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<\/a><\/p>\nTuwe (right) is enrolled in the Faculty of Culture and Society and supervised by Associate Professor\u00a0Camille Nakhid, Dr Carol Neill and Professor Ian Shirley. He gave a compelling presentation on the employment experiences of African communities in New Zealand. Tuwe impressed the judges with his magnetic stage presence, and the innovativeness of his storytelling methodology. Tuwe will represent AUT at the Trans-Tasman 3MT Doctoral Competition on 2 October at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Samuel (left) is enrolled in his Masters within the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences under the supervision of Dr Travis McMaster and Professor John Cronin. He presented on the reliability and discriminative ability of badminton specific change of direction testing. The judges praised his ability to communicate complex scientific content in a clear and easily understandable way. Samuel will compete for AUT at the Masters 3MT Inter-University Challenge at the University of Auckland on 10 September.<\/p>\n
Well done also to the runners up for competitions. Caroline Stretton came second in the doctoral competition for her talk “Finding the powerful why – walking for wellbeing after stroke.” Toiroa Williams was the runner-up in the Masters competition (and also won the overall People’s Choice award) for his presentation “\u014cp\u014dtiki su-PEER-heroes.”<\/p>\n
Thank you to the other 3MT finalists who also gave excellent talks on the day: Masters students Khine Thida, Amy Tielu and Blair Speakman, and doctoral candidates Thushini Jayawardena, Christine Clark, Shabnam Jalili-Moghaddam, and Lydia Harrell.<\/p>\n