3MT Competition - Winners & Finalists 2015

Winner

Our 2015 competition winner was Davide Zilli from Electronics and Computer Science with his talk 'Monitoring endangered wildlife with Smartphones'.

Davide's research is focused on looking for a critically endangered insect - the New Forest Cicada- using a smartphone app that he developed to track the Cicada's high-pitched call. In future the app has great potential to be extended to other species such as bats and birds or even elephants and rhinos. @NewForestCicada @DavideZilli

Runner-up

Berit Plumhoff from Engineering Sciences was Runner-up with her talk 'You are what your Mother Eats'.

People's Choice Award

Alan Morris, Medicine, won the 'People's Choice' award for his talk 'Beating Alzheimer's disease: It's all about 'sewer tunnels!'

Other Finalists

• Christopher Hughes, Business, Law and Art 
'The regulatory dilemma'
• Hannah Liversedge, Health Sciences 
 'Skin integrity in premature neonates'
• Miyuki Takino, Humanities
 'English as a lingua franca: Learning from Japanese users of English in business contexts'
• James Fuller, Natural and Environmental Sciences,'Can we vaccinate against Alzheimer's disease?'    
• Philippa Howard, Social and Human Sciences 
'Using eye tracking to examine language processing in adults with autism spectrum disorder'  

View videos of all the finalists 

Guest Speaker

While the judges were deliberating, Professor Tim Leighton gave an entertaining talk about 'The Acoustic Bubble'.