Three Minute Thesis Final

Welcome

Professor Drew Dawson

• Mr Kelvin Trimper – University Fellow, and General Manager, Sustainable Initiatives, Lendlease

Communities

• Professor Andrew Parfitt – Pro Vice Chancellor, ITEE

• Professor Kerin O’Dea – Director, Sansom Institute, Division of Health Sciences

• Ms Clare Peddie – Science Journalist with The Advertiser

• Mr Michael Jacobs – Journalist and Writer

Judges Names and Affiliations

1. – Communication Style : was the thesis topic and its significance communicated in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience?

2. – Comprehension : did the presentation help the audience understand the research?

3. – Engagement : did the oration make the audience want to know more?

Judging Criteria

Name Affiliation Program Thesis Title Supervisors

Diana Carolina Cicua-Navarro

School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy

Doctor of Philosophy in Social Sciences (Psychology)

Do neurocognitive deficits improve if snoring resolves?

A/Prof Kurt Lushington Dr Mark KohlerDr Cameron van den Heuvel (Adelaide Uni)

Bernhard Lobmayr

School of Commerce, CRMA Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis

DPBU, Doctor of Philosophy

The effects of regulation on innovation in high-risk medical device markets

Prof David K Round Prof Martin Shanahan

Elena Rudnik

Centre for Rural Health and Community Development (CRHCD), School of Psychology, Spencer Gulf Rural Health School

PhD Social Science (Psychology)

Blokes Brains and Behaviours – relationships between health behaviours, executive functions and health literacy of young adult men

Dr Janet BryanDr Matthew Haren

The 3 Finalists

The 1st Finalist

Name – Diana Cicua-Navarro

Affiliation – School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy

Thesis Title – Do neurocognitive deficits improve if snoring resolves?

Biography – Diana is a first year full-time student in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy. She completed a 5-year Bachelor degree in Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia (South America) in 2008. She holds a scholarship from the School of Psychology at UniSA. Her PhD is part of an ongoing project which commenced in 2005 – examining the prevalence of snoring in children between 5 and 10 years old from the general community. She finished her first data collection and has already started follow-up data collection. Diana is really interested in the neurophysical processes in the area of sleep research.

Snorin

g Behaviour

The 2nd Finalist

Name – Bernhard Lobmayr

Affiliation – UniSA, School of Commerce, CRMA Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis

Thesis Title - The effects of regulation on innovation in high-risk medical device markets

A brief Bio – Bernhard joined UniSA in 2007 with a Master in Business and Management obtained in Austria, and about 15 years experience in the medical device industry. He visited Adelaide for the first time in 2006 as part of a study abroad programme and liked it so much that he and his family of four decided to move here.

In his research he investigates how markets operate, particularly with regards to entrepreneurship, innovation and the institutional market environment. Medical device markets, especially in the high-risk area, are subject to regulation. Regulation affects the way these markets work. While regulations might be designed and introduced with perfectly comprehensible rationales some unintended consequences can compromise the primary objectives. Sometimes rules for the prevention of one market failure give way to another.

Apart from his research Bernhard enjoys spending time with his family, friends, music, long distance running and lots of other things (when there is time).

Red light if unsafe or ineffective

Green light for more development

Can we have both?

What is the trade-off?

Regulation

Innovation

The 3rd Finalist

Name – Elena Rudnik

Affiliation – Centre for Rural Health and Community Development (CRHCD), School of Psychology, Spencer Gulf Rural Health

School

Thesis Title – Blokes Brains and Behaviours – relationships between health behaviours, executive functions and health literacy of young adult men

Biography – Elena is in the third year of a PhD. She is based at Whyalla campus of UniSA, where she also works as a coordinator of Primary Health Care Research. Her research interests are varied and include Men’s Health, and Grief issues. Elena’s past employment has been in both the public and private sectors as a rehabilitation clinician, manager and researcher.

The 3rd Finalist

Finalist’s slide

The winner will go on to compete in the semi-final of the Inaugural Australian and New Zealand Three Minute Thesis competition, which will

be held on 21 September and hosted by UQ as part of UQ Centennial celebrations.

Master of Ceremonies for the event will be the award-winning science writer and broadcaster with ABC Science Online, and regular judge on

ABC TV’s The New Inventors, Bernie Hobbs.

The Inaugural Australian and New Zealand 3 Minute Thesis Competition

Three Minute Thesis Final

Thank you for attendingAssociate Professor Joanne Cys,

Acting Dean of Graduate Studies