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Events and entertainment, Our Community, Postgraduate study, Study@UC, The Community

Visualise Your Thesis Returns!

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Want a chance to win some cash for the work you’ve done on your thesis?

Or looking to sharpen your digital communication skills?

The UC Library team is once again running the Visualise Your Thesis programme!

What is VYT?

Submit a 60-second audio-visual presentation that explains your research project to a general audience and be in to win cash prizes!

What are the prizes?

  • 1st prize – NZ$1000 (& entry into the international Visualise Your Thesis programme)
  • 2nd prize – NZ$500
  • 3rd prize – NZ$250
  • People’s Choice Award – NZ$250

This is a chance to hone in on your digital communications skills, with the support from the UC library team. Learning to explain your thesis to clearly and concisely!

Even further to that…we have an information lunch for them to pop their head in and learn more about the competition – no strings attached!

This lunch is a chance to come and meet the UC Library team and previous VYT competition winners. A free pizza lunch will be provided while we:

  • Hear from previous competition winners.
  • Present a brief rundown of the programme guidelines.
  • And share some tips and tricks for creating your submission.
  • Have some time to talk one-on-one with us and ask any questions you want.
  • As well as network with your post-graduate peers!

You can register here for the lunch, which will be on Wednesday 8th May 2024, 12.30-1.30pm in Ernest Rutherford 141.

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If you’re ready and rearing to go then register and learn more about Visualise Your Thesis here.

We hope to see you there!

Ngā mihi,

The 2024 Visualise Your Thesis Team

Events and entertainment, Our Community, The Community

UC Bio Blitz

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It’s City Nature University Challenge time, so come join us on Friday 26 April for a campus “Bio Blitz”! 🐛🐝🦋🍄🌱🐦
 
Meet outside Ancestral Cafe on the North side of the Ernest Rutherford building to join University of Canterbury staff and students for a biodiversity ramble across the University campus to hunt out all things living.
 
You will be helping capture a snapshot of the wider Christchurch biota and contributing to the University’s research. You will most likely learn something interesting about the natural world alongside experts and experts in the making. This event is suitable for all ages and abilities.
 
UC is competing against Lincoln University in the first ever City Nature University Challenge, so a good turnout for this would be awesome, although anything you record on the UC campus during the full four days of the challenge will help us win.
 
Check out the University Leaderboard here: https://inaturalist.nz/…/cnc2024-university-challenge…
 
Spread the word and we’ll see you there! 🕷
Community notice, Events and entertainment, Our Community, The Community, Wellbeing

Campus Foraging Tour 🍋

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Join us for a lunch-hour walk around campus to find the best spots to forage for edible fruits, native nibbles, herbs, nuts and berries! 🍋🍐🍎🍊

When: Thursday 2 May, 12pm – 1pm

Where: Meet at the fruit trees outside Cafe 1894

The walk will begin outside Cafe 1894 at 12pm and will end at Waiutuutu Community Garden just before 1pm. If you can, please stay for a cup of herbal tea in the garden afterwards.

Your guide Seamus is UC’s Biodiversity Co-ordinator and has years of experience working on and with the UC Grounds team.

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This event is part of Organic Week Aotearoa. Check out the other events happening in your community here.

More about UC’s edible campus and a foraging map can be found here.