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		<title>ME and VYT: Raising awareness for myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (Tina Katsaros)</title>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222;font-family: inherit">Myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): A hard disease to say, and a practically impossible disease to live with. The <a href="https://www.latrobe.edu.au/library/research-support/visualise-your-thesis-competition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visualise Your Thesis (VYT)</a> and <a href="https://www.latrobe.edu.au/researchers/grs/red/initiatives/3mt-competition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3 Minute Thesis (3MT)</a> competitions taught me how to be direct, concise and creative in my science communication about a complex disease and complex research.</span></div>
<p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: inherit"><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222">From the very start of my PhD, I had a strong desire to raise awareness for ME/CFS and to help fight for the millions out there who can’t; for the <a href="https://www.meactions.org/millionsmissing2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#MillionsMissing</a>. And what better day to share this post about my experience with VYT than on <a href="https://may12th.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ME/CFS Awareness Day</a>.</span><br style="color: #222222" /><br style="color: #222222" /></span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: inherit;font-size: large"><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222"><b><i>How was your day? The importance of research communication</i></b></span></span></h3>
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<p>Through my undergraduate and postgraduate studies, I worked as a waitress in a restaurant. Whenever I would come home, I would sit down with my family and tell them about my day, things that frustrated me or customers being Karens. A totally normal experience, working and coming home and telling everyone about your day. But, when I started my postgraduate studies, I found it almost impossible to answer when family and friends asked: “How was work?” This wasn’t because of short-term memory loss; I just had no idea how to explain my work to people without a background in science. I would try my best to explain things, and they would try their best to understand, but most of the time I got blank stares.</p>
<p>These experiences made me acutely aware of how important it is to be able to effectively communicate your research and how difficult it is to reach non-specialised audiences. Communicating your research is hard enough but having to think of new and creative ways to explain it, in language that everyone will understand – well, that felt like going against everything I’d been taught to do for years. Instead of using complicated jargon, I had to find ways to explain things in basic terms and, when you’re dealing with complex biological systems and pathways, that becomes tricky.</p>
<p>But I didn’t have to figure it out all on my own. I’m extremely fortunate to be at a university where the research communication is recognised as an essential skill and there are various ways that it’s encouraged. These include things like the 3MT competition, where I came first place, and the VYT competition, where I won runner up and people’s choice vote.</p>
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<p>My first experience in these competitions was the 3MT. Not only do you have to condense your research into a three-minute speech, but you also only get one static slide as a visual. The result was me hand-drawing four cartoon figures (representing proteins or pathways in the cell) in a line-up at a police station with a “whodunnit” themed monologue. I had such fun, from brainstorming novel and interesting ways to present my research, to figuring out how I was going to represent (and draw!) different aspects of cell biology as human figures.</p>
<p>As much as I enjoyed the 3MT experience, I still felt as though I wanted to challenge myself further and wanted to have a bigger focus on ME/CFS, specifically, rather than the biological systems I was researching. I wanted to raise awareness of not only what I do as a researcher but why I do it.</p>
<p>Then my supervisor told me about VYT. I absolutely loved the idea of creating a video that challenged me to explain my research in only a minute. Talk about the ultimate elevator pitch! So, I began brainstorming ideas on how to explain my research in a mere 60 seconds. At first, I felt like there was no way it was possible. Saying an eleven-syllable disease name alone takes up a big chunk of time! But I realised the message had to be stripped back and I needed to figure out what I most wanted to get across. The next question was how I would do it.</p>
<p>I was determined to come up with a really powerful way of explaining the disease and I wanted equally powerful visuals to accompany it. At first, I started searching for stock clips to use and all I found were these perfectly makeup-done girls looking tired in their bedrooms. That didn’t really give what I needed it to give. And that’s when I had a lightbulb moment: “Who better to show what living with ME/CFS is like than people with ME/CFS?”. So, I turned to social media and asked for short clips of what life looks like living with ME/CFS. I felt so privileged to be able to include these in my VYT entry and raise awareness, providing a little window into the lived reality of ME/CFS.</p>
<p>As an added bonus, I was still able to add in some of my quirky little doodles toward the second half of the minute, but I thought the clips from people with ME/CFS had an incredible impact, and clearly a lot of people agreed.</p>
<p>Participating in VYT was an amazing experience and it forced me to think about my research in the most basic of ways: the “what”, “why” and “how” of it all. It further solidified how impactful research communication can be and why it’s so crucial to have these skills as a researcher and to constantly challenge yourself and adapt the way that you present your work to the world.</p>
