Postgraduate students prepare for battle against the clock
29 July 2021
Thirteen postgraduate students will take on the ultimate battle against the clock at the highly anticipated Three Minute Thesis Final on Friday 6 August.
Ten doctoral candidates and three masters students will take the stage at the Three Minute Thesis Final next Friday, tasked with the challenge of sharing their research in just 180 seconds.
The highly anticipated annual event is a chance for postgraduate students from all faculties to come together and share their research to a general audience, with nothing but a single slide.
In addition to prizes and prestige, the doctoral winner will go on to represent the University of Auckland at the doctoral U21 3MT Virtual competition and the masters winner will compete at the Inter-University Masters Final.
Students qualified for the final by winning their Faculty Heat or Open Heat. In faculties that had high numbers of competitors, the runners-up also qualified for the final.
Want to find out who’s in the running? Meet the finalists below.
Masters finalists
Riley Scott (Faculty of Law)
Financing Net Zero: An Analysis of Sustainability Investment and Reporting in New Zealand
Sebastian Dunn (Faculty of Science)
Virtual Reality DNA: Picking up the Molecules of Life
Rachel Lawson (Faculty of Science)
Human mobility during COVID-19
Doctoral finalists
Luke Boyle (Faculty of Science)
Understanding surgical outcomes using data
Krish Chaudhuri (Faculty of Engineering)
Fixing broken hearts: computer modelling for bypass surgery
Derek Orbaugh Antillon (Auckland Bioengineering Institute)
Enhancing Diver Capabilities with Dielectric Elastomers
Amy Renelle (Faculty of Science)
Perceptions of Randomness
Georgi Toma (Faculty of Education and Social Work)
From Burning Out to Burning Bright
Prakriti Vashishtha (Faculty of Arts)
ProcrastiNation: unsettled times in Māori and Pakeha fiction
Sneha Chrysolite Gray (Faculty of Business and Economics)
Reimagining Place and Identity
Danial Jahanshahi (Faculty of Engineering)
Equity in Cycling
Joseph Chen (Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences)
Depression Treatment: Let's Do Better
Sam Mackay (Faculty of Business and Economics)
Drunk, monk, hunk or chunk: Expatriate work and wellbeing in Kabul, Afghanistan
Join the audience at the 3MT Final
Want to support our students, learn more about postgraduate research, and cast your vote for the People's Choice Award? Register for your ticket to join the audience.