UWA 3 Minute Thesis Presentation & Second Life 2014

Image Used by Jay Jay for the Presentation (created with the help of quadrapop Lane & Dianne Elton)

UWA Second Life founder, Jay Jay Jegathesan is also a PhD student, completing a part time PhD on the topic of community and collaboration through virtual worlds.

The following video is taken from the semi-final round of the 2014 3-Minute Thesis competition where PhD students are asked to speak for 3 minutes on their PhD research using no technology or props aside from a single image.


JAY JAY JEGATHESAN - UWA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION / PHYSICS 

Some other presentations as shown below by David Gozzard, Blake Segler & Carl Blair, provide a flavour of some of the other presentations for the challenge.


 
BLAKE SEGLER - UWA SCHOOL OF PHYSICS


 
CARL BLAIR - UWA SCHOOL OF PHYSICS 


DAVID GOZZARD - UWA SCHOOL OF PHYSICS 

All these presentations led to successes in various ways. David & Blake made the final with David winning 2nd overall. Carl Blair gave a similar talk the next day at a postgraduate Physics conference and was adjudged best talk. Jay Jay was invited to give an expanded presentation by Arts Access Victoria at a Digital Accessibility Forum in Melbourne in December 2014.

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