[Postgrad] FW: Three Minute Thesis Competition at Strathclyde

[Audrey McKinnon]

Dear All

This may be of interest to a lot of you.

Kind regards
Audrey

From: Researcher Development
Sent: 09 December 2015 14:04
Subject: Three Minute Thesis Competition at Strathclyde

Dear colleague,

The RDP team are delighted to announce that they are introducing the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition at Strathclyde<http://www.strath.ac.uk/rdp/threeminutethesiscompetition/>.

You may be familiar with the 3MT® competition, which requires PhD students to describe their research in 3 minutes using only one PowerPoint slide to a non-specialist audience. It was first developed by the University of Queensland (UQ) in 2008 and since then around 200 universities have offered a 3MT® competition in over 18 countries worldwide. This public engagement activity is a fantastic opportunity for our PGRs to showcase their research whilst developing important presentation and public engagement skills. More information on the competition including example presentations can be found on the UQ 3MT webpage<http://threeminutethesis.org/index.html>.

In this pilot year, university heats will be held before a final during Engage with Strathclyde week in May 2016. In order to best prepare PGRs for entry into this competition the RDP team are running a one day training session (choice of two dates in January) which can be booked online<https://bookings.strath.ac.uk/courseDetails.asp?course=TMTT>.

Furthermore, a UK wide 3MT® competition<https://www.vitae.ac.uk/events/three-minute-thesis-competition> is now held annually at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference where students have won prizes such as a £3,000 grant to spend on a public engagement activity and the opportunity to present in the famous Faraday Lecture Theatre. It is hoped that in 2016 Strathclyde will be able to put forward a University winner for the UK semi-final to showcase the research being performed at Strathclyde.

To ensure this competition is successfully launched, we would be very grateful if you could promote both the event and the training through your PhD channels by directing students to Strathclyde's 3MT® website<http://www.strath.ac.uk/rdp/threeminutethesiscompetition/>.

Please don't hesitate to contact me should you have any questions, and we look forward to seeing you at the finale event, if not before.

Best wishes,
Gabrielle



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