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<p>BIO:&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white;color: #222222"><i>Tina Katsaros is a PhD student at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, working under Dr Sarah Annesley and funded by ME Research UK. She is a cell biologist investigating abnormalities in mitochondrial function, metabolism and signalling in cells from people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). Her PhD project focuses on understanding disease mechanisms driving energy inefficiency in ME/CFS cells and distinguishing cause from effect between these abnormalities. </p>
<p>She is also interested in calcium signalling and its role in neurological disorders having investigated calcium signalling in Parkinson’s disease during her honours degree.</i></span></span></div>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit"><i><br style="color: #222222" /><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222">Beyond the lab, Tina has a strong interest in science communication and making research accessible to all. She has organised various workshops aimed at improving oral and written science communications skills as well as participating and succeeding in various science communication competitions.</p>
<p>You can find Tina on <a href="https://x.com/tinakatsaros" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X/Twitter</a>, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/tinakatsaros.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bluesky </a>and <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/tinakatsaros" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a></p>
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<div><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222"><span style="font-family: inherit">As researchers, we have a tendency to get buried in journals, or spend countless hours in the lab, hunched over computers. We’re trained to focus on the intricacies of our work, ensuring every detail is meticulously documented and every result is accurately reported. But there&#8217;s another skill that&#8217;s increasingly crucial: effectively communicating your research to others.</span></span></div>
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<p><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222;font-family: inherit">In fact, effective communication is one of the top skills that employers value. Just check out these posts at&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/resumes-cover-letters/skills-employers-look-for" style="background-color: white;font-family: inherit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Indeed</a><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222;font-family: inherit">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-strategy/linkedin-most-in-demand-hard-and-soft-skills" style="background-color: white;font-family: inherit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222;font-family: inherit">&nbsp;highlighting communication as their most in-demand skill for 2024. It’s no longer enough to be an expert in your field; you must also be able to convey your ideas clearly and persuasively to a wide variety of audiences, not all of whom are familiar with your subject area.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: inherit"><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222">Whether you&#8217;re explaining your research to a non-specialist, pitching your ideas to potential collaborators, or presenting your findings at a conference, your ability to communicate can make or break your career, especially with more employers, universities, and grant-funding bodies considering communications and outreach work as crucial for jobs and funding.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: inherit"><span style="color: #222222"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222">But learning how to communicate effectively to a wide variety of audiences isn’t something that’s always built into traditional PhD or Masters by research programs. Luckily, at La Trobe, there are opportunities for you to get active experience in communicating your research </span><i style="color: #222222">while</i><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222"> you’re still studying for your degree. One of these opportunities is the </span><a href="https://www.latrobe.edu.au/library/research-support/visualise-your-thesis-competition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visualise Your Thesis (VYT)</a><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222"> competition which I entered (winning second place) last year and which resulted in </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCjCC1FVpac&amp;list=PLzqX1yDARx7cW_HTrBYm0EKJsnYzqNaG7&amp;index=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">my short video</a><span style="background-color: white;color: #222222"> being chosen for screening at my very first film festival! &lt;cue shocked Pikachu meme&gt;</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: inherit"><span style="color: #222222"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222">Let’s rewind to where it all started. In 2023, as a first-year PhD student, I decided to enter the University’s VYT competition. The task? To transform my dense, complex research into a snappy 60-second video that general audiences could understand. The outcome? Well, I think I already spoiled that ending.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: inherit"><span style="color: #222222"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222">The idea of condensing years of painstaking research into just one minute seemed overwhelming, intimidating and, at times, damn near impossible. I’d occasionally ventured into the realm of creating videos for school assignments before (usually to somewhat embarrassing results – no I will not show you </span><i style="color: #222222">that </i><span style="color: #222222">video for French class), but never with such stringent requirements or applied to such a large and complex topic. And because I’m a glutton for punishment, I decided it would be triply fun to animate my video, something I had absolutely no experience in, nor seemingly any means by which to do so (and if that’s not an indication I’m a true PhD student, I don’t know what is!)