Graduate Studies announce the fifth annual UCD ThesisIn3 competition. The UCD ThesisIn3 supports graduate research students in their development as confident research communicators, and we invite all UCD Stage 2 PhD Students to submit an entry and share your research with the UCD community.

Research students are challenged to present their research in three minutes, using only one slide, to a non-specialist audience. Entrants must distil their niche subjects and intensive research into bite-sized presentations that will inform and entertain the general public.

ThesisIn3 2022 Winners

Winner:

Tara Brady, UCD School of Medicine

Talk Title: An apple a day may keep the respiratory doctor away

Runners Up:

Lorna O'Donoghue, UCD School of Medicine / Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research

Talk title: Platelets Drive - WE survive

Sophie du Bois de Dunilac, UCD School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering/ Centre for Biomedical Engineering

Talk title: Get a Grip! How partial slipping of our fingers informs us of grip safety

SU Categories Winners:

• Catchiest Title - Sophie Du Bois De Dunilac, Get a Grip! How partial slipping of our fingers informs us of grip safety.

• Best Example - Ciara Lynch, Will David Attenborough be optimistic in Planet Earth III?

• Most thought provoking (the one we wanted to see more of) - Deirdre (Dee) Ryan, Mirrors aren’t just for reflection!

• Sweet spot between quantity of information and engagement - Maryam Saeed, Are you the 1 in 3? Smartly Detecting Cardiac Abnormalities

Acting Registrar, Deputy President and Vice President for Academic Affairs Professor Barbara Dooley; Dean of Graduate Studies Associate Professor Paul McCabe; Research student Ciara Lynch UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences; Assistant Professor Declan Fahie UCD School of Education (member of the judging panel); Research student and runner up Lorna O'Donoghue UCD School of Medicine / Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research; Research student and winner Tara Brady UCD School of Medicine; Research student  and runner up Sophie du Bois de Dunilac UCD School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering/ Centre for Biomedical Engineering; UCDSU Graduate Officer Carla Gummerson(member of the judging panel); Reserach student Deirdre (Dee) Ryan UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science; Outreach & Impact Scientist Philip Smyth

Last year's UCD ThesisIn3 and U21 Three Minute Thesis® Competition 2021 Winner:

Morgan Morris, from UCD School of Chemistry/ BiOrbic Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre with his talk: "Lactose in 3: A Cash Cow for Targeting Tumours."

View 2021 Finalists' videos

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