Association of Postgraduate Students (APS) sponsors the UQ Library's Visualise Your Thesis competition. Here's more information:
Graduate researchers, showcase your research, sharpen your visual storytelling skills and compete for cash prizes by entering the 2025 Visualise Your Thesis competition!
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About the competition
Visualise Your Thesis challenges entrants to create an eye-catching, 60-second audio-visual representation of their research project and its potential benefits that is accessible to a general audience.
Open to graduate research students
The competition is open to currently enrolled graduate researchers (students enrolled in Master of Philosophy, Masters by Research, PhD, or Professional Doctorate programs) at any stage of their candidature who are active and attending.
Judging
Entries will be judged in August. The judges will be looking for:
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visual impact and how well the content presents the research
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creativity, use of multi-media, interactivity and interpretation.
The UQ winner will advance to the international competition round later this year.
Prizes
Winners will receive prize money of:
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2025 UQ winner: A$1200
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Second place: A$700
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Third place: A$300
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Viewer's Choice: A$500.
How to enter
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Express your interest now
Submit an expression of interest from 12 June until 11:59pm on 1 August 2025. We will email eligible entrants with details about how to prepare and submit your entry to the competition.
Key competition dates for 2025
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Expressions of interest: open from 12 June
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Competition entries: open until 1 August
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Announcement of winner: 18–22 August
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Winning entry into international competition: 2 September
How to prepare
Feeling inspired? Here are a few things you can do to prepare to enter the competition. 
View past entries
Watch entries in the 2024 international competition:
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Watch the UQ 2024 Visualise Your Thesis award winner presentation by Rian Mantasa Salve Prastica: Crafting Our Concrete Channels into Naturalized Waterways: First Steps for Developing Countries.
Brush-up on your skills
Take advantage of your access to LinkedIn Learning online courses to help develop your software, design and visual story-telling skills.
Contact us if you have questions
Email us at scholarlypublishing@library.uq.edu.au if you have questions about entering the Visualise Your Thesis competition.
About Visualise Your Thesis
The Visualise Your Thesis competition was developed by the University of Melbourne. The competition has offered local and international competition rounds since 2019 and has wide international reach. 
UQ first participated in the competition in 2022.
Read more about the Visualise Your Thesis competition.