&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: inherit"><span style="color: #222222"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222">Communicating research can be difficult at times (as a geoarchaeologist, most people assume I spend my days staring intently at rocks and dirt), but the one truth that I found the most ease in was that I had to get to the </span><i style="color: #222222">beating heart </i><span style="color: #222222">of my research. What’s the<i> one</i> thing that truly matters? What drew me to this research and what can I see my audience being interested in, too?</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: inherit"><span style="color: #222222"><br /></span>For me, archaeology&nbsp;</span>–<span style="font-family: inherit">&nbsp;and geoarchaeology, specifically — is all about the context it helps provide to us about archaeological sites, their ancient peoples, and what we can understand about how they lived. First year archaeology students learn that we can obtain all the artifacts we could ever want, but if we don’t know where they came from, why, and how, their usefulness can decline significantly outside of being really lovely paperweights, or worse – </span><a href="https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/uploads/Programs_CulturalHeritageandPaleontology_Archaeology_WhatWeManage_Colorado_HelpPreserveOurPastBrochure.pdf" style="font-family: inherit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">materials on the black market</a><span style="font-family: inherit">.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #222222">So, I started to think: “Without context, we have no archaeology. Without archaeology we wouldn’t know much about past peoples and their cultures. Without this knowledge we’d have to rely on spotty and often inaccurate written accounts to understand the past…and I think we all know how poorly <i>that</i> can go. So, context = key?” Ding ding ding, we have a winner!</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #222222">And this beating heart proved interesting not only to me, but also the VYT judges and the <a href="https://sf3.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">film festival organisers</a> who chose my work to be screened alongside 23 other incredible works from global artists.</span></div>
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<div>This recognition opened new doors for me. It gave me the confidence to seek out other opportunities to present my research and further develop my communication skills; recently resulting in me winning my school’s <a href="https://www.latrobe.edu.au/researchers/grs/red/initiatives/3mt-competition">3MT (Three Minute Thesis)</a> competition heat. It also highlighted the importance of storytelling in research and the power of visual communication.</div>
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<div>Participating in the VYT competition taught me more than just how to create an animated video. It underscored the importance of clear and engaging communication in all aspects of professional life and just how quickly effective communication can result in tangible results, not just within academia, but also from those far outside your discipline.</div>
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<div>And for those of you who have submitted your own VYT entries for 2024, remember that the skills and experiences you gain will be invaluable, not just for your research, but for your future career. You might even find yourself at a film festival, watching your work light up the big screen, or landing your dream job because you nailed the presentation. The journey may be challenging, but the rewards are definitely worth it.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center"><b><span style="background-color: white;font-family: inherit;font-size: large">The 2024 La Trobe University 3MT Championship will be held on September 13. <br />The winner of this year&#8217;s VYT competition will be announced as part of the event. <br />You can register to attend, and find our more, </span><a href="https://www.latrobe.edu.au/researchers/grs/red/initiatives/3mt-competition" style="background-color: white;font-family: inherit;font-size: large" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a><span style="background-color: white;font-family: inherit;font-size: large">.</span></b></div>
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<p><i style="background-color: transparent;font-family: inherit">BIO:&nbsp;Having received her BS in Geosciences and BAs in Classics and Anthropology at Penn State, and her Masters in Archaeological Science at Cambridge, <a href="https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/n2nagle " target="_blank" rel="noopener">Natasha Nagle is now a PhD candidate at La Trobe</a>, researching the ancient Damya Lake in the Northeastern Jordan Valley and how its environment could have affected peoples living at nearby archaeological sites. She is a great believer in researchers gaining the skills and confidence to communicate their own work in interesting and engaging ways, without having to sacrifice all their free-time or sanity to do so, and you can often find her curled up with tea and a good book or writing truly terrible (but funny) historically based poetry.&nbsp;</i></div>
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<p></span><br />She can be reached at: <a href="mailto:Natasha.Nagle@latrobe.edu.au">Natasha.Nagle@latrobe.edu.au</a></div>
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		<title>Why 3MT? A reflection from the 2020 University Champion (Sam Harvey)</title>
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<p>This is a photo of my friend, Kym. Last year, I entered and won the La Trobe University Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) with a story about Kym and his life with a condition called aphasia. Kym is depicted holding a piece of paper: the torn corner representing the communication limitations caused by aphasia. Kym’s evocative story made a complex point easier to communicate.&nbsp;</p>
