{"id":2779,"date":"2016-03-02T13:43:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T13:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:17:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:17:43","slug":"three-minute-thesis-competition-for-pgr-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/03\/02\/three-minute-thesis-competition-for-pgr-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-minute thesis competition for PGR students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Graduate School is running its first Three-Minute Thesis (3MT\u00ae) competition this year and will be entering the UK&#8217;s national competition.<\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0great opportunity\u00a0for PGR students to explain their research effectively in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The 3MT challenges postgraduate research students to present a compelling spoken presentation on their research topic and its significance in just three minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits of taking part:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop your public engagement and communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Opportunity to practise presenting your research to a non-specialist audience<\/li>\n<li>Opportunity to publicise your research and yourself as a researcher<\/li>\n<li>Chance to win prizes (of up to \u00a3600 towards expenses to attend a conference\/training event)<\/li>\n<li>Raise the profile of our thriving PG research community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information about the 3MT, including winning presentations from around the Globe can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/graduateschool\/news\/3MT2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For any questions please email: <a href=\"mailto:skills@kent.ac.uk\">skills@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to participate in the 3MT please <strong>register your interest by 14 March 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Graduate School is running its first Three-Minute Thesis (3MT\u00ae) competition this year and will be entering the UK&#8217;s national competition. This is\u00a0great opportunity\u00a0for PGR &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/03\/02\/three-minute-thesis-competition-for-pgr-students\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[872],"tags":[140006,210815,124,139996,70,140005],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}