3MT® Finalists 2020

Well done to our six finalists who performed their 3MT® presentation online on Wednesday 16 September during Connections Week.

Congratulations go to Lucy Thomas from the University of Birmingham on her award winning performance titled 'Gravity is Pathetic! Shedding Light on Gravity with Models of Spinning Black Hole Mergers', making her the Judges Choice Winner.

After a close contest, Vinaya Gunasri previously known as Vinaya Srirangam Nadhamuni, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary, University of London who scooped the People's Choice prize with her slick performance on 'The war on cancer: understanding the immune system's strategies for fighting bowel cancer'.

The six performances are available to watch below:
Claire Carswell, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast
Using the arts to transform the experience of haemodialysis


Daniel Koomson, College of Life and Natural Sciences, University of Derby
Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity of Rural Coastal Fishing Communities to Climate and Environmental Change


Sogol Salamipour, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London
How can we better identify women at risk of premature birth
Vinaya Srirangam NadhamuniBarts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary, University of London
The war on cancer: understanding the immune system's strategies for fighting bowel cancer

Lucy Thomas, Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham
Gravity is Pathetic! Shedding Light on Gravity with Models of Spinning Black Hole Mergers
Nekisa Zakeri, Medical Sciences, University College London
The New Cells on the Block: removing the brakes for liver cancer therapy