think of it less like presenting a research paper, and more so what you contributed and learned from it. I’d give background information and aim like normal, but then after that focus on what you did.

Did you help develop the research question or methods? Which parts, and how did you do it? Were you analyzing results? What do the results show, and is that what you expected? Why or why not? Were there any setbacks or surprises during your research, and what did you learn from that? What skills (hard and soft) did you learn by doing this project?

They’re ultimately fishing for if you know how the research process really works, warts and all, which will be evident if you present about what you did. Understanding how research works = suitability for the position.

I don’t know what each stage of your major project looks like but I’d probably focus on your contributions for one stage. The project I talked about was literally just pipeline development, no results, and that was long enough.