<p>What inspired me to enter 3MT in the first place?&nbsp;</p>
<p>I’m going to tell you why, and what I did to produce the winning presentation.<span></span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left"><strong>Why 3MT?</strong></h3>
<p>3MT is an international competition that “cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills” (<a href="https://threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au/about">threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au/about</a>). Participants are given three minutes to discuss their PhD against the backdrop of a single static slide.</p>
<p>Effective communication is an essential life skill. In academia, we are constantly reformulating our ideas to suit different audiences, contexts, and purposes. Research communication takes practice and by participating in 3MT you get valuable feedback on how to develop your communication skills.</p>
<p>In order to present a cohesive and flowing story, you need to think very carefully about the nuts and bolts of your work. 3MT forced me to distil the details of my project into a dense liquor (just a few swigs will give you a good taste of my project) and I continue to use lines from my 3MT presentation on a regular basis because they succinctly capture what my work is about.</p>
<p>The competition carries some prestige. Participating brings exposure to your work and acknowledgement of your efforts from your mentors and peers. This acknowledgement can really reinforce your purpose at times when the going is hard.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Opportunities will arise. &nbsp;Since winning 3MT, I’ve spoken about my work on radio and been invited to present about science communication in a range of academic and clinical contexts. The prize money is generous and can fundamentally shift the PhD budget landscape.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left"><strong>My tips on how to approach 3MT</strong></h3>
<p><strong>1. Prepare</strong></p>
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<p>Know what the judges are looking for. Study the scoring criteria. Watch 3MT videos online and judge them yourself. Notice the ways presenters satisfy the judging requirements – use of narrative structure, vocabulary, and intonation patterns to make a complex story comprehensible and engaging.</p>
<p><b>2.&nbsp;</b><strong>Think carefully about these questions</strong></p>
<p>What’s the one key message you are trying to convey? If I were to ask a listener what my talk was about, what would I want them to say? My key message was: There’s this thing called aphasia, it’s a big problem, I’m doing something about it.</p>
<p>What is the arc of your story? How will you keep people engaged? Kym’s story formed the backbone of my presentation. His captivating visage helped snare people’s attention and kept them engaged long enough for me to tell them about my work. I kept bringing the story back to Kym as linking the science to the individual helped keep the message salient and relevant.</p>
<p><b>3.&nbsp;</b><strong>Structure</strong></p>
<p>I used the <em>Context, Action, Result</em> structure and spent about one minute on each section. What’s the problem? What am I doing about it? What’s the outcome? At the time of competing, I didn’t have any results to report. Instead, I spoke about my hypotheses and the possible implications of my work.</p>
<p><b>4.&nbsp;</b><strong>Choose your words carefully</strong></p>
<p>Script your talk, rewrite it, and seek feedback from peers, supervisors and people who don’t know about your topic area. If jargon or unfamiliar terms are unavoidable, define them carefully and use sparingly: <em>“Kym has aphasia. Aphasia is a communication disability caused by damage to the brain.”</em></p>
<p><strong>5. Delivery matters</strong></p>
<p>Use a variety of speech rhythms, intonation patterns and pauses to emphasise certain words, phrases and ideas and to transition from one section or idea to another. Used sparingly, speaking quickly can give a sense of urgency or importance, but can also come across as nervy or rushed if overused. Conversely, speaking slowly brings a sense of gravity, confidence or thoughtfulness, but can becoming disengaging if overused.</p>
<p><b>6.&nbsp;</b><strong>Practice relentlessly</strong></p>
<p>If your script isn’t running through your head while you take a shower, practice some more.</p>
<p><b>Finally</b>, embrace your vulnerability and take the plunge! Yes, you will be putting yourself on show and exposing yourself to scrutiny, which can be anxiety-provoking. But, rest assured, the 3MT competition at La Trobe University provides a safe environment to practice, hone, and perfect your research communication skills.</p>
<p>Go forth and communicate!</p>
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<li><b>Link to Sam’s 3MT presentation: </b><a href="https://vimeo.com/456769911">https://vimeo.com/456769911</a></li>
<li><b>More information about 3MT at La Trobe:</b> <a href="https://www.latrobe.edu.au/research/red/initiatives/3mt-competition">https://www.latrobe.edu.au/research/red/initiatives/3mt-competition</a>&nbsp;</li>
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<p><i>Sam Harvey</i><i> </i></b><i>is a speech pathologist and graduate researcher within the Centre of Research Excellence in Aphasia Recovery and Rehabilitation. Sam is studying the effect of dose of language therapy on recovery of language skills in people with aphasia under Professor Miranda Rose.&nbsp;</i></div>
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<div><i>Sam is passionate about building advocacy and community support for people living with aphasia. He is a committee member for Aphasia Victoria, a consumer advisory group for people with aphasia in Victoria, and co-facilitates the Windy Hill Community Aphasia Group.&nbsp;</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666">watching their colleague Catina Adams&#8217; presentation (at Bundoora)</span><br />
