Getting the word out about research
Academic research projects offer innovative solutions for important challenges. Unfortunately, this work is often carried out behind the scenes in labs and classrooms, and isn’t shared with the general public.
Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) aims to bring scholarship into the spotlight with a new competition designed to promote excellence in research communications.
Modelled on the Three Minute Thesis, the SSHRC competition, known as Research for a Better Life: The Storytellers, encourages post-secondary students to show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research improves our lives, our world and our future.
Concordia students are invited to submit three-minute pitches describing an innovative, SSHRC-funded research project. Using text, video, audio or infographic tools, students are encouraged to make their pitches creative, compelling and clear.
The top 25 submissions will receive a prize worth $3,000: The chance to attend a communications workshop at Congress 2013 in Victoria, B.C. There, winners will deliver their pitches in front of a live audience. A jury will then choose five finalists, who will be invited to deliver featured presentations at this year’s World Social Science Forum in Montreal.
SSHRC is accepting Research for a Better Life: The Storytellers submissions from February 16 through March 1.
Further information is available on the Research for a Better Life web page.
Concordia is holding its Three Minute Thesis event on April 12, 2013.
Related links:
• Research for a Better Life web page (including submission details)
• SSHRC awards search engine
• Three Minute Thesis at Concordia