180 HRE | Faculty of Public Affairs

You have only 180 seconds to explain your Honours Research Essay… Go!

They only have 180 seconds to distill a year’s worth of work. The 180 HRE presents the best of FPA’s Honours Research Essays from undergraduates throughout the Faculty. Students make their presentation before a panel of Carleton faculty members and administrators during FPA Research Month, which runs from the end of February through the end of March.

November 8, 2017

Call for Applications: 180 HRE Competition 2018

The fourth annual 180 HRE Competition will be held from 5:30 - 7:00 pm on the evening of Wednesday, March 21, 2018 in Richcraft Hall as part of FPA Connects at Research Month.... More

April 4, 2017

FPA Research Month Celebrates the Strengths of Public Policy

It included a conference on the future of Canada, lectures from two of our country’s most prominent journalists, and much more. With more than 3,000 attendees at 35 events, FPA Research... More

March 28, 2017

Impressive Display of Undergraduate Research

Summarizing the research involved in an Honours Research Essay on to a poster board isn’t easy. Presenting that research to a panel of judges in less than three minutes is... More

March 24, 2016

A Year’s Worth of Work in 3 Minutes—The180HRE Contest

First, take a complex research project and encapsulate it into three minutes. Second, memorize it. Third, present it in front of a panel of esteemed judges and an audience. It’s... More

April 10, 2015

Undergraduate Students Impress in FPA’s First 180 HRE Competition

They had only 180 seconds to distill a year’s worth of work. But the ten undergraduates who took part in the 180 second HRE contest were able to perform that... More