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Seyi Ugochukwu and Muthanna Saari win the Three-Minute Competition!
By: Helen Young
Last updated: Thursday, 3 April 2025
Seyi Ugochukwu and Muthanna Saari - 3-Min Thesis winners
The Faculty of Social Sciences and IDS were delighted to host the Three-Minute Thesis Competition this week. We heard from seven very impressive post-graduate researchers, who had the difficult task of explaining their thesis in just three minutes.
Congratulations to Seyi Ugochukwu (Law) who was our competition winner and Muthanna Saari (International Development), who came in at second place.
Both Seyi and Muthanna also shared the People's Vote!
The audience and panel were deeply impressed by all the competitors. Their important work is making a difference to societies across the globe. Their topics are:
Seyi Ugochukwu (Law): Access to Legal for Undocumented Migrants in the UK: A Postcolonial Perspective.
Muthanna Saari (International Development): Solidarity in ‘scarcity’ – reimagining the practice of zakat
Naimat Zafary (International Development): The Interpreters of Development: Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) National Workers, the National Solidarity Programme (NSP), and foreign aid in Afghanistan from 2001-2021
Sam Rahman (Politics): Can Prospect Theory Help Explain the Effects of Macroeconomic Fluctuations On Support for Far-Right Political Parties?
Lindsay Duffield (Global Studies): Things that happen, when nothing happens.
Arunima Shandilya (Migration Studies): Pakistani-Hindu migrants in India: narratives from migration to citizenship
Arthur de Queiroz Campos Araujo (Social Anthropology): Uniformed Citizens: Complicity and Dissent in Brazil's Militarized Amazonian Frontier
Congratulations for all who took part in this chellenging competition!