Congratulations to Andrew Farrer, who won both the overall and people's choice award at our Three Minute Thesis competition final on Tuesday, 8 September 2015.
He was one of 10 of our PhD students who had just three minutes (and one PowerPoint slide) to describe their research. He's now off to Queensland to compete in the national final in early October.
The 2015 finalists and their topics were:
• Clare McGuiness (Faculty of Health Sciences) - Do you use your head or go with your gut?
• Viythia Katharesan (Faculty of Health Sciences) - The young and bold are not the same as the golden old.
• Sree Pramod Pinapati (Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences) - Peace of Mind: developing wearable antennae for 24/7 healthcare.
• Zahra Bagheri (Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences) - A robot with dragonfly vision.
• Ruidong Chang (Faculty of the Professions) - Towards sustainability in the Chinese construction industry: a socio-technical transition approach.
• Ngoc Pham (Faculty of the Professions) - Unlock the landlockedness: estimating the effects on economic development and welfare of countries without sea access.
• Chris Letheby (Faculty of Arts) - Naturalising psychedelic spirituality.
• Mensah Owusu (Faculty of Arts) - Climate justice: who does it really affect?
• Andrew Farrer (Faculty of Sciences) - Ancient DNA and the life on us.
• Daniel Trewartha (Faculty of Sciences - The influence of nothing on something.
7 сен 2015
