Thursday 21st March sees the first ever Three Minute Thesis competition taking place in Glasgow.  The competition challenges research students from across campus to communicate their research in a way that is engaging and accessible to a non-specialist audience, in just three minutes.

With heats taking place in each of the four Colleges, over 50 Postgraduate Research students have taken up this challenge.  Following tightly fought contests, 12 finalists have been selected to go forward to the Grand Finale, where they will perform their three minutes to a wide-ranging audience, including invited guests and alumni, showcasing the wide diversity of ground-breaking research taking place atGlasgow.

The 3MT® competition was initially developed at the University of Queensland in 2008 and has since spread to other universities, with this being the first competition to run inScotland.  Finalists from the Glasgow competition will be invited to represent the University at national and international 3MT competitions, including a virtual competition with partner institutions through the Universitas21 competition.

Staff, students and members of the public are welcome to attend the Grand Finale and, as well as the judges’ decision (where £1500 of travel and conference funding is on offer), there will be a ‘People’s Choice’ winner and all winners and runners up from the heats will receive certificates.

 

For more information about the final and a selection of videos of the finalists, go to http://www.gla.ac.uk/students/researcherdevelopment/threeminutethesiscompetition/

 

Our 12 finalists are:

Anne Katrine Johansen, The gender puzzle in disease

Katrin Nather, Developing new drugs to treat high blood pressure

Kirsten Munro, Stabilising SOCS3 to limit vascular inflammation and neointimal hyperplasia

Akshaya Kumar, Provincialising Bollywood, what does cinema mean to the poor?

Di Xu, Struggling journalists in mainlandChina

Sophie Kromholz, Vanishing artworks

Lynne Braidwood, Onclytic HSV1716- a virus that selectively kills cancer cells while leaving normal cells unaffected

Jamie Gallagher, Nanoscale thermoelectronics

Richard Middlemiss, How attractive are you? Making an ultra sensitive gravity sensor

Tarsisio Nyatsanza, Developing a transformative approach to AIDS education

Alexia Kolestsou, Communicating sustainable behaviours

Muhammad Ashraf, Education policy of Pakistan: a conflicting debate

 

Times and venue for the final

21st March 2013, 2-4pm, followed by a reception in the Gilchrist PG Club

Room 201, Ground floor of the John McIntyre Building

 

First published: 14 March 2013

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