Meet the winners of this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition

By Adam Smith, Senior Consultant, Universal Impact

The winners of a competition which challenges academics to explain their research in just three minutes have been announced.

A total of 850 researchers from across the UK entered the tenth annual Vitae Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition, which was sponsored by The Conversation through its Universal Impact training and mentoring subsidiary.

These were narrowed down first to 65 competitors and then six finalists, before a judging panel and a public vote determined the winning three.

The overall…

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