UC3M holds the third edition of Thesis Talk
How to present a thesis in three minutes
7/16/18
The Doctoral Degree School of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has held the third edition of Thesis Talk, a competition in which doctoral students present their research project in less than three minutes. This presentation, aimed at a non-specialist audience, tests the participants’ communication skills as well as their ability to summarise.
The winners of Thesis Talk 2018. From left to right, Juan Margalef, Carolina Ortega and Iñaki Úcar.
Participation increased by 30 percent at this year’s event. After various knockout rounds, sixteen of the sixty doctoral students who entered qualified for the final, which was held on Friday the 13th of July at the Madrid-Puerta de Toledo campus. During the event, the finalists presented their research projects in areas as diverse as law, economics, electrical engineering, computer science, mechanics and telematics, history, humanities, mathematics and journalism and communications.
The winners this year were: in first place, Carolina Ortega, with a project entitled Forced marriages in Mexican indigenous communities: cultural tradition or gender violence?, carried out as part of the doctoral degree in Advanced Studies in Human Rights; in second place was Juan Margalef, with a research project on The frontiers of physics, from the doctoral degree in Mathematical Engineering; lastly, Iñaki Úcar, enrolled on the doctoral degree programme in Telematic Engineering, won third prize with his project Energetic efficiency in wireless devices.
Participants in Thesis Talk have to make a presentation in less than three minutes, in Spanish or in English, using no resources other than a slide or transparency. The jury, made up of UC3M professors as well as experts from outside the university, assess the doctoral students’ ability to summarise their doctoral projects, their clarity of expression and their ability to present ideas and keep the attention of a non-specialist audience.
This presentation format – the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) – was developed by the University of Queensland (Australia) and has been adopted by more than two hundred universities around the world.
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