Sussex PhD community invited to participate in the contest “Write your PhD story in 100 words”

A group of PhD students from SPRU are organizing a contest called "Write your PhD story in 100 words", in which all the PhD community from Sussex will be invited to participate and write their PhD story in a non-academic way.  This competition is open for academics, lecturers, professors, research fellows and current PhD students. An award ceremony will …

Competition time: Tweet Your Thesis to win a £50 Amazon voucher

From 26-28 June, we’ll be taking over campus to hold our very first Festival of Doctoral Research, a three-day celebration of our doctoral researchers. We’ve planned an exciting line-up of events, and we want everyone to have a chance to participate. That's why we're holding a competition that all doctoral researchers can enter - even those away …

7 doctoral researchers to brave the stage in Sussex’s Three Minute Thesis competition

On Wednesday 27th June, a group of courageous doctoral researchers will take to the stage to compete in our Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. They’ll be condensing their 80,000-word thesis into engaging, three-minute presentations, performed in front of a live audience and judging panel. 3MT is a national competition, and the rules are strict. Armed with only a single, …

An 80,000 word thesis would take 9 hours to present. Your time limit… 3 minutes

The Doctoral School are delighted to announce that the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition will be returning to Sussex in 2018. The competition, which ran at Sussex for the first time in 2016, challenges doctoral researchers to describe their research within just 3 minutes to a general audience. We are now accepting expressions of interest …