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HKU to hold Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition 2013

10 Jun 2013

 

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will be held tomorrow (June 11, Tuesday). HKU Associate Vice-President Professor Paul Y. S. Cheung will be the officiating guest of the Competition.  The adjudicating panel will comprise both internal and external members.  Mr Man Cheuk Fei, HKU Council Member; and Ms Linda Yeung, Education Editor of the South China Morning Post, are the external members on the adjudicating panel of the final competition. The HKU 3MT champion will have the chance to represent HKU at the Trans-Tasman 3MT Competition to be held at the University of Western Sydney in Parramatta on October 18, 2013.

A total of 42 research postgraduate (MPhil and PhD) students will participate in the Competition this year.  Ten finalists to be shortlisted from the heats will enter the final competition to compete for five prizes.  Each contestant will have only three minutes to explain his/her research project, using no more than one static PowerPoint slide and in language that is appropriate to a non-specialist audience.  Apart from the top three winners, there will be a People’s Choice Award, to be determined by audience ballot at the final competition.  In addition, the Online People’s Choice Award will be opened for voting via YouTube after the event to promote the 3MT concept to young researchers and the public.

Members of the press are cordially invited to attend the Competition.  Details are as follows:
Date: June 11, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:00 to 4:30pm (Final Competition)
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Remarks: The Competition will be conducted in English

For media enquiries, please contact the Knowledge Exchange Office (tel: 2299 0172; email: keoffice@hku.hk ); or Ms Julie Chu (Knowledge Exchange Officer), Communications and Public Affairs Office, Tel: 2859 2437 email: juliechu@hku.hk .

About Three Minute Thesis (3MT®)
The 3MT was developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia in 2008. This is an academic competition that challenges research postgraduate students to explain their research within 3 minutes to a general audience.  The 3MT Competition is a very meaningful event as it not only celebrates the discoveries made by research students, but also encourages skill development in communicating the importance of research to the broader community.  The 3MT concept has also been adopted internationally with competitions now being held in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Vietnam.  HKU is the first university in Hong Kong that has organized the 3MT Competition.