University of York 3MT 2014

Ten research students had just three minutes each to communicate the impact of their research to an audience made up of school pupils, teachers, members of the general public and industry.

• 3MT programme and finalist summaries 2014 (PDF , 415kb)‌

Results

1st prize: Bob Phillips (Health Sciences), "Predicting life: threatening infections in children with cancer"

2nd prize: Catherine Liang (Languages and Linguistics), "What does the cow say? and what can it do for us?"

3rd prize: Danielle Jowett (Chemistry), "Solar power: energy of the future"

Bob went on to compete at the UK 3MT semi-final 2014.

Presentations

Sindhu Krishna

Department of Chemistry

"Golden power: energy from bacteria!!!"

Ruth Mace

Department of Education

"Fun, phonics and Shakespeare"

Danielle Jowett

Department of Chemistry

"Solar Power: energy of the future"

Aderiana Mbandi

Department of Environment

"An air of injustice?"

Catherine Laing

Department of Language and Linguistics

"'What does the cow say?' And what can it do for us?"

Bob Phillips

Department of Health Sciences

"Predicting life: threatening infections in children with cancer"

Adelle Hay

Department of Physics

"Why is a nuclear reactor like a writing desk?"

Kate Stephenson

Department of History

"Blazers and gymslips: school uniform past, present and future"

Amir Dehsarvi

Department of Electronics

"Scary maths and photos: a new way to diagnose brain diseases?"

Rasha Salah El-Din

Department of Computer Science

"The human factors in mobile phishing"