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<p>Yeah, nah, I&#8217;m not talking about the footy grand finals! It&#8217;s much more important than that.</p>
<p>The finals I&#8217;m talking about involve much shorter performances, fewer meat pies, and appropriate hand gestures.</p>
<p>Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year again: La Trobe&#8217;s 3MT grand finals!</p>
<p>As with last year, the university finals will take place within <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/research-week">Research Week</a> and it&#8217;s always a great event. Not only do you get to see our fabulous emerging researchers take to the stage with their powerful, finely honed talks, you also have a chance to vote in the People&#8217;s Choice Award (which is always a highlight for me &#8211; gotta love having a say, right?).</p>
<p>The university 3MT finals have it all: good company, intellectual stimulation, and collegial competition!&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/la-trobe-3mt-championship-tickets-36475931493"><b>Make sure you register to attend for 30 August!</b></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve just attended both the ASSC and SHE College finals in the last fortnight, and livetweeted my way through the presentations and awards. If you have a look over the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=%23LTU3MT&amp;src=typd">#LTU3MT</a> hashtag on Twitter, you&#8217;ll see some of the action that took place.</p>
<p><span id="more-1265"></span>For the spectators of the 3MT events, it&#8217;s a fast and furious feast of the stunning and important work that&#8217;s taking place here at our own institution by our emerging scholars. We get to see what the next generation of researchers are working on, and the aims they want to achieve. It is truly inspiring and makes you want to clap and whistle, and that&#8217;s a response from a cynical someone like me. You could do worse than have your faith in our future restored in an afternoon with your colleagues!</p>
<p>What you may not see as a spectator is the prep that goes on before the speakers even show up at the John Scott Meeting House Chamber for their turns on the stage!</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a long trail of activity before the finals sessions that I got to watch recently. Schools and departments have heats and their own series of finals. There&#8217;s heaps of presentation skill sessions and specific 3MT training opportunities provided by the RED team, with Dan Bendrups at the helm this year. And that doesn&#8217;t even include all the hours that an individual has spent practicing their talk in front of friends, family, and mirrors!</p>
<p>So, you don&#8217;t just put your hand up and end up getting anxious about everything on your own &#8211; you can get anxious with other people! Seriously, though, working through your presentation and what your slide will be, mapping out your gestures and where your voice needs to be pitched &#8211; all these elements are part of pulling together a brilliant research narrative that will stand you in good stead far beyond the 3MT. Public speaking is one of the phobias that persist for many professionals &#8211; academic or not &#8211; and finding ways to manage that fear is one of the keys to future research success. If you can effectively communicate your intellectual passions and project outcomes, you&#8217;ll be ahead of the pack. I manage my fear of public speaking by <a href="https://theresearchwhisperer.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/audience/">thinking of the audience</a>. Learning while you participate in 3MT equips you with strong presentation strategies that you can try out to see which works best for your personality and style.</p>
<p>In addition, there is direct scholarly value in doing the 3MT. History PhD researcher Anthony Condon participated in the 2016 3MT and wrote last year about what he got out of doing it. Anthony, who was only in his first year of his PhD when he stepped up, encouraged his peers to get in early with doing the 3MT: </p>
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Through the process of writing my first presentation for the school level 3MT heats, I got an idea of what was at the crux of my thesis. I started to understand what it was I was trying to say. It also made me look at my methodology, something I hadn’t really paid much attention to so far, and it was through this that the central idea of my thesis revealed itself to me. (<a href="http://redwritinghood.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/2016/08/what-ive-gotten-out-of-3mt-anthony.html">RED Alert post &#8211; Anthony Condon</a>)</p></blockquote>
<p>So, for spectators and presenters alike, the 3MT competition is a constructive, unifying event that is good for reminding us why we are here at the university &#8211; to make a difference in this world and the communities we engage with through research. It&#8217;s also about getting together and celebrating the new scholars in our midst.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be there for the La Trobe 3MT grand final &#8211; are you coming along, too?</p>
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<td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #666666"><b>ASSC College finalists: </b>(L to R) Anne Brouwer, Fatima Kanji, Perla Guarneros Sanchez, Hadeel Abdelhameed, Sidrah McCarthy, and Chi Kwan Ng.</span></td>
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<p>It’s 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) Championship time!</p>
<p>First, I wish much luck to <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/la-trobe-3mt-championship-tickets-26939065470">those competing for the chance to represent La Trobe</a> at the Asia-Pacific finals at the end of September. Show the country what Eagles do to sandstone buildings!</p>
<p>I wanted to take a moment to reflect on my experience of competing in the 3MT this year.</p>
<p>I’m a first year PhD researcher in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HuSS). As I&#8217;m an unconfirmed candidate for the moment, I was ineligible to proceed to the University Championship (even if I had made it through in the College finals).</p>
