Celebrating our community

Our first ever Postgraduate Celebration Week took place between 3 and 7 June, offering a fitting celebration of our postgraduate research community, their unique achievements and the incredible range of research they are involved in across the university.

Over 300 postgraduate research students and others came together across the week, taking the chance to meet one another, socialise in a range of informal settings, and share their research as well as hearing from others.

Throughout the week there were chances to get involved in social activities from boardgames to bouldering, as well as a series of Careers Cafés, a Postgraduate Research Symposium and two competitions: our always popular Images of Research; and the Cardiff heat of the national Three Minute Thesis (3MT®).

It was fantastic to see such a range of research being presented in different ways – both visual and oral – and the standard of presentations was excellent. The winners are detailed below.

Images of Research

1st prize: Catherine Sheehan, School of Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd prize: Jessica Pritchard, School of Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

3rd prize: Meirion Hills, School of Engineering

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

People’s Choice Award: Helena Faustino Vieira, School of Physics and Astronomy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®)

1st prize: Georgia Wren, School of Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd prize: Catherine Sheehan, School of Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3rd prize: Chiara Franceschi, School of Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

People’s Choice Award: Sofia Hryniv, School of Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All entries will be available to view on Learning Central soon.

We’d like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who took part in the week, whether you presented your research or attended an activity. We hope you enjoyed the week as much as we did, and that you found it valuable. We look forward to celebrating our amazing community more in the future.