Entries for 2025

One of the prizes awarded for the Visualise Your Thesis (VYT) competition is the Popular vote prize. That’s where you come in. Watch this year’s entries below and let us know your favourite by registering and casting your vote. The entry with the most votes will win $250.

Voting closes Wednesday 3 September 2025 at 5 pm AEST.

Watch the entries for 2025

Entry #1

Brain vs. Buffet: Can fasting keep you sharp?
Aayushi Arora
Department of Microbiology, Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology
School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment

Entry #2

Critical perspectives on disasters from persons of Filipino background in Australia
Anna Torres Abblitt
Department of Social Inquiry
School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Entry #3

Beyond the familiar: Exploring online clinical competency assessments in Physiotherapy
Brooke Flew
School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport

Entry #4

When the world cleared: Vision for a sustainable world
Lidija Radevska
School of Business

Entry #5

The work in critical electricity infrastructure security and resilience
Merry Jean Caparas
Climate Change Adaption Lab
School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Entry #6

The dirt on disease: Tracing mycobacterium outbreaks from the ground up
Natalie Klukowski
Department of Microbiology, Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology
School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment

Entry #7

The buzz about honey bee vaccines
Olivia Ducommun-Dit-Verron
Department of Ecology, Plant and Animal Sciences
School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment

Entry #8

Empowering body's defence system to fight cancer's toughest challenges
Dr Purva Trivedi
School of Cancer Medicine

Entry #9

Digital integration in Saudi girls' EFL classrooms: A post-digital approach
Reem Alqahtani
School of Education

Entry #10

Untargeted nutrigenomics in Drosophila: Dietary insights for inherited disorders of amino acid metabolism
Zoriana Novosiadla
Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry
School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment

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