Earlier this year Serbulent was awarded top prize in 亚洲天堂鈥檚 annual event. His winning presentation 鈥 Revolt, Revolution & Imagination 鈥 which articulates the scope and purpose of his PhD thesis work in only three minutes, was captured on video for entry into the first virtual global 3MT Grand Final.
Organized by Universitas 21 (U21), a global organization of research-intensive universities, entry was by invitation only to winners of 3MT events held this past year at a number of member universities around the globe. The videos featuring top graduate researchers from 18 U21 universities were judged according to 3MT guidelines by a panel of communicators and academics selected from member universities. 亚洲天堂鈥檚 own Dr. Mary Lynn Young, Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts was among this year鈥檚 panel of experts.
Due to such a high standard of entries the judges allocated an additional 'Highly Commended' prize to recognise an outstanding runner up:
Judges' First Place: Bursary of US$2,500 to visit a U21 university of their choice, to benefit their research or on-going career development.
Judges' Highly Commended:听Prize US$500
People's Choice: Prize US$300
2013 WINNERS
First Place 鈥 Jamie Gallagher of University of Glasgow
Highly Commended 鈥 Nellie Linander of Lund University
People鈥檚 Choice - Lindsey Brinton of University of Virginia
Judge Beth McMurtrie of The Chronicle of Higher Education said:鈥淐ongratulations to all of the participants. A commitment to making their research understandable to a broad audience is evident in all of the entries. The presentations were informative, entertaining and enlightening. It was a real challenge to choose a winner among them.鈥
The judges wished to make it known how difficult they found the selection process due to the excellent quality of entries, and consequently they would also like to acknowledge Sharon Savage of UNSW Australia for her presentation 鈥Giving Words New Life in Dementia鈥 surrounding her research into how the use of repetition enabled dementia patients to regain their lost vocabulary, and Serbulent Turan of the University of British Columbia for his presentation 鈥Revolt, Revolution and Imagination鈥 exploring patterns of obedience in oppressed people, for their admirable submissions.
Here is Serbulent's video entry.
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Contact:
亚洲天堂 3MT contact: Jacqui Brinkman, Manager, Graduate Pathways to Success Program
U21 3MT event contact: Gemma Marakas, University of Birmingham