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Three Minute Thesis Competition 2023

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Three Minute Thesis Competition 2023

Congratulations to our winners!

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The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic research communication competition developed by

 


Thank you to all who attended our live final on Thursday 31 August. It was a fantastic evening! 

Huge congratulations to our winners

  • Major prize: Senada Meskin (Faculty of Arts and Design) 
  • Runner-up: Sara Chica Latorre (Faculty of Health) 
  • People’s Choice Award: Sara Chica Latorre 

Special thanks to all our finalists, judges, MC, and 91Ïã½¶app Media Team for making this such a memorable event. 

This year’s all-female finale saw seven Higher Degree by Research (HDR) candidates, representing four of the University’s five faculties, pitch their thesis in three minutes or less for prizes and the opportunity to represent the University at the Asia-Pacific Semi-Final at the University of Queensland in September.          

 


2023 Winners

Senada Meskin, Major Prize Winner

Senada Meskin

Faculty of Arts and Design

Australian Muslim Women and Paid Work!

Senada is an international research student, a mother of three, a university employee, and a visibly Muslim woman. Each of those identities was, at some point, a part of the academic inquiry. If, however, we intersect two or more of those identities, we would encounter a whole new world. Senada’s thesis investigates the severely under-researched phenomenon of how it feels to be a Muslim woman in Australia as well as an employee in a competitive industry.

Sara Chica-Latorre, Runner-up and People's Choice Winner

Sara Chica-Latorre

Faculty of Health

Tackling a bloody problem for women in sport

Sara feels fortunate to combine her biggest passions – research, exercise, and nutrition – as she investigates the management of menstrual symptoms in sportswomen through diet, aspiring to make a positive difference for women in sports research. Sara graduated from ANU in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science (Hons). She spent two years working in research, and four year working in the health, fitness, and vocational education sectors. In 2021 Sara completed a Master’s in Nutrition and Dietetics and commenced her PhD at the University of Canberra.

2023 Finalists

Check out our  finalists for 2023.

Ayrin Assadimoghadam

Ayrin Assadimoghadam

Faculty of Arts and Design

How can a building's façade learn from nature?

Ayrin’s research intersects across architecture, sustainability, and efficiency. Her 3MT Pitch is about adaptive facade strategy and its potential for optimising building façade performance for energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Ayrin’s research highlights current gaps in applying adaptive façades through building codes, principles, and guidelines for high-rise residential buildings. In these cases, optimised design frameworks and adaptive façade strategies could have significant environmental advantages, especially in countries with high solar coverage like Australia.

Kithmini Aviruppola, Faculty of Education

Kithmini Aviruppola

Kithmini Aviruppola

Faculty of Education

Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Unveiling the Path to Equitable University Education

Kithmini’s research promotes equity in education to ensure that all students have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Kithmini’s research is searching for effective measures to close the opportunity gap between the privileged and the underprivileged students, ensuring that all students are given the chance to succeed.

Keira Bai

Keira Bai

Faculty of Science and Technology

From Hidden Tears to Genuine Smiles

Micro-expressions are almost undetectable to the human naked eye, but they can be the key to understanding concealed human emotions. Keira’s research leverages deep learning neural networks in the detection and recognition of micro-expressions to decipher human emotional states. Keira believes that studying the nuances of micro-expressions, no matter how subtle, is the key for harnessing the power of AI to improve human outcomes, particularly early and accurate diagnosis for clinical depression.

Tayne Ryall

Tayne Ryall

Faculty of Health

Peer pressure in health training – we need more of it!

Tayne has worked as an acute care physiotherapist since 2005 and completed her Master of Health Professional Education in 2014. Tayne worked as the clinical educator in the Acute Physiotherapy Department at Canberra Hospital from 2015-2020. Tayne’s research investigates simulation as a training and assessment tool. Moreover, it determines if simulation can improve students’ work-readiness and predict their clinical performance on work-integrated learning placements.

Cherry Wang

Cherry Wang

Faculty of Science and Technology

A Journey Towards Empathetic AI: Investigating a Computational Model for Text-based Empathetic Response Generation

By bridging the gap between AI and human emotions, Cherry’s research holds the potential to enhance human-computer interactions in a more empathetic manner. Her research revolves around designing a dialogue agent that combines large language models with psychological theories. Her goal is to create dialogue agent that can understand and respond to emotions in a supportive and contextually appropriate manner, akin to interacting with a compassionate friend.

Judges

Hala Batainah

Hala Batainah

Principal Coach and Founder, Humanosity; Chair, Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN)

Hala Batainah is a business leader with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership. Hala has experience in the information, communications, and technology industry and has served in senior executive roles for IBM and Microsoft. She is the Chair of CBRIN, an organisation focused on supporting innovation and entrepreneurship. Through her coaching work at Huminosity, Hala is dedicated to supporting executive leaders and their teams to improving their communication for stand-out results.

Peter Copeman

Peter Copeman

Adjunct Professional Associate, Faculty of Education, University of Canberra

Before retiring in 2020 from full-time employment at UC, Peter was a multi-award-winning Senior Teaching Fellow in the Learning and Teaching unit, where he convened the Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education course, mentored colleagues to achieve HEA Fellowships, co-led projects such as Indigenisation of the Curriculum program, represented 91Ïã½¶app on multiple cross-institutional projects including the award-winning Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC, supervised doctoral students and taught skills for research communication including 3MT. In his adjunct role, he has continued postgraduate supervision, HEA Fellowship mentoring, curriculum Indigenisation, and research communication training.

Arvind Reddy

Arvind Reddy

Manager, Research Grants, Research & Enterprise Portfolio, University of Canberra

Arvind Reddy is an experienced research management professional. He has led the research grants team at UC for over seven years. Arvind regularly assists academics to review and assess their grant applications, providing strategic advice for the best chance of success. Arvind has over 15 years’ experience in the engineering industry, working with governments, industry and not-for-profits in renewable energy and climate change sectors.

Thank you

The HDR Development team would like to thank a few dedicated and talented people, without whom the 2023 91Ïã½¶app Three Minute Thesis Final would not be possible.

To our MC  and judges , , and  for so generously donating their time, expertise, and insights for this event.

To  for providing pitch training in the lead up to the faculty heats and coaching with the finalists. Thank you for your energy and enthusiasm to help our finalists elevate their pitches to new heights.

To our faculties for organising the Faculty Heats during Research Festival which generated excitement for the competition and encouraged students at all stages to participate.

To the 91Ïã½¶app Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise, , for providing financial and event support.

Profound thanks to various teams across the university for their collaborative support:

  • 91Ïã½¶app Web Team for putting the 2023 webpage together
  • 91Ïã½¶app Design Team for designing all our 2023 91Ïã½¶app3MT print and digital collateral 
  • 91Ïã½¶app Media Team for producing the finalists’ pitch videos and profile photos, event photography and videography, and social media promotion

Lastly, and most importantly, thank you to all the competitors in the heats and our finalists for taking part in this event and helping to make it a success – without you, there is no 3MT event!

Contact the Graduate Research office about 2023 3MT

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