Communicate your research: the 3MT in LMP
LMP 3MT training sessions and schedule is now available!
Start preparing for the LMP 3MT 2024-2025! Training and coaching sessions are available in November and December with submissions due early January.
If you need any help or want to access recordings of training sessions, contact lmp.communications@utoronto.ca.
We are also recruiting judges! If you are staff, faculty, alumni or postdocs and would like to help with judging, please complete our online form.
The 3MT (or 3-Minute Thesis) is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland, Australia in 2008.
It is you, your research project, one slide and 3 minutes.
You are communicating to a non-scientific audience about why you’re doing your research and what you hope to achieve with it.
You are not judged on your research or the science, you are judged on how you communicate it. You can take part even if you have zero research results yet!
See our resources page for competitors, coaches and judges
The LMP competition
The University of Toronto competition is run every Spring by the Centre for Graduate Professional Development for doctoral and master’s students.
In LMP, we will run our own departmental competition in December – February, open to all LMP students and trainees in any program.
Our aim is to provide a fun and interesting way for any of our learners to learn about communicating their science.
Why you should do it
This should be called ‘why shouldn’t you do it?’!
It is a great opportunity for you to:
- develop your communication skills
- learn how to communicate your research to a lay audience
- learn more about the other research happening in LMP
- have fun
- be challenged
- if you’re successful, you’ll get great exposure as a researcher!
- You can also win a cash prize of $300 (winner) or $150 (People's Choice).
The LMP 3MT timeline 2024-2025
Recordings of all sessions will be available by emailing Jenni Bozec at lmp.communications@utoronto.ca.
Any LMP learner in any program is welcome to attend any training sessions with no pressure to compete.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 2 - 3 pm: Dr. Laurent Bozec, expert in science communication and 3MT, will hold a zoom session explaining what the 3MT is and how to be successful (and therefore how you can communicate your science to a lay audience).
Wednesday, November 27, 2024, 2 - 3:30 pm: Dr. Laurent Bozec will hold a virtual drop-in coaching session where you can ask questions and receive feedback on your LMP 3MT ideas and progress.
Register for coaching session #1 - Nov 27
Friday, December 6, 2024, 2 - 3:30 pm: Dr. Laurent Bozec will hold a virtual drop-in coaching session where you can ask questions and receive feedback on your LMP 3MT ideas and progress.
Register for coaching session #2 - Dec 6
Thursday, December 12, 2024, 12 - 1 pm: The Centre for Graduate Professional Development will hold a virtual information session for anyone wanting to enter the main U of T 3MT competition. Register for the CGPD session.
November 2024 - February 2025: The Peer Communications Team will provide coaching services to those who wanted it to help them perfect their presentation.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Make a recording of your presentation (preferably via a zoom recording or similar platform) and submit your entry by 11:59 pm on Monday, January 13, 2025.
Submit your entry to the LMP 3MT 2024-2025 competition!
January: Judges will review the videos and chose finalists, depending on the number of entries received.
Thursday, February 6, 2025, 5 - 6 pm: The in-person finals for LMP 3MT.
January/February, 2025: Entries close for the U of T competition. MHSc, MSc and PhD students are eligible to enter the university-wide competition.
April 17, 2025: the LMP 3MT winner presents at the LMP Research Day.
Find out how to be successful in the 3MT by accessing our resources page.