<p>I’m sure many new PhD researchers out there think of 3MT as something to save for their final year, when they have a clue about what they are doing. But that’s precisely why I&#8217;d say you should do it earlier!</p>
<p>I did it for several reasons. I have a bit of the natural <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum">P.T. Barnum</a> in me (I’m one of those weirdos who likes being in front of a crowd). I thought it would get me out of my office and meeting some other people around campus, which it has absolutely done. Mainly, however, I did it because a few people said to me that it’s a good way to narrow down what your thesis is actually about – and I needed this! Six weeks into my thesis turned into six months, and I realised I had less and less of a clue about what I was doing.<br />
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<p>Through the process of writing my first presentation for the school level 3MT heats, I got an idea of what was at the crux of my thesis. I started to understand what it was I was trying to say. It also made me look at my methodology, something I hadn’t really paid much attention to so far, and it was through this that the central idea of my thesis revealed itself to me.</p>
<p>I’m writing about cricket history, but what I really want to examine is the way we go about understanding who we are today. Cricket is just a vehicle for that examination.</p>
<p>The HuSS heat was won &#8211; deservedly &#8211; by Rachel Loney-Howes and Mijke Mulder. Their presentations were excellent, with Rachel&#8217;s addressing the experiences of victims of sexual assault and Mijke&#8217;s on creating a record of Muklom Tangsa (a language that&#8217;s at risk of being lost to the world). I did well enough to be one of the four competitors who went through to the ASSC College final on 17 August.</p>
<p>In preparation for the ASSC final, I sought feedback from the judges of the school heat (Adrian Jones, Hester Joyce, Trevor Hogan, and Tanya Fitzgerald), as well as the event organiser Terrie Waddell and Kelly Farrell (RED team). Massive thanks to all of you!</p>
<p>This was the really beneficial part of the process. It not only allowed me to get feedback on the specific area of the 3MT, but also on my thesis as a whole, from a broad range of knowledge bases, within and without my field.</p>
<p>This had three main benefits.</p>
<p>First, some exceptionally intelligent people gave me recommendations about things I might wish to look at: theories, ideas, content, as well as gave different perspectives on things that I was already looking at.</p>
<p>Second, through challenging some of the ideas I was having, I was forced to think through why I was having them (which meant that it either strengthened them, or I decided to discard them).</p>
<p>Finally, it gave me a perspective on how people outside of my head view my thesis topic. It’s pretty easy to view what I do as a privileged white boy cricket nut spending his PhD talking about cricket – and I’m not saying I’m not doing that – but that misses what it is that I’m truly passionate about: understanding the way people tell stories about themselves to create their sense of who they are.</p>
<p>Through the redrafting process before the ASSC College final, I moved beyond the core of what it is I&#8217;m trying to <i><b>do</b></i> and got to the core of what it is I&#8217;m trying to <i><b>say</b></i>.</p>
<p>The 3MT can be thought of as your thesis in a nutshell, but it can also be the thesis experience in a nutshell. By participating, I’ve been through the process of discovering an idea, doing my research, developing a philosophy, defending my work, and finally delivering a product that will have currency in the marketplace of ideas.</p>
<p>No piece on the 3MT would be complete without a massive shout out to the ASSC College&#8217;s Faiza Fauzi (Senior Project Officer), and all the other people I’ve missed, for all the work they’ve put into making this thing happen. It&#8217;s excellent!</p>
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<p><i><b>Anthony Condon </b>is a cricket historian at La Trobe University. He writes regularly for <a href="http://www.theroar.com.au/" style="text-decoration: none">The Roar</a> and creates weekly YouTube videos on cricket and doing his PhD, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLJwchEdvheXfBDckOdFJDQ" style="text-decoration: none">Anth&#8217;s One Minute Week</a>.</i></p>
<p><i>Anthony is currently writing a book on cricket and Australian national identity. He tweets at <a href="https://twitter.com/AnthCondon" style="text-decoration: none">@anthcondon</a>.</i></p>
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<p>A graduate researcher with a story to tell. An audience primed to hear it. Three minutes and not a second more.</p>
<p>One of the University’s premiere research events, the Three Minute Thesis® (3MT®) is on again in 2016!</p>
<p>Started by the University of Queensland in 2008, this unique competition asks graduate researchers to flex their research communication muscles and present a clear and engaging account of their thesis to a non-specialised audience.</p>
<p>No jargon. No disciplinary double-dutch. And all in under three minutes.<br />
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The College of Science, Health and Engineering (SHE) School events will start taking place across May, June and July, leading up to the SHE College Final on 9 August 2016.</p>
<p>In the College of Arts, Social Science and Commerce (ASSC), those ready to challenge themselves will compete in competitions at the College level with the ASSC Final taking place on 17 August 2016.</p>
<p>And date-save the University Championship that&#8217;s taking place on 7 September 2016!</p>
<p>During this build up, everyone will have the opportunity to participate in research communication and 3MT® workshops run by the Research Education and Development (RED) team, whether or not you are taking part in the competition. You can stay up to date with when these take place through the&nbsp;<a href="http://latrobe.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6173ac2504e24e8b7d4464970&amp;id=c2ee7d2ade" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Graduate Research Scholar newsletter</a> and the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/researchers/grs/red/workshops-seminars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RED team’s workshops page</a>.</p>
