Thursday, November 7, 2013

Three Minute Thesis Competition

This year the University of Western Sydney was host to the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) finals. The University was fortunate to have Mr. Ruben Meerman from ABC’s Catalyst as Master of Ceremonies for the event as Mr Meerman has been promoting science for more than 15 years.
The day saw some fantastic presentations by PhD students from all over Australia and New Zealand. Forty four (44) Semi finalists competed in the morning with eight (8) progressing through to the finals:

3MT Finalists:
·         Xiao (Demi) Gao from the University of South Australia. ‘Building a better bionic ear’
·         Sharon Savage from the University of New South Wales. ‘Giving words new life in dementia’
·         Kelsey Kennedy from the University of Western Australia. ‘Feeling for cancer: an imaging tool to make breast cancer surgery more effective’
·         Lily Chang from the University of Auckland. ‘An "eye" on Alzheimer's disease’ 
·         Thomas Finn from Massey University. ‘Oxygen: A double-edged sword for life forms’
·         Shu Hui Yau from Macquarie University. ‘Beeps, Burps and Brains: Auditory Processing in Autism’
·         Ksenia Gnevsheva from the University of Canterbury. ‘Non-Native English accents: How malleable are they?’ 
·         Gemma Sharp from Flinders University. ‘Paying for Lip Service’  


Our congratulations go to this year’s runner up Lily Chang from the University of Auckland and this year’s winner of the three minute thesis competition, Kelsey Kennedy from the University of Western Australia.  Kelsey managed to not only win the competition, but also take home the people’s choice award.
We also commend all the students who entered the completion and managed to condense and simplify their theses into an interesting three minute talk to be understood by a lay person, this is an impressive feat. We wish them luck in their future research.

If you have any questions concerning Intellectual Property or Commercialisation of your research please refer to the UWS Innovation website http://www.uws.edu.au/innovate or contact us on ip@uws.edu.au

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