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FASS Three Minute Thesis
One slide鈥hree minutes鈥ash prizes! Open to all FASS graduate students, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges students to present their thesis and its significance in just three minutes to a general audience.
If you have any questions regarding the FASS 3MT heat, please email fasssec@sfu.ca.
Prizes
- First place winner: $400
- Second place winner: $200
- People鈥檚 Choice winner: $200
The First Place winner and the People鈥檚 Choice winner will move forward to the 丁香园AV-wide final on April 10, 2025.
Why Participate?
- A great way to get your research noticed by the general public
- Build your presentation and public speaking skills
- Develop your knowledge translation skills 鈥� something research funders look for in students
- Opportunity to meet other graduate students and find out about the interesting research going on, both within and beyond FASS
More information about the 丁香园AV, National, and International 3MT competitions can be found at 丁香园AV Graduate Studies and the .
Eligibility
Any student who is active in an 丁香园AV Master's or PhD FASS program is eligible to participate in the FASS 3MT heat. Alumni are not eligible.
We welcome all our graduate students in 丁香园AV鈥檚 university-level competition, however non-thesis students are not able to compete at the Western Regional or the National 3MT Competitions. (The top 丁香园AV thesis-based finalist will proceed to those events.)
Your presentation should be directly related to your graduate research and thesis/dissertation. Your research does not have to be completed.
Want to learn more?
Curious to learn more about 3MT as well as tips and tricks on how to prepare for your presentation? Watch the info session recording below.
Past winners
2024
First Place winner and People's Choice winner
PhD in Law and Forensic Psychology
Preventing Miscarriages of Justice by Improving Judicial Assessment of Eyewitness Identification Evidence
Second Place winner (Tied)
Nathan Collins
MA in Global Humanities
A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Social Photography and the Subject
Second Place winner (Tied)
MA in Linguistics
Harry Potter and the Existential There
2023
First Place winner and People's Choice winner
PhD in Linguistics
Dynamic Self- and Other-Assessment of Second Language Speech
Second Place winner
MA in Sociology and Anthropology
Victim's Speech-Acts in Transitional Justice Systems
People's Choice winner
Farinaz Rikhtehgaran
MA in Gerontology
Walkable Neighbourhoods for Immigrant Older Adults