In Person

Eisteddfod 2025: Three Minute Thesis Competition

7 Aug, 2025:

3:00 pm -

3:45 am

Join the LSW ECR Network and Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol at this year’s Eisteddfod to watch Early Career Researchers from across Wales compete in a Three Minute Thesis Competition.

The competition challenges researchers to explain their research to the public in under three minutes and using only one slide.

The competition is organised by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the Early Career Researchers Network of the Learned Society of Wales, and will be held at the National Eisteddfod on Thursday, 7 August at 3pm on the Coleg Cymraeg stand.

Professor Eleri Pryse FLSW will be chairing and judging the competition alongside Dr Aled Eirug FLSW.

Speakers:

  • Teleri Owen, Cardiff University
    ‘More than the wife of a quarryman: Women’s agency in the Penrhyn Strike 1900-1903’

  • Dr Tomos Wyn David, Bangor University
    ‘Climate change and lakes’


  • Charles Roberts, Aberystwyth University
    ‘The 1918 pandemic and its effect on Wales’


  • Catrin Roberts, Bangor University
    ‘Mother tongue in the delivery room: The experience of women and midwives’


  • Heledd Williams, Cardiff University
    ‘The lost folk – Social class and the Welsh language’

The LSW ECR Network is pleased to be reimbursing the cost of the entrance ticket for participating speakers and to be sponsoring the prize of £50.

[Please Note: This is a Welsh language event]