 I'm Rosanna Stevens. I am a PhD candidate here at the Research School of Humanities and the Arts and my field of interest is interdisciplinary so I am interested in critical whiteness studies, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music, writing, fiction and classical music as well. It's an interesting spread. In my three minute pieces I kind of grapple with the idea of what whiteness is. How can we look at it and understand it to see what it does to other people? People who fit into this society are taught to think of it as normal and awesome, but if you don't fit in whiteness is very visible. Aboriginal and Black academics and activists are suggesting that one of the first steps... I think when you do the three minute thesis you cannot expect to actually fit your whole thesis in 80,000 words into three minutes. So I picked one element of my thesis. I knew that if I got on that stage and I said, my thesis is a novel and it's exploring the lives of these characters doing this thing, which is kind of exploring this idea and also critical whiteness studies. People just would have been like, I don't understand. I'm done. I'm out. Thank you kindly. Have fun with your research. I didn't want that. I wanted to communicate a really clear message. The crux of speaking on the stage was communicating why our research is important to the public. At the crux of that is the fact that we all really love what we do because we do believe it is changing something and change is good.