Congratulations to Physics and Astronomy student, Paul Gow, who has won the University’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT鈩�) Competition.
Using just one PowerPoint slide and no additional props or electronic media, postgraduate researcher Paul had just three minutes to present聽his research into ‘Emitters for Terahertz’. Paul鈥檚 research is in developing emitters that produce Terahertz light, which is light between the frequencies of infra-red and microwaves, and is useful in applications ranging from security and medicine to research and development.
Paul will now go on to represent the University at the national 3MT semi-finals in York on 14 July, where six candidates will be chosen to compete in the UK final to be held at the Vitae conference in September 2014.
Paul says: 鈥淓veryone’s talks were fantastic and it’s a great chance to see the kind of thing other faculties are researching. 聽I’m really happy to have won and now I’m looking forward to representing the University in the final.鈥�
The 3MT鈩� is a skills development activity, which聽challenges聽postgraduate researchers聽to explain their research project to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes.聽
About 150 of our Postgraduate researchers have been competing in a series of local heats during February and March.聽 The competition culminated聽in the last night (14 May) when eight finalists representing each of our eight faculties went head to head.
The other finalists competing alongside Paul were –
Fei Fang, Business Law and Art
‘Joint Pricing and Inventory Control for Perishable Products’
Hannah Shutt, Engineering and the Environment
‘Auditory fitness for duty.聽 Why do the armed forces need a new hearing test?’
搁辞办丑蝉补苍别丑听罢别丑谤补苍测, Health Sciences
‘Monitoring changes in lung health using speech breathing pattern analysis’
Sumei Karen Anne Tan, Humanities
‘The Comfort of Horror and the Ambiguities of Youth’
Matt Loxham, Medicine
‘How safe is the air in the underground?’
闯补尘别蝉听贵谤颈迟丑, Natural and Environmental Sciences
‘Supercharging Lithium Batteries: The challenges of lithium-oxygen cells’
Craig Allison, Social and Human Sciences
‘Removing the Gender Gap in Spatial Orientation’
Hannah Shutt was the runner-up and Paul also won the 鈥楶eople鈥檚 Choice award鈥�, as voted for by the audience as their favourite presenter.
The competition was jointly run by the University鈥檚 Researcher Development and Graduate Centre and Career Destinations, with additional support from PublicPolicy@Southampton