<p>One of the best things about 3MT® is the spirit in which it is run. Audiences are rooting for the competitors, colleagues are encouraging of each other and the competition makes a significant contribution to the intellectual climate at La Trobe. It’s an invaluable opportunity to get your research in front of academic staff you may not ordinarily come into contact with, not to mention a Head of School or a Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) or two!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re thinking of challenging yourself this year, and aiming to pick up a handy research-support prize along the way, you may have some questions.</p>
<p>Here are a couple of the most frequently asked:</p>
<p><b>Can I only go in 3MT</b>®<b>&nbsp;once during my candidature?&nbsp;</b><br />
No way! Many of our La Trobe Championship finalists get through on their second or third attempt. Each time, they learn a bit more about the best way to present their research to those who have no idea about it. So, make like Leonardo di Caprio, who won his Oscar on his fifth nomination. Even if you’ve had a crack before, get back in there. One year on, you’re likely to have more results and/or analysis to add meat to your 3MT® bones, and more experience in talking about your research and what gets people interested and excited about it.</p>
<p><b>Isn’t 3MT</b>®<b>&nbsp;just for the scientists?</b><br />
If you believe this then you’ve clearly never heard Edwina Kay’s (Winner, ASSC College Final 2015) compelling account of why the history of the built environment of Abbotsford convent reveals &#8211; among other things &#8211; so much about Australia’s contemporary refugee policies and practices. Today, perhaps more than ever, it’s critical that humanities, creative arts and social science researchers are able to present a water-tight case for why their research is significant and critical to solving the world’s big problems and, therefore, should be funded and supported.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/researchers/grs/red/initiatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full details about 3MT®</a> are available on the RED website, including videos of the 2013 &#8211; 2015 La Trobe Championship finals.</p>
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<p><i><b>Kelly Farrell </b>is a lecturer in the Research Education and Development (RED) team, located in La Trobe&#8217;s Graduate Research School.</i><br />
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<i>Kelly was previously at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne where she designed and delivered professional development programs and resources for academic staff and graduate researchers, and made contributions to research and policy development in higher education practice (particularly in the area of peer review of teaching, in which she maintains a keen interest).</i><br />
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<i>She also has a background in graduate researcher support and was a student advisor/advocate at the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association from 2000-2003.</i></p>
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<p><i><b>Jason Murphy </b>is Senior Research Communications Advisor at the Graduate Research School (GRS).</i><br />
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<i>Jason&#8217;s role in the GRS involves communicating to La Trobe&#8217;s research community of graduate researchers and their supervisors. He produces content and helps to manage the GRS website, social media presence, newsletters and print-based media.</i><br />
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<i>When he&#8217;s not working full time, he&#8217;s working on his own PhD project which critically examines the role of marketing in contemporary society.</i></p>
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<p>Did you know there’s a fungus in grass needed to get our milk from paddock to fridge?</p>
<p>That we should be helping robots avoid us?</p>
<p>And that looking after your voice can have a material effect on your job performance?</p>
<p>The La Trobe 2015 3MT Championship showcased the glittering mosaic of graduate research at the University as <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/researchers/grs/red/initiatives/2015-3mt-competition">eight finalists</a> vied for the title of La Trobe 3MT Champion.</p>
<p>Throwing your hat in the 3MT ring is the definition of chutzpah: it takes no small amount of audacity to squeeze years of work into a few minutes and then get up and present it –&nbsp;<i>sans</i>&nbsp;notes – to an audience and a row of judges. And did I mention it should also be engaging and void of jargon so that people who have absolutely no idea about your research can understand and relate to it?</p>
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Luckily for the audiences who have been treated to <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/researchers/grs/red/initiatives/2015-3mt-competition/3mt-winners">the feast of dynamic,&nbsp;</a><a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/researchers/grs/red/initiatives/2015-3mt-competition/3mt-winners">thought-provoking presentations</a>&nbsp;during this year’s 3MT season, chutzpah isn’t something La Trobe graduate researchers are short on: more than 50 participated in School and College competitions across the University in the lead-up to the university finals.</p>
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<p>Given the unenviable task of selecting a winner from the final eight were Professors <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/about/management/organisation/senior/senior-dvc">Jane Long</a> (Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor) and <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/about/management/organisation/senior/dvcr">Keith Nugent</a> (Deputy Vice-Chancellor [Research]), and guest judges Paul Dalgarno (Deputy Editor of <a href="https://theconversation.com/au">The Conversation</a>)&nbsp;and Dr Lauren Ayton (<a href="http://www.rrr.org.au/program/einstein-a-go-go/">Einstein A-Go-Go</a> presenter/ Bionic Eye researcher).</p>
