3 Minute Thesis Final

3MT title - A Qualitative Study of Manager-Employee Relationship in Morocco 

Biography 

Abdel-Moughit Semlali is reading for a DBA at the University of the West of Scotland. He holds an MBA from UWS, and BSc honors from the Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco. His research interest is in Leadership and Strategic Management. His current research project explores the relationship between leaders and young employees in Morocco.

3MT title - Youth Business Start-ups in Algeria

Biography

Abderrazzak is a third year PhD student in the School of Business & Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland. His research topic is Youth Business Start-ups in Algeria. His research aims to answer what can be done to engage the youth in small business entrepreneurship across Algeria and thus implement a sustainable solution to the country’s unemployment problem?

Usman Masood 

3MT title - Risk and Resilience of Scottish Beef Industry 

Biography  

Usman Masood is in the final year of PhD at the University of the West of Scotland. Usman's research area is supply chain risk and resilience. He has completed an MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the University of Hull. Prior to that, he was working as a Credit Manager in a leading Pakistani Financial Institution. Usman has 10 years of international banking experience.  

3MT title - Determining stress levels during training exercises based on wearable sensors and machine learning  

Biography 

André Jeworutzki has a Master's degree in Computer Science. He works as a Research Assistant at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. His research interests are algorithmic decision making, machine learning, and quantified self. As part of his doctoral research, he is currently investigating how stress levels can be determined during training exercises with wearable sensors and machine learning. 

3MT title – Designing and Exploring Interfaces for Human-Atmosphere Interaction 

Biography  

Jessica has been a researcher at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences since May 2017. She holds a Master’s degree in Next Media and a vocational qualification as a Communication Designer. In her PhD thesis, she develops physical computer systems to explore the relationship between human beings and their changing environment in the research field of human-computer interaction. 

3MT title - Welcome to the Oasis, using VR games for computer science teaching. 

Biography 

Ray Holder is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Computing and PhD candidate at The University of the West of Scotland. As part of the UWS Immersive research group, he is researching the use of immersive visual and audio stimuli with simple gamification techniques to better convey basic programming concepts before their translation into written instructions. 

3MT title - “Where would you choose to study?” 

Biography: 

Daniel McKay has a BA (Hons) in Psychology and an MSc in Psychological Research Methods. Daniel successfully completed his PhD in Psychology at UWS in October 2021. His research investigates university students’ perceptions of the physical and socio-physical environment in their campus learning spaces (e.g., classroom and library spaces) and associations with educational and psychological outcomes, such as, engagement and academic stress. He is currently an Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews.  

3MT title - Pregnant women and new mothers with disabilities in Nigeria: A case study of their experience with healthcare 

Biography 

Adeola Mary is a trained and experienced Medical Doctor with over eleven years of experience working as a Medical Doctor at various University Teaching Hospitals in Nigeria and the UK.  

She obtained her medical degree in 2010 at Ladoke Akintola University Nigeria and proceeded for her Master's Programme in Public Health at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Her special interest includes Women’s health and people living with disabilities health.  She is an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and is presently completing her PhD study at the School of Health and Life Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, UK. 

3MT title - ‘The Thing’ 

Biography 

As a PhD student, artist and occupational therapist, Angela aims to understand meaning in activities and interactions with people living with advanced dementia in a care home using an action-orientated, creative study design.

Supervised by: Dr Margaret Brown, Dr Rhoda Macrae and Dr Angela Beggan within Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice, funded by UWS, Erskine and Alzheimer Scotland.

3MT title - Liminality in breast cancer, a narrative arts based study 

Biography 

Fiona Milligan has been a PhD student at the University of the West of Scotland since October 2018. She also recently joined as a lecturer in January 2022 for the Adult Nursing Programme. Fiona has a Masters degree in Public Health and is a Public Partner for Health Improvement Scotland. For most of her career, Fiona worked clinically in cardiac rehabilitation and heart failure services. Most recently, she has worked as a triage nurse for Test and Protect for NHS Ayrshire and Arran. She has undertaken research previously predominantly quantitative studies; this is her first foray into qualitative research. 

3MT title - Understanding shrimp feeding behaviour in aquaculture ponds  

Biography 

Jean-Benoît is an engineer in fisheries and aquatic sciences. He is currently a final year PhD student in shrimp aquaculture with Skretting as his industrial partner, the world leader in aquafeed. He believes technology should help mitigate risks for the aquaculture industry and help farmers sleep better at night. Jean-Benoît has always been passionate about marine biology as he is an enthusiastic angler and spearfisherman himself! 

3MT title - It matters who your neighbours are: a social composition experiment aimed at improving welfare for ornamental fish post-transport.  

Biography 

Megan was awarded a BSc degree in Biology from the University of Brighton in 2018 and a MRes degree in Biosciences from Swansea University in 2019. She is currently in the final year of her PhD, where she is researching ways to improve welfare within the ornamental fish trade. Her research interests include animal welfare, animal behaviour and ecotoxicology.