Congratulations to all the winners,

announced live, online, 13th Aug 2025, 5pm AEST.



Click to Find Out Who The Winners Are

Welcome to ACCEssCR's flagship CCReW event for 2025.

On the 12-13 Aug 2025, AccessCR hosted a virtual Awards event to showcase and celebrate excellence in consumer partnership and participant experience in health and medical research in Australia. 


Why?

First, because it's what our community asked for - a platform to celebrate and empower CCReW. CCReW stands for the Community and Consumer Research Workforce - our nickname for the people taking part in research, and partnering  in research activities, to ultimately help improve health outcomes for others in the future.

Secondly, every day we hear stories of excellent practice and impact in consumer engagement and involvement in research. However, those stories are not always in the public domain. We want to celebrate great practice and inspire the community and researchers to realise the potential that working together provides to achieve better, faster outcomes from research. "Better Together'.

This event provided a unique platform for showcasing the contributions and impact of consumers to research. Though there are Award winners, in our view, every story, every action, is a step in the right direction to fully embedding the consumer voice in research. As such, we hope to make available all video entries via our YouTube channel in due course to add to the knowledge base around what's possible and what's happening in Australia as a resource for learning and sharing.


We are eternally grateful to all the people and organisations that have rallied behind this event - the Steering Committee, the judges, the entrants, the promoters, the behind-the-scene doers, the intellectual and emotional supporters, and more.  As an exceptionally small team, AccessCR could not have hosted these Awards without this village, and we encourage you to learn more about them here.


A special thanks to our Platinum Event Partner:

Bellberry Limited

Read more about the entire village of Individuals, Sponsors and In-Kind Supporters that have helped make these Awards possible.



The 2025 Award Categories

* A - Excellence in Consumer Partnership in Non-Commercial Research

* C - Excellence in Consumer Partner Capacity Building

* D - Excellence in Research Participant Experience

* E - Outstanding individual consumer impact on Health and Medical Research

* F - Outstanding Consumer Advisory Group Impact on Health and Medical Research

When Were Entries Able to be Submitted?

The Awards platform opened for nominations on the 25 Feb 2025 and closed on the 29 Apr 2025, 9am AEST. Individuals and teams were asked to submit a video (up to 3 mins) outlining their consumer partnership activity, its purpose, what was done, and its impact to research. Research participants and site/sponsors were also able also tell us about having/creating 'gold class' research participant experiences.

What Was the judging process?

Judging panels assessed entries during May-June 25 to determine entries to progress to the public vote and finals. The public voted for People's Choice Awards in 3 categories between 23Jun-24 July.  Finalists chosen by the judging panels were announced 25 July 2025. 

When Did Finalists Present?

Finalists presented more information about their work on the 12 August, virtually (during National Science Week). Anyone was able to register to attend the live, online finalists event, free. 

When Were Winners Announced?

On the evening of 13 Aug 2025, winners were announced each Award category. Find out who the winners were.

People's Choice and Category Award winners receive a cash prize, trophy and a gift for all team members.