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USC represented at national thesis competition
The University of the Sunshine Coast has, for the first time ever, been represented at the annual Australia and New Zealand Three Minute Thesis Competition.
PhD student Steven Boyd was one of 42 contestants who gave compelling three-minute presentations on their theses at the University of Western Australia last week (29 September).
Mr Boyd’s presentation examined the use of fun games as teaching tools and how computer games could be designed to help boost property investment education.
He used parallels from play with his five-year-old son to summarise years of his PhD research into a 180-second speech.
While he didn’t win, Mr Boyd said he appreciated the opportunity to represent USC in such a hotly-contested event.
“Besides networking and sharing ideas with the region’s greatest early researchers, I found the event a wonderful opportunity to take my research, which is founded in business, into the theatrical realm,” he said.
“Effectively the competition makes higher degree by research students refine and align their research to a non-specialist audience, which is ultimately judged as a three-minute performance.”
Mr Boyd was chosen to compete in the Australasian event after winning USC’s annual Three Minute Thesis competition in July.
— Michelle Widdicombe