2025
Latest Programme Updates
2025 Winners announced
Congratulations to our 2025 prize winners as selected by our judging panel - Saskia Walcott, Tullio Rossi and Jo Havemann.
- 1st place AUD $5,000 prize - Saraswat Basu, Development Of A 3D Bioprinted Oral Mucosal Model, (University of Queensland)
- 2nd place AUD $2,000 prize - Sharyn Frantz, Disbelief, Grief or Relief? Examining the Psychological Impact of a Lipoedema Diagnosis in Australian Women, (Swinburne University).
- 3rd place $1,000 prize - M Tadik Hasan, Signs of Change - Designing Hope for Deaf Mental Health, (Monash University)
- Honourable mention from judges - Sathiyamoorthy Mathushan, Molecular Dynamics in Gold-Based Nanoglasses: Glass Formation, Synthesis and Properties, (University of Melbourne)
Winners were announced on our LinkedIn page on 21 October.
Entries
The winning entries from each institution are available to view on the international Visualise Your Thesis Figshare site.
Check out the amazing entries from this years programme on Figshare.
Announcing our 2025 participating institutions
We're excited to announce the institutions that will be participating in this year's international Visualise Your Thesis programme:
CQ University (Australia)
Victoria University (Australia)
UNSW Sydney (Australia)
Curtin University (Australia)
The University of Sydney (Australia)
Deakin University (Australia)
The University of Western Australia (Australia)
Federation University (Australia)
North-West University (South Africa)
The Australian National University (Australia)
La Trobe University (Australia)
Macquarie University (Australia)
Monash University (Australia)
RMIT University (Australia)
Swinburne University of Technology (Australia)
The University of Adelaide (Australia)
The University of Canterbury (Aotearoa New Zealand)
The University of Johannesburg (South Africa)
The University of Melbourne (Australia)
The University of Newcastle (Australia)
The University of Queensland (Australia)
Our participating institutions will host their own local Visualise Your Thesis programme over the coming months and select graduate research to put forward for the international programme. If you are a graduate researcher from one of the above universities and want to submit a VYT entry, contact your institution for more information.
We can't wait to see the entries from the participating graduate researchers from all around the world!
Missed out on registering your University for the 2025 programme? Contact us via visualise-thesis@unimelb.edu.au and we'll add you to our mailing list to receive updates in the future.
Prizes
First place: AUD $5,000
Second place: AUD $2,000
Third place: AUD $1,000
Trending on VYT: Trending on VYT recognised the entrant who achieved the highest number of views for their video on the VYT Figshare repository during a set period, the prize for 2025 is yet to be confirmed. Watch this space!
Timeline
Institutions have from March to August to host their local programme. The sooner institutions register to participate, the sooner they can launch their local programme.
- 12 March - 30 June
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Institutions submit an expression of interest and register to host a local Visualise Your Thesis programme.
- 12 March 31 August
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Visualise Your Thesis local programmes held at individual universities worldwide. Winners of local Visualise Your Thesis programmes are entered into the International Visualise Your Thesis Programme.
- September
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Institutional winners who will be participating in Visualise Your Thesis International 2025 are announced, and entries published on the Visualise Your Thesis Figshare repository.
- October
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Trending on VYT takes place, rewarding the entrant whose entry has the most views on the VYT International Figshare repository during a set week of the programme. #TrendingOnVYT
The judges select the winning entries, and the Visualise Your Thesis award announcements are made online.
Sponsors
The International Visualise Your Thesis repository is powered by Figshare. Figshare also sponsor the Trending on Visualise Your Thesis prize.
Contact us
For further information, institutions can contact visualise-thesis@unimelb.edu.au. You can also connect with us by following the Visualise Your Thesis LinkedIn.
Please note: University of Melbourne graduate researchers should visit the UoM Visualise Your Thesis site.