Tissue Repair Postgraduate Training Programme

Tissue Repair student Phoebe Kirkwood Runner Up at Universitas 21 3MT® 2018 competition

Universitas 21 3MT® judges select Phoebe Kirkwood as Runner Up for talk on scarless wound healing.

Tissue Repair student Phoebe Kirkwood with her supervisors and PhD programme team
Phoebe Kirkwood (middle) with PhD supervisors Prof Saunders and Dr Gibson, and Tissue Repair Director Prof Becker and Manager Dr Hoeve

Congratulations to final year Tissue Repair student Phoebe Kirkwood on being selected Runner Up of the international Universitas 21 Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT®). Phoebe represented the University of Edinburgh in a competition featuring talks by research students from around the world. Phoebe studies scarless wound healing in the endometrium in the lab of Prof Philippa Saunders at the MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Deanery of Clinical Sciences.

You can watch the talk of Phoebe and the other winners on the link below:

Videos of the Universitas 21 3MT® winners 2018

Phoebe follows in the footsteps of fellow University of Edinburgh researcher Euan Doidge who was selected Winner of the Highly Commended award in the 2017 U21 3MT® final.

The Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT®), first developed by the University of Queensland in 2008, challenges research students to communicate the significance of their projects to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes.

I am hugely proud of Phoebe and all she has achieved in her PhD. The 3MT competition has provided her with a platform to hone her already excellent communication skills and to deliver on her commitment to public engagement and I am delighted that her work on scarless tissue repair has excited such a wide audience

Prof Philippa SaundersDirector Postgraduate Research, College for Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Universitas 21 is the leading global network of research-intensive universities, working together to foster global citizenship and institutional innovation through research-inspired teaching and learning, student mobility, connecting our students and staff, and wider advocacy for internationalisation. The U21 3MT competition pits the leading presenters from each U21 member university against one another. Each participating member will hold their own internal 3MT competition to select a local winner who will then be put forward (via video submission) for the U21 final, to be judged by an international panel consisting of industry and academic professionals.

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