Our 3MT® 2024 competition was incredible! This year we had 35 competitors, taking part across 4 heats. Each the winner or runner-up of their respective heats went through the final competition, held back on the 28th March 2024.

But…

What is 3MT®?

What are the prizes?

Who participate and who were our winners?

What our winners and judges reflect about the competition journey?

We have put together this PGR blog to navigate you through the competition, our participants, the finalists and Of course! - the winners; what they think about their participation, and what they are taking moving forward. We have also asked some of the judges about their experience and what 3MT® was for them. They have done an outstanding job helping us to select the best presentations.

We hope you enjoyed this summary of the event, just as much as we LOVED it !!

What is 3MT® 2024?

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is our annual academic competition for anyone who is active in PhD, MPhil, MRes, or any other research programme. This competition challenges the participants about presenting their WHOLE RESEARCH TOPIC IN 3 MINUTES. They prepare it using one-single PowerPoint slide and the audience is conform by non-specialists. This is a great opportunity to practice and enhance public engagement skills but also to gain confidence about the importance of the participant’s research topic, preparing them for more specific audiences within their fields.

In simple words, it is a magnificent and really interesting event made to and for the #UofG PGR community.

At the end of the event, the top presenter (3MT® winner), and the Runner-up are decided by our wonderful judges. Top winner win a £1000 travel grant, and our runner-up win a £500 research grant.  Additionally, the audience has the opportunity to select a winner, as our People’s Choice winner, who will win a £100 voucher.

Our presenters

On this year 3MT®, 35 participants competed. The presenters were all #UofG PGR Researchers, covering a huge range of different research disciplines across all 4 colleges – The College of Arts and Humanities, College of Social Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, and College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences. Here’s who got involved:

• Ahmed Bahaaeldin Nabih Elmarghany

• Angelina Kirilova Kancheva

• Anith Ravindran

• A S M Rubayet Ul Alam

• Christiana Myers

• Daniel Kelly

• Daniel Mitchell

• Edgar Joao Manrique Valverde

• Elise Sandbach

• Emma Elizabeth Porter Stone

• Erin Bartley

• Grace Mclean Barrett

• Ioannis Tsigkos

• Jan-Hendrik Ewers

• Jenny MacLeod

• Judith Hoppermann

• Katherine Prentice

• Kirsten Kernaghan

• Lavinia Agra Coletto

• Lydia Jilantikiri

• Michelah Brown

• Mirava Coree Yuson

• Nada Mohsin Taher Aboghunaim

• Narthana Ilenkovan

• Navneet Jhariya

• Novika Grasiaswaty Kamal

• Orestis Angelidis

• Pinar Aksu

• Rachel Millar

• Rong He

• Senthilkumar Subramanian

• Xingyu Tao

• Yuwei Cai

• Zhiyi Yu

• Zita Borbala Fulop

Our finalists

For the final event, we have 13 amazing and through-provoking finalists. Their names are in the list below:

1. Mirava Coree Yuson (MVLS) - "Does this necklace make me look rabid?” (3MT® Top winner).

2. Narthana Ilenkovan (MVLS) - Let’s get serious about Low Grade Serous.

3. Angelina Kirilova Kancheva (MVLS) - Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Beyond the Brain – More Than Meets the Eye (People’s Choice winner).

4. Elise Sandbach (CoAH) - Fangirls as creators: The power and influence of fangirls in the superhero comic book community.

5. Erin Bartley (CoSS) - Once Upon a Time: how storytelling in career guidance can improve sense of self and decision making in developing adolescents.

6. Novika Grasiaswaty Kamal (CoSS) - Automation, Autonomy and Activism among Platform Worker.

7. Lavinia Agra Coletto (MVLS) - Understanding and Preventing Transition from Psoriasis to Psoriatic Arthritis.

8. Senthilkumar Subramanian (CoSE) - The space dust is unromantic.

9. Orestis Angelidis (CoSE) - District Heating and Cooling networks: the cool side of heat (Runner-up winner).

10. Zita Borbala Fulop (CoSE) - Redefining Cancer Treatment Through Multiscale Modelling.

11. Kirsten Kernaghan (MVLS) - COMPASS: Community Pharmacies and Scotland’s Sexual Health.

12. Jenny MacLeod (CoAH) - ‘An art in which women are destined to excel’: Scottish Women Etchers During the Etching Revival, 1880-1930'.

13. Rong He (CoAH) - Beyond Borders: A Ukrainian Refugee Family's Showcase on Social Media.

The winners

Mireva Coree Yuson (MVLS), Orestis Angelidis (CoSE), and Angelina Kirilova Kancheva (MVLS) were our 3MT® 2024 winners! Mireva was our 3MT® Top winner, Orestis won Runner-up, and Angelina was selected as our People’s Choice winner.

Their presentations were absolutely fantastic and the way they present their research topic was truly interesting and complete in just 3 minutes!! Huge congratulations to our winners again. We wish them the best of luck in the next stage of their journey :)

Reflections from the winners

We asked the winners of this year's competition about their experiences, how they felt about their participation, and what they can share with other fellow PGR, to invite them to participate in future 3MT® competitions. Here are they reflections:

Reflections from some of our judges

We have also asked some of our 3MT® amazing judges about their experience participating as part of the committee that selected the best presentations on each heat, and ultimately, the three winners of the competition. Here are their reflections:

Looking forward

This year competition was so refreshing and it was so wonderful to see so many presentations, from a wide range of topics across the University of Glasgow. All the competitors were excellent and we thank them so much for their participation and time. We would also thank our judges for their participation, time, and professionalism, thank you for contributing to the development of students!

We look forward for the next 3MT® event - If you would like to participate or have any questions regarding this competition, keep an eye on our PGR X account AND look closely to a wider number of events, workshops, sessions. Normally the information is send through the email researcher-development@glasgow.ac.uk.

We will see you next time!