{"id":2966,"date":"2013-05-24T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T13:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2015-10-28T17:19:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T21:19:59","slug":"three-minutes-to-explain-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/three-minutes-to-explain-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Three minutes to explain yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you explain your research activities or thesis in 3 minutes to someone outside your field?\u00a0 Jinna Kim in <em>University Affairs<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityaffairs.ca\/your-research-explained-in-three-minutes-flat.aspx\">reports<\/a> that many universities are holding prize-winning competitions that require graduate student participants to communicate their work to judges and an audience in just 3 minutes.\u00a0 The idea is to teach students how to promote themselves and their research.<\/p>\n<p>McGill University has an annual event called, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/gps\/news-events\/events\/3-minutes-change-world\">3 Minutes to Change the World<\/a>\u201d that provides a non-competitive opportunity for graduate students to present their research to a general audience.\u00a0 Below is an example of a presentation from this event:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Science without Borders: Changing the Medium of Scientific Communication\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8y1oBMSZeWU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you explain your research activities or thesis in 3 minutes to someone outside your field?\u00a0 Jinna Kim in University Affairs reports that many universities are holding prize-winning competitions that require graduate student participants to communicate their work to judges &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/three-minutes-to-explain-yourself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[194,104,15],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-communication","tag-scientific-research","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}