The winner of the 2019 Macquarie University 3MT Gillian Smith, PhD candidate in the department of Ancient History, is the latest guest on the ResourcefulHDR podcast.

Gillian went on to win the Asia Pacific 3MT Peoples' Choice awared and in this episode she talks about how she decided to enter the competition after a 'pep talk' from her Supervisor, Dr Susanne Binder when she was feeling deflated after being in the 3MT audience as a new PhD candidate – wondering whether her research was worthy.

She speaks about how she decided to become an Egyptologist and her plan to undertake a PhD to achieve this goal, while still at school. In this episode we discuss the value of studying Ancient History and how it provides the capacity to gain perspective, particularly in relation to the constant complexity of societies.

She talks about how the love of the PhD project needs to be there from the beginning because interest needs to be sustained over time and to recognise the privilege of being surrounded by researchers who are deeply focussed on their topics.

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