My name is Priscilla and I've spent my career obsessed with one question: why do some people make complex ideas come across so clearly and others lose the room completely?

I know what it feels like to have something important to say and no idea how to make anyone outside your field care about it. That frustration drove me deep into the auditory science of communication, and ultimately to writing How to Smash the 3-Minute Thesis: The Ultimate Guide.

And here's what I've learned: you don't need to be a natural communicator or a confident public speaker to deliver a compelling 3MT. And you don't need weeks of painful preparation either. Without a system, most PhD students spend weeks going in circles, watching, drafting, scrapping, starting over. With the right step-by-step process, seven days is enough. Once you understand how lay audiences actually process information, you stop trying to compress your thesis and start building a talk that makes your research irresistible. That's exactly what this course gives you.

BUT... you don't care about my background right now, you want to know if I can actually help you! Since working with hundreds of PhD students on their 3MT preparation, the feedback is consistent: students who came in saying "I have no idea where to start" have gone on to win departmental heats, advance to faculty finals, and finally have clarity on what to say (and what not to!). I can't wait to help you get there.