winner of the national People\u2019s Choice Award.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI wasn\u2019t always comfortable speaking in public. This has been a challenge for me in the past,\u201d she says. \u201cMy master\u2019s studies allowed me to work on these skills through conferences and presentations, helping me to feel more comfortable and confident in front of a crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cameron, who is from Caledon, Ont., will receive her degree this week during Brock\u2019s Spring Convocation ceremonies. After defending her thesis last fall, she accepted a position as a Research Ethics Officer in Brock\u2019s Office of Research Services.<\/p>\n
\u201cI realized that once I had defended my thesis, I wouldn\u2019t have as many opportunities to participate in conferences and present my research,\u201d she says. \u201cThe contest gave me a chance to keep telling people my story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cameron\u2019s research investigates ways to make the gym setting a more comfortable and less critical place for women. In her presentation, \u201c\u201cMirror, Mirror on the Wall\u2026,\u201d Cameron explains that societal pressures to appear slim and beautiful may initially cause many women to be anxious when they view their reflection during workouts. But when those women use the mirror to develop correct techniques and form during exercise, that anxiety disappears.<\/p>\n
As part of her 3MT\u00ae preparations, Cameron attended several communications and presentation workshops offered by Research Services and the Faculty of Graduate Studies through its VITAE Essential Skills program.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe communications workshops were extremely helpful,\u201d she says. \u201cIt gave me a chance to brainstorm my ideas for the presentation with students who were not from my discipline. It helped me to break down more complex terminology that we use in our field.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter one of the workshops I went home really motivated and spent the evening writing my script. I thought very carefully about the unique aspects of my research that make it current and that people would relate to \u2014 that\u2019s when I came up with the references, for example, to Kim Kardashian and taking selfies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI really benefited from the Performing the Text Workshop that was held in ahead of Brock\u2019s 3MT\u00ae preliminary round in February. There was lots of advice and tips on the writing structure and how to approach the 3MT\u00ae from a performance lens versus our usual academic presentations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cameron also found it helpful to orient herself with the presentation venues.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore the final round at Brock I went to the mezzanine at Plaza 400 and spent a few minutes in the environment,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen I arrived at the venue for the Ontario finals in Waterloo, I made a point of going up on the stage for a minute or two to become familiar with the room.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cameron says 3MT\u00ae has been a fantastic experience on both a personal and academic level.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was wonderful to meet other students who were involved in the contest,\u201d she says. \u201cAs a graduate student you find yourself becoming absorbed in your work and your field. By being part of 3MT\u00ae, you get a chance to talk with students from other programs and to realize the range of research under way here at Brock and at universities across the province.<\/p>\n
\u201cI encourage people to seize opportunities such as this, which push you outside your comfort zone \u2014 you\u2019ll be surprised at what you can accomplish.\u201d<\/p>\n
Videos of Brock\u2019s 3MT\u00ae finals, held at the 2016 Mapping the New Knowledges Graduate Student Research Conference, are now posted online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carly Cameron has found her comfort zone when standing in front of audiences and talking about her research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":38485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,4052,1,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39322,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39321\/revisions\/39322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}