The Three Minute Thesis really focuses on building
communication skills for PhD students.
So it forces them to encapsulate the research
and communicate that in a way that is accessible to
the general audience.
The elevator pitch, you know, you hear in business right.
So you've got somebody that you want to sell your idea to.
You've only got them for a very short period of time,
and so you have to have that message readily at hand.
It's got to be interesting, it's got to be accessible,
and it's really got to hook them in to the importance
of what you're doing.
Within the University of Queensland there is usually
between two and three hundred students who
compete each year, but across all the Universities
that now run it around the world, it's literally
tens of thousands of students now.
The PhD students really embrace the opportunity to
participate in the Three Minute Thesis competition.
It gives them an opportunity to crystallise
their thinking around their PhD, and really gives them
an opportunity to demonstrate what the impact is of
their research and what excites them about the research,
and how they can communicate that to the general audience
is a really important skill for them to develop.
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