13 Aug 2025

The challenge of reducing 10,000 words into three minutes - could you do it?

From Afternoons, 1:25 pm on 13 August 2025

The average PhD thesis tends to clock in at about 100,000 words. 

So, how would you go if you had to condense that to three minutes? 

That's the premise for the University of Waikato's 'Three Minute Thesis' competition. 

10 finalists were selected to perform and this year Matthew Taylor was crowned the winner, he chats to Jesse.

Matthew Taylor won this year's 'Three Minute Thesis' competition at the University of Waikato.

Matthew Taylor won this year's 'Three Minute Thesis' competition at the University of Waikato. Photo: SUPPLIED/Matthew Taylor