{"id":275,"date":"2016-09-14T09:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T09:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/?p=275"},"modified":"2016-10-18T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:28:33","slug":"maddie-long-tales-from-3-minute-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/maddie-long-tales-from-3-minute-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddie Long: Tales from the 3 Minute Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PPLS PhD student Maddie Long has just been awarded the People&#8217;s Choice Award in the National 3 Minute Thesis Competition, beating 1000s of students from all around the UK with her presentation: \u2018Language and the Brain: The Skye\u2019s the Limit.\u2019 We caught up with her to chat about her research and her experiences of the 3 Minute Thesis competition.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/282731219&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Maddie tells us about her research into older language learners, and the extraordinary finding that after just one week on a language course, their attention and thinking skills show significant improvements. She also gives her top tips for anyone thinking of taking part in this year&#8217;s 3 Minute Thesis, and explains why she found it such a positive experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/files\/2016\/09\/Maddie-Long-transcript-September-2016-1.pdf\">Read the transcript<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lraTf8UPcUY\">Watch Maddie&#8217;s presentation at the University of Edinburgh 3 Minute Thesis Final<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Further information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/profile\/madeleine-long\">Maddie Long home page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/institute-academic-development\/postgraduate\/doctoral\/3mt\"> 3 Minute Thesis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPLS PhD student Maddie Long has just been awarded the People&#8217;s Choice Award in the National 3 Minute Thesis Competition, beating 1000s of students from all around the UK with her presentation: \u2018Language and the Brain: The Skye\u2019s the Limit.\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/maddie-long-tales-from-3-minute-thesis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-english-language","category-linguistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/files\/2016\/09\/MLong-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/forward-thinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}