As a PhD Examiner … My Top 25 Tips for PhD students (and a few more)

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
18 min readJul 30, 2018

I have done many MSc/PhD examinations, and I enjoy them so much. With a PhD Viva I especially like seeing the face of the candidate when I take the thesis out of my bag, and you can’t see the thesis for Post-it notes. This should hopefully show that I’ve read single word in it, and, hopefully, understood most of it.

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.