{"id":3093,"date":"2016-12-05T12:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T12:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:14:24","slug":"winner-of-sspssr-3-minute-thesis-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/12\/05\/winner-of-sspssr-3-minute-thesis-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of SSPSSR 3 Minute Thesis Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that Trent Grassian is this year\u2019s winner of the School\u2019s 3 Minute thesis competition. Trent, studying for a PhD in social policy, gave a thoughtful and interesting talk on \u2018<em>Cutting out the Meat: Motivators, Barriers and Opportunities for the Promotion of Meat Reduction, vegetarianism and veganism<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 3MT challenges postgraduate research students to develop their public engagement and communication skills by presenting a short and compelling spoken presentation on their research topic and its significance. It also provides students with an opportunity to publicise their research and themselves as researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Balihar Sanghera, one of the four judges, said \u201c<em>The standard was very high, but we felt Trent deserved to win because his presentation was well-delivered on a very interesting topic that aimed to contribute in an innovative way to the literature on the sociology of consumption<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that Trent Grassian is this year\u2019s winner of the School\u2019s 3 Minute thesis competition. Trent, studying for a PhD in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/12\/05\/winner-of-sspssr-3-minute-thesis-competition\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,124,789,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093"}],"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\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3095,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}