3 Minute Thesis final
School of Information Management PhD student, Fahimi Md Ali, was one of six award winners at the final of the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition held on 26 September 2014.
School of Information Management PhD student, Fahimi Md Ali, was one of six award winners at the final of the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition held on 26 September 2014.
Fahimi won the $250 International Award, having made the finals after winning the Commerce & Law faculty round of the competition earlier in September.
The 3MT is an exercise in developing academic and research communication skills. Masters by Thesis and Doctoral students have three minutes to give an engaging and dynamic talk on their thesis topic and its significance in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience.
Organised by the Postgraduate Student Association, the event challenged master’s and PhD candidates to boil down years of work into a three-minute presentation, which would be understood by a lay audience.
There were 96 entrants in the event this year, a record high for Victoria since the competition began in 2010. The contestants, from across faculties, presented talks on everything from collaborative teaching styles to trying to pin down the causes of autism.
Michele Fontana, from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS), took top honours and first prize money of $3,000. Second prize of $1,000 was awarded to another FHSS student Melanie Revis, who also won the People’s Choice trophy.
Third place was shared, with a cash prize of $250 each, between science PhD students Wilfred Kittler and Ryan Kyle. Chemical and Physical Sciences student Ruth Corkill won the Honours Award presented during the faculty rounds.