Matariki Three Minute Thesis 2024 - We have a winner!

Sara Stickley (BMS) Matariki 3MT winner receiving certificate from the Dean

Queen's is proud to announce that Sara Stickley (PhD student in Biomedical & Molecular Sciences) is the winner of this year's Matariki 3MT.  The title of Sara's presentation was "Trust your gut...microbiota: It may be the key to uncovering childhood asthma risk".  Sara's supervisor is Dr Qingling Duan.

Seven of the Matariki members forwarded their two best doctoral 3MT participants to be a part of this year's event.  Queen's second participant was Sumaiya Karim (Chemical Engineering) whose presentation title was - "Shaping a clearer future with Dynamic Materials

Other Results for 2024 were:

Runner-up 鈥 Josie Quin-Conroy (UWA) - 鈥淭hinking with both sides of the brain鈥 (Psychological Science);

Runner-up 鈥 Linda Wilson (UWA) 鈥 鈥淏eyond the birds and the bees: Engaging beekeeper鈥檚 knowledge of the environment to improve management of public lands in South-west Western Australia鈥 (Social Sciences, Geography).

People鈥檚 Choice 鈥 Miriam Schiele (T眉bingen) 鈥 鈥淗arry Potter and the Philosopher鈥檚 Preposition: English flexibility vs German precision 鈥(Linguistics).

You can view this year鈥檚 video presentations here: 

 

Queen's has participated in the Matariki 3MT since its inception in 2019.  Results so far, which we can now add Sara too are:

2019 - Runner up - Nevena Martinovic (English Language and Literature - 鈥淎cting your age 鈥 Gender & age on the 18th century stage鈥

2020 - Winner - Sean Marrs (History) - "City of Spies"

2021 - Runner Up - Samantha Twietmeyer (Political Studies) - 鈥淪cared of what鈥檚 behind you 鈥 Negotiating a double minority dilemma鈥

2022 - Runner Up - Madison Robertson (Health Quality) - "Till Death do us part: Supporting spouses separated in long-term care鈥

2022 - People's Choice - Navjit Gaurav (Rehabilitation Science) - 鈥淲hat goes inside a Designer鈥檚 Mind?鈥

 

The Matariki Network of Universities (MNU) seeks to build upon the collective strengths of its member institutions to develop international excellence in research and education and to promote social responsibility locally and globally.  Member Universities of the Matariki Network are:

  • 成人大片 (Canada)
  • Dartmouth University (USA)
  • Durham University (UK)
  • University of Otago (New Zealand)
  • University of T眉bingen (Germany)
  • University of Western Australia (Australia)
  • University of Western Cape (South Africa)
  • Uppsala University (Sweden)