<p>But &#8211; wait! &#8211; the audience also had a crucial part to play: Each audience member received a ballot paper and were asked to vote for their favourite presenter.</p>
<p>While the judging panel retired to deliberate and the audience and competitors mingled over afternoon tea, the RED team tallied the votes for the People’s Choice Award.</p>
<p>Then it was time to return to the John Scott Chamber for the announcement of the competition results.</p>
<p>Professor Long got Shakespeare involved as she provided an overview of the judges’ impressions, deftly applying Polonius’ ‘brevity is the soul of wit’ to the 3MT genre before pronouncing that <b>Jen Wiltshire</b> (School of Life Sciences) is the 2015 Champion <i>and</i> People’s Choice Award with her presentation ‘I like dirt’. One of the many memorable moments of Jen’s talk about communities of microbes was the challenge to the audience to imagine a world solely made up of lawyers! </p>
<p><b>Hannah MacDougall</b> (La Trobe Business School) took out Runner-Up, impressing with the presentation about her research on the wellbeing of para-athletes. Jen and Hannah receive $5000 and $2000 travel/research support grants, respectively.</p>
<p>An unexpected addition to the prize pool was a last-minute award of $1000 sponsored jointly by the DVCs that went to <b>Murray Neuzerling (</b>School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences) for his talk on ‘How to Avoid Robots’. </p>
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<p>While the healthy research-support grants you can win are a good reason for having a go at 3MT, it’s a very useful exercise for a graduate researcher from a career and development perspective. It forces you to consider the guts of what you’re doing, and why the heck it’s worthwhile.</p>
<p>As Professor Nugent pointed out in his opening remarks, everyone needs to get their ‘elevator pitch’ down. You’ll need it throughout your research career. Whether it’s the two minutes you get at the coffee urn with the leading researcher in your field, at a conference, or convincing investors they should put money into your research-based start-up, the ability to be concise, engaging and, above all, compelling about <i>why</i> the research is important, is everything.</p>
<p>Jen Wiltshire cites Uri Alon (TED talks), Brian Cox, Tim Minchin, and Sir David Attenborough as speakers she admires. And she admires them all for the same reason: &#8220;They can’t hide their enthusiasm and love of what they do.&#8221; Jen says that the hardest thing about the 3MT is &#8220;distilling some very complex research into one memorable message&#8221;, and that when she first entered two years ago, she found this more difficult to do.</p>
<p>This time, she says, &#8220;I had a story to tell, and I wanted to tell everyone.&#8221;</p>
<p>Would she recommend 3MT to her graduate research colleagues? &#8220;One-hundred times, yes!&#8221; says Jen. &#8220;The 3MT challenges you think closely about your research but, more than that, you must think about <i>who </i>you are delivering your research to, and <i>how </i>best to do this.&#8221;</p>
<p>We have an array of gutsy graduate researchers at La Trobe willing to hone their skills and get their research out there via 3MT but, as Professor Nugent acknowledged in his opening remarks, we also have a group of <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/researchers/grs/about/sgrc"> Graduate Research Coordinators</a>&nbsp;(GRCs) who are committed to developing vibrant and supportive graduate-research experiences at La Trobe.</p>
<p>GRCs across the University coordinated local 3MT competitions, encouraged graduate researchers to have a go, and supported their candidates at College competitions through to the University Championship.</p>
<p>The audience cheered on all the finalists, fully aware of what a pressured environment an institutional championship was! As well as barracking for our colleagues, we learned from and were inspired by their research. Sure, it&#8217;s a competition, but it was also a golden opportunity to leave our silos and feel a part of the broader community.</p>
<p>Everyone at RED, the Graduate Research School and, indeed, the La Trobe University community are right behind Jen as she travels to the University of Queensland on 2&nbsp;October to tell the Trans-Tasman 3MT judges why they should like dirt, too!</p>
<p><i><b>The 3MT final got a lot of people livetweeting, and the&nbsp;<a href="https://storify.com/tseenkhoo/la-trobe-university-3mt-finals-2-sept-2015">#LTU3MT Storify</a> has now been published.</b></i><br />
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</b></i> <i><b>Videos of the finalists will be uploaded shortly and linked to RED&#8217;s <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/researchers/grs/red/initiatives/2015-3mt-competition">2015 3MT page</a>.</b></i></p>
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<p><i><b>Kelly Farrell </b>is a lecturer in the Research Education and Development (RED) team, located in La Trobe&#8217;s Graduate Research School.&nbsp;</i><br />
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</i> <i>Kelly&nbsp;</i><i>was previously at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne where she designed and delivered professional development programs and resources for academic staff and graduate researchers, and made contributions to research and policy development in higher education practice (particularly in the area of peer review of teaching, in which she maintains a keen interest).&nbsp;</i><br />
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</i> <i>She also has a background in graduate researcher support and was a student advisor/advocate at the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association from 2000-2003.</i></p>
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