Congratulations to our 2021 UWA Three Minute Thesis winners! Thank you to everyone who participated, watched, shared and voted in the competition. It was wonderful to see our community rally in support of our up-and-coming researchers.

Winner - UWA 3MT
How burn injuries affect the brain and mental health
3MT TEDxUWA Award winner
Too hot to learn
Matariki 3MT representative
A recipe for beating cancer
Winner - UWA 3MT People's Choice
A 'Radical' Approach to Molecular Electronics

The 2021 3MT videos

  • Amina Saeed
    Predicting the Future of Rivers Through High Resolution Modelling and Monitoring
    • School of Engineering
    • Supervisors: Carolyn Oldham, Matt Hipsey and Kerry Trayler
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    School of Engineering
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  • Amira Allahham
    How burn injuries affect the brain and mental health
    • School of Biomedical Sciences
    • Supervisors: Mark Fear, Andrew Stevenson, Alexander Tang, Jennifer Rodger and Fiona Wood
    • Winner - UWA 3MT
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    School of Biomedical Sciences
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  • Camilla Soravia
    Too hot to learn
    • School of Biomedical Sciences
    • Supervisors: Mandy Ridley, Benjamin Ashton and Leigh Simmons
    • 3MT TEDxUWA Award winner
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    School of Biomedical Sciences
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  • Deepa Basnet
    Farmers, tourism operators and my poor lake in between
    • School of Agriculture and Environment
    • Supervisors: Ram Pandit, Abbie Rogers and Rajesh Rai
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    School of Agriculture and Environment
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  • Dorinda 't Hart
    Should you talk about abortion? Researching an uneasy space.
    • School of Social Sciences
    • Supervisors: Katie Attwell and Sam Han
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    School of Social Sciences
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  • Ella Shilliday
    Oil and Water Don't Mix ... Lies Your Granny Told You
    • School of Engineering
    • Supervisors: Michael Johns, Einar Fridjonsson and Brendan Graham
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    School of Engineering
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  • Emily Purvis
    Choose your own adventure
    • Graduate School of Education
    • Supervisors: Jennifer Shand and Grace Oakley
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    Graduate School of Education
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  • Emma Panting
    Glucocorticoids – a steroid hormone essential for development but not without adversity
    • School of Human Sciences
    • Supervisors: Caitlin Wyrwoll, Karen Chapman,Peter Mark and Brendan Waddell
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    School of Human Sciences
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  • Eric Alves
    A recipe for beating cancer
    • School of Human Sciences
    • Supervisors: Silvana Gaudieri, Pilar Blancafort and Yu Suk Choi
    • Matariki 3MT representative
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    School of Human Sciences
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  • Fraser Windsor
    Making new Antibiotics using Bacterial Assembly Lines
    • School of Molecular Sciences
    • Supervisors: Yit Heng Chooi, Marianne Costa and Alice Vrielink
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    School of Molecular Sciences
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  • Fui Ling Voon
    Unfolding a Beautiful Mind with Dexies
    • School of Biomedical Sciences
    • Supervisors: Mathew Martin-Iverson and Jennifer Rodger
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    School of Biomedical Sciences
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  • Gilang Bintang Fajar Suhono
    Meant to be Bound
    • School of Molecular Sciences
    • Supervisors: Ian Small and Joanna Melonek
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    School of Molecular Sciences
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  • Hannah Newnes
    Goldilocks and the 3 tumours: too hot, too cold and just right
    • School of Biomedical Sciences
    • Supervisors: Jason Waithman, Bree Foley, Jesse Armitage and Sonia Fernandez
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    School of Biomedical Sciences
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  • Hien Thi Nguyen
    Successful ageing: Novel perspectives from Vietnamese migrants in Australia
    • School of Social Sciences
    • Supervisors: Loretta Baldassar, Raelene Wilding and Lukasz Krzyzowski
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    School of Social Sciences
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  • Jack McElhinney
    Gills, Oxygen, and Vulnerability
    • School of Biomedical Sciences
    • Supervisors: Jessica Meeuwig, Dirk Zeller and Rory McAuley
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    School of Biomedical Sciences
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  • Jake Manger
    Understanding vision with artificial intelligence and virtual reality
    • School of Biomedical Sciences
    • Supervisors: Jan Hemmi, Mohammed Bennamoun and Karen Osborn
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    School of Biomedical Sciences
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  • Julie Weekes
    Man's Best Friend? The Human-Canine Bond in Ancient Greece
    • School of Humanities
    • Supervisors: Lara-Louisa O'Sullivan and Christopher Mallan
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    School of Humanities
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  • Laurent Jospin
    Towards Generalized Holographic Communication
    • School of Physics, Mathematics & Computing
    • Supervisors: Mohammed Bennamoun, Farid Boussaid and Hamid Laga
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    School of Physics, Mathematics & Computing
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  • Majiga Enkhsaikhan
    Text to Knowledge
    • School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
    • Supervisors: Wei Liu, Eun-Jung Holden and Paul Duuring
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    School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
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  • Michael Young
    Managing seasonal variation in broad-acre farm businesses
    • School of Agriculture and Environment
    • Supervisors: Phil Vercoe and Ross Kingwell
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    School of Agriculture and Environment
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  • Mohammed Junaid
    Facing the World
    • School of Population & Global Health
    • Supervisors: Linda Slack-Smith, Helen Leonard and Gareth Baynam
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    School of Population & Global Health
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  • Sahar Goudarzi
    Finding certainty in uncertainty
    • UWA Business School
    • Supervisors: Paul Bergey and Doina Olaru
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    UWA Business School
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  • Sarah De La Harpe
    Avoiding Social Blunders: Do People Interpret and Respond to Different Sad Faces in Distinct Ways?
    • School of Psychological Science
    • Supervisors: Romina Palermo and Gilles Gignac
    • Runner-up 2021 UWA 3MT
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    School of Psychological Science
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  • Stephy Vijaya Kumar Jayasree
    The cornea of the eye can get too wet and disrupt vision; how can we measure it?
    • School of Physics, Mathematics & Computing
    • Supervisors: Vincent Wallace and Barry Cense
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    School of Physics, Mathematics & Computing
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  • Varshini Jayantha Kumar
    A 'Radical' Approach to Molecular Electronics
    • School of Molecular Sciences
    • Supervisors: Paul Low and George Koutsantonis
    • Winner - UWA 3MT People's Choice
    Category
    School of Molecular Sciences
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  • Wesley Moss
    Sustainable Harvesting that Doesn't Suck
    • School of Engineering
    • Supervisors: Andrew Guzzomi and Phillip Nichols
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    Category
    School of Engineering
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    Finalists
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