{"id":82,"date":"2026-05-05T10:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/?p=82"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:37:33","slug":"cesr-pgrs-smash-three-minute-thesis-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/cesr-pgrs-smash-three-minute-thesis-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"CESR PGRs smash Three Minute Thesis competition!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sayda Mehrabin Shejuti<\/strong><\/a>, Sadie Barnes<\/strong><\/a> and Amin Reza Omranian<\/strong><\/a> all took part in the 3MT (three minute thesis) competition, where candidates are challenged to engagingly sum up their PhD into a three-minute talk accompanied by a single slide. The CESR candidates had great success!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amin <\/strong><\/a>won the people’s choice award and Sadie<\/strong><\/a> snagged runner up, only beaten by University of the West of England<\/strong><\/a> winner Shejuti<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a quick run through of their research topics and wonderful slides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winner – Shejuti<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Shejuti is a PhD researcher with particular interest in the journey of microplastics and plastics in the environment. And this isn\u2019t the first successful talk Shejuti delivered in April \u2013 she also captured the attention of Welsh policy makers when presenting at the Environment Platform Wales<\/strong><\/a> seminars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the slide below she used to capture the audience\u2019s attention at the 3MT competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winning at UWE is just the beginning for Shejuti, she now heads to the National 3MT semi-finals \u2013 good luck Shejuti!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Runner-up – Sadie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sadie is getting towards the end of her PhD research at UWE, having collected her last lot of data on youth participation in the climate crisis at the end of March. Her focus has been on exploring how intergenerational dialogue on climate policy in South Wales can be designed to meaningfully include a diverse range of young people. Check out her 3MT slide below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good luck with your data analysis and thesis write up Sadie!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People’s Choice Award – Amin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Amin’s PhD investigates factors influencing travel behaviour and strategies to encourage the use of Metro systems. Ultimately he aims to propose evidence-based interventions that foster greater Metro use, reduce car dependency, and enhance sustainable urban mobility. His slide poses a question with the beautiful Welsh countryside (a nod to his Welsh government funding) as a backdrop – see below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Congratulations again to all three amazing researchers!<\/em><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Short talks from three post-graduate researchers from the Centre for Environment, Society and Resilience were recognised in a regional competition on 30th April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":87,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-skills","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/environment-society-and-resilience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}