were in session. I even used James\u2019s phrase (a conscious competent) to describe teachers who were consciously making use of their expert intuitive judgements to differentiate themselves from teachers who were unconsciously making use of their expert intuitive judgements (an unconscious competent), and to differentiate these conscious competents from unconscious non-competents, i.e. those who were making use of their na\u00efve intuitive judgements.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Upon reflection, I should have mentioned my research blog (it was in my thesis appendix), and I should have also spoken about the research poem I wrote to describe how I selected participants (and I should have also inserted the poem in the appendix of my thesis), when Steve and Melissa asked if I\u2019d like to say something after that one and a half hours.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I think the post-viva time is like jetlag. You know, when you\u2019ve changed time zones so quickly that you feel like you are disoriented? I think that\u2019s it. Also, because I could not sleep after my viva, it literally did feel like jetlag. I was on the phone with family and close friends back home, and I was texting and emailing everyone that mattered, both back home and here.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Not only that, a chat with my uncle back home reminded me of my late maternal grandmother. Being in a family that values education means having a lot of cousins who are undergraduate and Master\u2019s degree holders, but I am her first grandchild to pass a PhD viva. She would have been so happy for me had she been alive. So that brought in a few tears.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">So, what\u2019s next? I obviously didn\u2019t take Mark\u2019s advice (which was to sleep for a week); instead, I\u2019ve been keeping myself busy during this post-viva limbo by<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">a) Meeting friends \u2013 Friday, day after viva.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">b) Sleeping in on the weekend (I think this constitutes Mark\u2019s advice to sleep for a week) \u2013 Saturday and Sunday = weekend after viva.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">c) Chatted with family more than I usually do (thanks to an 8-hour time difference, it is quite hard to sort it out) \u2013 weekend after viva and Monday morning.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">d) Sorting my visa out (passport\u2019s with the Tier 4 visa people as we speak) and visited my friend and her family in Bar Hill \u2013 Monday afternoon and evening.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">e) Slept in on a weekday (I haven\u2019t slept in on a weekday in ages!), went to the library for Threeses, and went for a singing lesson \u2013 Tuesday afternoon and evening.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">f) Went to see my tutor for a social chat (and let her know what I\u2019ve been doing) and walked about town to get more books and other stuff. Tonight, it\u2019s choir, so will be singing Bohemian Rhapsody (cool!) \u2013 this is today on Wednesday.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">g) Read blog entries that\u00a0<a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/people.ds.cam.ac.uk\/kst24\/KeithSTaber\/Science-Education-Research\/Science-Education-Research.html\">Keith<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/stevenwatson.co.uk\/\">Steve<\/a>\u00a0wrote \u2013 Just started reading Keith\u2019s blog again; his entries are always thought-provoking and hilarious at the same time. So, I\u2019ve been entertaining my friends with snippets from Keith\u2019s blog.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">h) Going down to London tomorrow afternoon to see Jane, eat some cake from Ms. Cupcake and Sponge &amp; Cream, and visit Keith (a friend), see Westminster Abbey, and observe some classes at Westminster School the next day \u2013 Thursday and Friday.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I still haven\u2019t had any weekend plans sorted, so if anyone is in Cambridge and would like to meet up, do text me on any of the social media outlets (like Facebook Messenger) and WhatsApp.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Then, on Monday next week, it\u2019s back on the grind for me. I am going to prepare two papers for publication while waiting for the official report to be sent through. For one of the papers, some re-analysis of the findings for at least two of the cases needs to be done, and I am going to finish the corrections within the time limit.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Career-wise, what\u2019s next? This is a good question that I don\u2019t know the answer to. I am very much in love with learning, and as much as I\u2019d like to do an MPhil in Psychology, it would be better to get a job first and then take a bit of a break from that job (whatever that will be) to do the MPhil.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I am going to apply for research positions, definitely. Where that will be is a good question, as I have not yet decided where I want to go. I\u2019m cheekily hoping that my supervisor will have research funding and he can pay me to do the job, but alas, I have to make my own way around the world.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Going back home to Brunei is one option. There are times when I wish that I am not a long-distance auntie for my nieces and nephews (my cousins\u2019 children), and there are times (especially when my mum had to be hospitalised when I was about to have my viva) when I wished that my first home was nearer to Cambridge. So, I will apply for a teaching position back home, definitely.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Maybe I should just apply for any research projects that I am interested in anywhere around the world and see what happens.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Hamizah Haji-Haidi (<\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmyHeidi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>@AmyHeidi<\/i><\/a><i>) is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. This story was published on January 23, 2019, on Hamizah\u2019s blog, <\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/reflectivejourneys.wordpress.com\"><i>Reflective journeys of a doctoral student<\/i><\/a><i> (available <\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/reflectivejourneys.wordpress.com\/2019\/01\/23\/reflection-on-the-phd-viva\/\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>), and has been republished here with her permission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last week on Thursday, I had my PhD viva, and I passed! Yay, alhamdulillah! How do I feel? My emotions were jumbled up then because it just felt very surreal. Now, it is still surreal, but I\u2019m in what I call a post-viva limbo (more about this in the next few paragraphs). 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