Three Minute Thesis Competition
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
Tuesday 24 June 2025
5 - 7pm
C2.12
115 New Cavendish Street
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia (threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au).
The competition gives doctoral researchers a chance to communicate the importance of their research beyond their discipline and their peers — in three minutes, with no notes and with only one slide.
It’s a brilliant opportunity to hear about the research done by some of our doctoral researchers and to support those taking part.
Meet the participants....
Dina Ahmed
Stav B
Ayushi Chamoli
Junseok de Back
Margaret Go
Timur Martinez-Mukimov
Mariam Selim
Laima Tokhi
Meet the Judges...
Professor Dame Judith Petts
Professor Dame Judith Petts retired in September 2024 as Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Plymouth, a post she held for almost 9 years. In a 45-year career in higher education, senior roles included as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer at both Birmingham and Southampton Universities.
She is a member of the Board of the Marine Management Organisation, a Trustee of the Marine Biological Association and chairs the Energy Programme Board for the Great South-West Pan Regional Partnership. Previous external appointments include as a member of the Council of BBSRC (2014-18) and NERC (2000-6); the Science Advisory Council of Defra (2011-16), and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (2006-11). She was a Director of the Heart of the South-West Local Economic Partnership (2016-24) and chaired the Universities UK Climate Action Steering Group.
She was appointed CBE in 2012, for services to Scientific Research, and Dame Commander in the King’s Birthday Honours 2024, for services to Higher Education and Sustainability.
Dr Margherita Sprio
Margherita Sprio is Reader in Film and Visual Culture, School of Arts, and is Director of the Graduate School at the University of Westminster. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths (University of London) and The Slade School of Art (University College London) and then worked for a time showing her work internationally before completing her PhD at Goldsmiths.
Margherita moved from making photographic and film works to writing and teaching about film and visual culture. She joined the University of Westminster in 2011 and has previously taught at a number of institutions in the UK including Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths, Middlesex University, Central St Martins and University of Essex.
She is also the author of Migrant Memories: Cultural History, Cinema and the Italian Post-War Diaspora in Britain (Peter Lang, 2013) and is currently working on her forthcoming book, Women in the Frame: Feminist Intimacies on the British Screen (Bloomsbury Academic).
Professor Debra Kelly
Debra Kelly is Professor Emerita in Modern Languages, School of Humanities, University of Westminster and a researcher in the HOMELandS (Hub on Migration, Exile, Languages and Space) research group. She is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking, Global Cultures Institute, King’s College London.
Her current research focuses on the historical and contemporary French and Francophone communities in London and she is working on the politicisation of hospitality and restaurant culture. Amongst her publications, she is co-editor of A History of the French in London. Liberty, Equality, Opportunity (2013) and author of Fishes with Funny French Names. A History of the French Restaurant in London from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century (2022).
During her career at Westminster, Debra was particularly engaged with the Graduate School and doctoral researcher support and development and with public engagement, curating two editions of The Difference Festival.
