Postgraduate Summer Research Showcase


Short Film Awards

Videos are an excellent and powerful way of engaging an audience with the story of your research.

This year we are excited to announce that we will be featuring a video exhibition as part of the Showcase, giving postgraduates a unique opportunity to present their research in diverse and engaging ways.

Increasingly, videos are being used for academic purposes, and can be used to promote your work on social media such as blogs, Academia.edu, etc. Making your own video is thus something that can help you ‘stand out from the crowd’. The short film competition as part of the Showcase is designed to help familiarise you with the process of designing and producing a video.

Digital Stories

We invite postgraduate researchers to submit short videos of up to three minutes based on the story of their research. The story could be anything from how your research has changed or influenced you, your pathway and how you came to study your current area, or even where you see your research going in the future. It is different to an academic video presentation of your research. You need to consider the narrative of your research journey rather than describing what it is that you study for the whole video.

The 'story of my research' videos are an excellent and rare opportunity for researchers to reflect critically on their own personal stance, and how their journey bears on the outcome of their research overall. You will additionally gain useful skills in communications and media, exploring how to present research to a non-academic audience.

Please note that it is not a requirement that your submitted short film be of high visual quality, videos filmed on a mobile phone are just fine. What is important is your overall research story.

Please explore the links on the left for more information.

Initial films can even be shot with a mobile phone. 12 short-listed films will then get a unique opportunity to recreate their films in high quality.

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