2025 UniSA 3MT Grand Final
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Thursday 4 September 2025, 6pm - 7.30pm, ACST
Online & Allan Scott Auditorium, Hawke Building,
UniSA City West Campus, 55 North Terrace Adelaide
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04 September 2025
2025 unisa three minute thesis (3MT®) grand final
1 SLIDE. 3 MINUTES. BIG IDEAS.
Imagine a typical PhD thesis - 80,000 words long and taking over nine hours to read.
University of South Australia's PhD candidates are rising to the challenge - presenting their research using just one slide and in three minutes - to showcase ideas with the potential for a lifetime of impact.
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition highlights bold, creative research from some of UniSA’s brightest minds. This year’s finalists are rethinking how we learn, work, and live - exploring ways to support hybrid workplaces, enhance accessibility for students with dyslexia, inclusive sanitation to support equitable development, and new approaches to teaching and learning.
From tackling health issues like asthma and supporting children’s physical and social wellbeing to advancing space imaging technology, these researchers are addressing both the everyday and the extraordinary.
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition is a global celebration of research, held in over 900 universities across 85+ countries. Join us in-person or stream online to explore the finalists' innovative ideas and vote for the People’s Choice winner.
UniSA's finalists and their presentation titles are listed below.
The 2025 UniSA 3MT Grand Final is presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the Office for the Dean of Graduate Studies, supported by UniSA Academic Units.
Images: Top: Winner, Sarah McMullen-Roach, 2024 UniSA 3MT Grand Final, Top Left 2024 Finalists, Bottom Left: 2024 People's Choice's Winner, Edmund Hypolite.
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2025 finalists and presentations
Anita Kral, Fungi: Not Such a ‘Fun Guy’ in the Airways, UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences
Cheryl Chan, Seeing More from Space: Designing Compact Infrared Telescopes with Freeform Optics, UniSA STEM
Darren Taljaard, Show Me What You Mean: Better Reading Materials for Students with Dyslexia, UniSA Creative
Dinethi Jayarathna, Seen, Heard, Connected: Bursting the Hybrid Work Bubble, UniSA Justice & Society
Emily Eglitis, It’s a Cruel Summer: Hidden Summertime Health Risks for Kids, UniSA Allied Health & Human Performance
Louise King, What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do, UniSA Education Futures
Namrata Nair, Making Neighbourhoods Safer Through Inclusive Sanitation, UniSA Business
Presented by
The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and
THE OFFICE FOR THE DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic research communication competition
developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia.
While the views presented by speakers within The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre public program are their own and are not necessarily those of either the University of South Australia, or The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, they are presented in the interest of open debate and discussion in the community and reflect our themes of: Strengthening our Democracy - Valuing our Diversity - Building our Future. The Hawke Centre reserves the right to change their program at any time without notice.
