Can you communicate your research topic to a broad audience in 3 minutes?
Can you make it interesting, engaging and fun?
Do you want to win £500?!
If you think so, you should enter “Junk the Jargon”, a new competition for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers at Queen Mary.
A competition will be held in each Graduate School in January (details below), and successful participants will go through to the final, held on Wednesday 27th January, from 5pm. Anyone not participating in the competition is encouraged to come and watch and support the finalists. A drinks reception will be held afterwards.
The final will be judged by a panel of experts, including Prof. Sue Hartley, who is giving the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this year, and Dr Tiffany Jenkins, Arts & Society director at the Insitute of Ideas (www.instituteofideas.com). Prizes of £500, £250 and £100 will be awarded for the top three presentations.
You can view videos from a similar, national competition (Famelab) to get an idea of what you can do in 3 minutes: Here
If you have any questions, please e-mail Jo Cordy in ESD.
Details of your
Science & Engineering: Wednesday 13th Jan, 5pm in
Humanities & Social Sciences: Wednesday 13th Jan, 4:15pm, location TBC
School of Medicine & Dentistry: Wednesday 20th Jan, Perrin lecture theatre, time TBC
Look out for e-mails with more details of the competition in the near future!
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Will the presentations be recorded and made available on the web afterwards?
ReplyDeleteI am hoping to video the event so the presentations are available afterwards. I haven't quite figured out the details yet though!
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