Tweet your Thesis/ Tweet your Research
2023 Competition- Winners Announced!
As part of our Research Showcase, we challenged our PGRs to communicate their research to a public audience – in 280 characters. Our Tweet Your Thesis/Tweet Your Research competition is inspired by the #tweetyourthesis hashtag, and the British Library’s #ShareMyThesis competition.
Our Tweet Your Thesis competition 2023 ran from 9am on 5 June until 5pm on 9 June.
The prizes for this years competition are as follows:
- 1st prize £100 voucher
- 2nd prize £75 voucher
- 3rd prize £50 voucher
Rules
- You must be a University of Exeter postgraduate researcher (PGR).
- To enter, you must tweet your thesis between 9am on 5th June and 5pm on 9th June.
- You are limited to one 280 character tweet.
- Links to extra text explaining your research is not allowed (no Twitter threads - it has to be one tweet!)
- You can include images in your tweet, but not those that contain text.
- Gifs and emojis can also be used!
- If you are a PGR, you must use the #tweetyourthesis and tag @ExeterDoctoral. Failure to add both in your tweet will be automatic disqualification from the competition.
Please note your tweets will be displayed in a feed on the Doctoral College website, and on screen as part of our Three Minute Thesis competition, PGR Inductions and other Doctoral College events.
Judging
Tweets will be judged according to:
- Clarity of tweet
- Succinctness of tweet
- Engagement/Impact
- Accessibility to a layman’s audience
The panel will also consider the impact and inventiveness of your use of your 280 characters.
The judges for the 2023 Tweet Your Thesis competition are:
- Dr Chris Wood, Head of Researcher Development and Research Culture, Doctoral College, Researcher Development and Research Culture
- Prof. Steve West, Department Director of Postgraduate Research, Complex Living Institute, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
- Kelly Louise Preece, Head of Academic Development and Skills/Manager: Education Development and Enhancement, Teaching Quality Assurance & Enhancement
The winners for the 2023 competition are:
| 1st Place | Amy Wilson |
| 2nd Place (joint winners) | Helena Hastie |
| April Hayes | |
| 3rd Place (joint winners) | Jonathon Growcott |
| Fadhia Adliah |
You can see all this year's entries on our #tweetyourthesis sway
Our winners for 2022 were:
| 1st Place | Jess Haines |
| 2nd Place | Helena Hastie |
| 3rd Place (joint winners) | Diana Paulding |
| Charlotte Reburn | |
| Jo Sutherst |
You can see all this year's entries on our #tweetyourthesis sway
We awarded prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in our #tweetyourthesis competition 2021 as follows:
- 1st Place- Suzan Kors
- 2nd Place- Rebekah White
- 3rd Place- Gemma Sutton
It was very close at the top and we have a few of the highly commended tweets picked out by the judges:
- Highly commended- Crystal Hollis
- Highly commended- Fidelia Law
- Highly commended- Sarah Heaney
We awarded prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in our #tweetyourthesis competition 2020 as follows:
- 1st place- Ari Cooper-Davis
- 2nd place- Kate Sansum
- 3rd place- Maria Watson
It was very close at the top and we have a couple of highly commended tweets picked out by the judges:
We awarded prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in our #tweetyourthesis competition 2019 as follows:
- 1st place – Sarah Nelms (CLES)
- 2nd place – Hannah Meinertzhagen (CLES)
- 3rd place – Ghee Bowman (HUMS)
We awarded prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in our #tweetyourthesis 2018 competition as follows:
- 1st place – Owen Tomlinson (CLES)
- 2nd place – Imogene Dudley (HUMs)
- 3rd place – Manami Goto (SSIS)
You can view all of the entries from 2018 here.