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.

U21 3MT® 2022 Competition Update

This year U21 have received 20 excellent entries, which have already won their own University's internal 3 Minute Thesis and have now been put forward for U21's Global Competition. The presentation with the most public votes will receive the People's Choice Prize. The People’s Choice vote is now open from Tuesday 20th September at 9am until Monday 3rd October.

You can cast your vote here supporting Tara Brady from UCD School of Medicine who is the UCD winner of Thesis In 3 2022 this year!

Good luck Tara!

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

For general enquiries, please email us using UCD Graduate Studies Connector.