TheUniversity of Winnipeg’s 10th annual 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competitionis returning to Eckhardt Gramatté Hall on Friday, March 3 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Over the course of the afternoon, 15 Faculty of Graduate Studies students will be presenting their complex research on a single slide to a panel of judges and a live audience in just three minutes.
我还将3MT视为机会和推动，不仅对观众，而且对我自己更加一致地表达我的论文项目。
穆罕默德AnasShoebullah Khan
The winner of this year’s 3MT will receive $1,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to the 2023 Western Regional 3MT at the University of Saskatchewan on May 7. There is also a new $500 second-place prize and a $500 People’s Choice Award.
The 3MT is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland, which challenges postgraduate degree students to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.
Meet this year’s3MT参与者
穆罕默德AnasShoebullah Khanis a first-year student in the Master of Arts in Environmental and Social Change program.
Anas热爱3MT的概念，并认为这将使他能够发展将复杂的学术概念传达成易于消耗的信息所需的技能。
“I also see the 3MT as an opportunity and a nudge to articulate my thesis project more coherently not just to the audience, but also to myself,” he said. “There is nothing more encouraging than to have clarity about what you intend to do with your thesis research.”
Anaswill be presenting his research,Fishing for Human Rights: Perspective from India’s Dried Fish他与Drs合作的经济。艾伦·迪克（Alan Diduck）和基里特·帕特尔（Kirit Patel）探索印度古吉拉特邦（Gujarat）干鱼经济的人权方面。
“干鱼具有巨大的社会，文化，营养和经济价值，但关于这种非正式经济的学术或政策文献中知之甚少。由于许多干鱼经济都是本地化的并且具有非正式的存在，因此人权的关注几乎是看不见的。”他说。“我的论文研究是关于在古吉拉特邦的这种经济工作，以及使人们在干鱼价值链中人性化的工作。”
Bilguundari Enkhtugsis currently in her second year of the Master of Arts in Criminal Justice program.
While she’s looking forward to sharing her thesis during the 3MT Competition, she also hopes to improve her presentation skills and get to know about research projects her peers are doing.
“在我们生活的繁忙世界中，没有太多的人有时间谈论我的论文，包括其发现和实际含义，因此我将这个场所视为与学术和非学术受众分享我的研究的机会，”她说。
Enkhtugs’s research,Experiences of Cyberbullying Through the Presentation of Self: Health Consequences and Needs，在Drs的监督下。凯文·沃尔比（Kevin Walby）和凯塔琳娜·迈耶（Katharina Maier）。
“Given that the effects of cyberbullying are disturbing and call for serious attention, especially in cases involving self-harm or internalized deviance, I aim to explore how young adults with experiences of cyberbullying cope with the negative consequences of it,” she explained. “I also aim to understand how young people present themselves in the virtual and physical spaces, and how their self-presentation changes over time using prominent sociologist Erving Goffman’s (1959) concept of The Presentation of Self.”
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry,Amandeep Kaur决定留在Uwinnipeg学习生物科学，技术和公共政策计划的科学硕士学位。
One of the reasons Kaur decided to participate in the 3MT Competition is because she loves public speaking and would like to improve her presentation skills.
Kaur将展示她的研究,Developing Simple Tests to Triage Thyroid Cancer Patients for Surgery,which is being conducted in Dr. Anuraag Shrivastav’s cancer lab.
“My research investigates the different effects of elevated protein expression in the two most common thyroid cancer types: papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and follicular thyroid cancer (FTC),” she said. “PTC and FTC are differentiated thyroid cancers. Differentiated thyroid cancer cells are very similar to tumors visually, which is the reason why clinicians have a hard time differentiating between them without surgical procedure.
Her research would lead to the necessary tools needed to diagnose patients that have benign or malignant tumors, which would save healthcare costs, physicians’ time, and prevent possible physical harm and suffering associated with contemporary methods of certain thyroid cancer screenings.
Judging the competition is Andrea Legary, Chair of the Board of Directors, Research Manitoba; Paul Samyn, Editor, Winnipeg Free Press; and Sherri Walsh, Managing Partner, Hill Sokalski Walsh LLP.
The 3-Minute Thesis Competition is a free event that’s open to the entire UWinnipeg community. To learn more, visit the officialUWinnipeg 3MT webpage.
