Junk the Jargon - Win £500 for 3 minutes' work!

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 27^th 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 and here.

If you have any questions, please e-mail Jo Cordy in ESD.

Details of your Graduate School’s heat:

Science & Engineering: Wednesday 13^th Jan, 5pm in Peoples Palace lecture theatre 1.

Humanities & Social Sciences: Wednesday 13^th Jan, 4:15pm, location TBC

School of Medicine & Dentistry: Wednesday 20^th Jan, Perrin lecture theatre, time TBC

Look out for e-mails with more details of the competition in the near future!

Graduate Entry Medicine - a chance to find out more

You may well be looking at this thinking "I've already got a degree and am halfway to getting a PhD. Why on earth would I want to spend even more time in education?!", but I do have a few friends who decided, post-PhD, to take on a medical degree, so I thought I'd draw your attention to this event in case it's something you were thinking about!

The University of London Careers Group are running a day called "Exploring Graduate Entry into Medicine" on 19th Feb next year. During the day you can find out about:

• Specific degrees, by talking to admissions staff, course organisers and medical students
• The major differences between the courses offered
• How to fund your medical degree
• Writing a successful application form and support statement
• The various entrance exams schools use.

The course is open for booking now, and more details can be found here.