Tell It Straight Competition

The School of English extends its congratulations to first-year PhD student, Siba Ewaiwi, who was chosen as runner-up in this year¡¯s Tell It Straight competition. Run by the DCU Graduate Studies Office, Tell It Straight challenges PhD students to present their research to a general audience in five minutes. Siba spoke about her doctoral research on ¡®The representation of female football protagonists in fictional writings from 1921 onwards.¡¯

The competition, now in its ninth year, saw over 80 applicants in 2022, eventually narrowed down to just fourteen final speakers. Siba presented alongside other first-year research students in category one, which featured work from across the university on a range of topics from vaccine hesitancy to epilepsy and wound healing to refugee initiatives. Siba¡¯s work on women¡¯s soccer in literature impressed the judges and she was a deserved winner of the runner-up prize. Well done, Siba!