Four of UNE Business School’s best and brightest postgraduate students laid out their best 3 minute presentations for this year’s 3 Minutes Thesis (3MT) Competition.

The challenge of this annual event is for postgraduate students to deliver a clear and concise outline of a key argument or aspect of their research. The audience to Wednesday’s afternoon event heard a great representation of the broad scope of work being done by our postgraduate students, as well as hearing of key research methodologies being employed.

Our students were:

• Martin Laverty (supervisors: Alison Sheridan, Theresa Smith-Ruig, Martin Hovey), speaking on his research on two-tiered boards & ways for members to contribute to organisational outcomes.
• Subashini Perera (supervisors: Mahinda Siriwardana and Stuart Mounter), speaking on trade delays & their cost to the economy, with considerations of geography & value/time analysis.
• Kara Tighe (supervisors: Oscar Cacho, Stuart Mounter, Rene Villano), speaking about the connection between animal welfare & the impacts on consumption, looking at trends of media exposure & sales.
  
• Wasanthi Thenuwara (supervisors: Nam Hoang and Mahinda Siriwardana), who has examined the impact of the baby boomer generation on asset markets with innovative methodology.

All delivered excellent presentations in 3 minutes or less, with our panel of judges finally selecting Kara Tighe’s “Animal Welfare Meats Consumers” as the winner.

As every year, this is a fantastic opportunity for our postgraduate students to showcase their hard work and mix with other researchers across not only University of New England, but further along the line of competition, excellence researchers across the country.

We congratulate all our competitors and of course special congratulations to Kara, who will go on to represent UNE Business School at the university-wide event for 3 Minute Thesis (‪#‎3MT‬) at Lewis Lecture Theatre on September 14, 2016.

Congratulations to Kara Tighe who won the UNE Business School 3 Minute Thesis event on Wednesday 17th August! Kara is seen here with Head of School, Professor Alison Sheridan after her win was announced.