08 June 2026
King's Doctoral College Research Showcase 2026
Join us online for the King's Three Minute Thesis final as part of our research showcase event.

Celebrate the breadth and depth of doctoral research taking place across King's as we count down to the King's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Grand Final which is taking place on Wednesday 10 June as part of our King's Doctoral College Research Showcase.
The showcase will also feature an exhibition of the shortlisted entries to our Images of Research competition.
The 3MT Grand Final will be live streamed to YouTube from 15.30 until 16.30 so you can watch our research students in action as they explain their research in just three minutes using only a single presentation slide.
You will be able to vote for your favourite presentation to win our People's Choice Award of £500 during the event.
There will also be a First Prize of £750 and Runner Up Prize of £500 as selected by our Judging Panel.
The winner of the King's Grand Final will continue to the national 3MT Competition, organised by Vitae.
3MT Finalists:
- Anna Melati, Race against the dying of the light, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
- Dushyanthy Pillai, Fostering Peace: From Textbook Prescriptions to Student-Defined Realities, Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy
- Jade Bowden, From Red to Green: A Colour Switch to Track Cancer Cells, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
- Bo Yu, Making 6G Greener, Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
- Denis Sofrenovic, A metallomic imaging approach: tracking copper from the micro to macro scale, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
- Ruth Tebo, Fair, AI-enabled support for people living with Breathlessness, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care
- Yuri Jang, Defusing the Landmine, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
- Christopher Ogunlowo, We Broke Up. They Won't Let Go: What Happens When You Try to Cancel a Digital Subscription, King's Business School
- Megan Lawrence, The Power of Remembering Together: Collaborative Recall and Memory Across the Lifespan, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
- Sneha Chotaliya, The Hidden Depths of a Tooth: Why Angle Matters, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences
Images of Research Shortlist:
Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
- Quentin Wight, Forest Guardian above the Rocky Cascades
- Balint Pongracz, A for Apple, G for Gun
- Ethan Scanlon, Contested Spaces
- Gertrude Sai, My Ghana through Your eyes
- Natasha Lock, Nostalgia for Sale
- Fatema Alfaheem, Conquer the Homeland
- Naira Dehmel, The drowned forest where we fish
- Dushyanthy Pillai, Students Reimagining Peace in Post-War Sri Lanka
- Katrina Kiss, The child is still young: A Zimbabwean girl with a disability shares her thoughts on child marriage
- Delia Da Mosto, Never again the asylum: carnival against confinement
- Ji Shi, Testing out of the Mountains (考出大山): Climbing China’s educational ladder to the big city
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
- Anna Collini, Who the stethoscope expects
- Tara Best, Blue Dandelions
- Karolina Stanczyk ,The Liver’s Smile
- Janice Kamajaya, Thank You for Taking Care of Us
- Leah Fogarty, The encoding of disease
- Bilkisu Jibrin, Gold, Dust and Decisions: Life Inside Nigeria’s Mining Sites Where Miners Trade Off Safety
- Timna Krenn, Labouring Together
- Tingfei Wang, Held Together
- Lauren Woodcock, The Midas Touch
- Pongpisut Thakhampaeng, The Field as Classroom: A Moment Before My Study
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
- Caroline Da Cunha Lewin, Nothing with him, nothing without him
- Goretti Hurtado Barbeito, Still Climbing: Life Beyond Multiple Sclerosis
- Holly Whitcomb, Innocent as a Lamb
- Gargi Mandal, Spot the similarities (and why we can!)
- Ottavia Ollari, Trust before data
- Rachel Whyte, The Paradox of Recovery
Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
- Sinem Görücü, Silicon Landscapes
- Helen Cunningham-Johns, The hidden beach
- Rebecca Wurr, Fibroblast spreading on a micro-pattern
- Hannah Turney, What’s in a nanoparticle?: A model to investigate drug delivery systems
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
- Andrea Romani Lopez, From the mundane to the Thing
- Annabel Ali, Shrinkage.
- Serena Owusu, Select ONE: Choose Your Path
Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care
- Sarah Cosgrove, A pregnant woman smoking cannabis and tobacco, experiencing stigma versus support
Dickson Poon School of Law
- Sari Arraf, Lofty Erasures
Related departments
- King's Doctoral College
- Faculty of Arts & Humanities
- Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
- Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy
- Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
- Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences
- Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care
- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
- King’s Business School
- The Dickson Poon School of Law