Three Minute Thesis Competition - 2011

The School of Pharmacy hosted the annual 3-Minute-Thesis (3MT) competition heat on August 5, with seven candidates taking part.

Ms Amy Tan was named the winner of the school level heat, receiving $100 prize money and going on to represent Pharmacy at Faculty Level.

The 3MT competition was launched by UQ in 2008, and aims to assist research higher degree candidates

• develop academic, presentation, and research communication skills and
• increase their capacity to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience.

Research higher degree (PhD and MPhil) students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis topic and its significance. 3MT is not an exercise in trivialising or ‘dumbing-down’ research but forces students to consolidate their ideas and crystalise their research discoveries.

In 2009 and 2010 the 3MT concept was promoted to other Australian and New Zealand universities. Enthusiasm for the 3MT concept and its adoption in numerous universities led to the development of an international competition, with the Inaugural Australia & New Zealand 3MT competition held at UQ in 2010.

The popularity of the competition has increased further in 2011, with the UQ Final being held on Tuesday, September 13.

The School of Pharmacy congratulates the following RHD candidates who took part in this year's heats:

• Ms Amy Tan (Winner)
• Ms Esther Lau (1st Runner Up and People's Choice Award)
• Ms Gina Gujral (2nd Runner Up)
• Ms Siti Yusrina Jamaludin
• Mr Arjun Muralidharan
• Mr Nemat Khan
• Mr Vaskar Das

To discover more about UQ's 3MT competition, visit the UQ Graduate School website.

Pictured: The seven pharmacy participants pictured at PACE after the School of Pharmacy heats

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