Have you witnessed, delivered or experienced,
excellence in consumer partnership in research
and/or a gold-class participant experience?
This is your invitation to nominate
others, or self-nominate for an Award
and tell the world about it!
The Award categories for 2025 are:
A - Excellence in Consumer Partnership in Non-Commercial Research,
B - Excellence in Consumer Partnership in Industry-Funded Research and Development,
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
At their discretion, judging panels will also be given latitude to highlight entries, whether or not they are finalists or winners, for 'Special Mention'. In particular, this may be applicable if there has been exceptional practice in engaging/partnering with those often underrepresented in research and creating safe, welcoming environments for partnership or participation in research, that could inspire others to engage more diversely.
People's choice awards may also be presented.
The formal award winners, as selected and announced by the judging panels on the 13 August 2025, will receive a trophy and token prize money (mre to come on this) to be awarded in person at a later date. Special mentions and People's Choice Awards will receive a framed certificate.
All entries will be asked to consent to release of their entry subsequent to the Awards, winners or not, as a library of initiatives and individuals others can learn from and be inspired to action.
How to enter
The process for entry is quite simple.
1. Register as a user on the Awards Platform. (You will need to input an email address and password of 12 or more characters, including a special character).
2. Read the Key Information about the Awards Process, Awards Criteria & What the Judges Will Look For, Video Tips, and more. Download dummy entry forms for the category of interest so you can prepare.
3. Record your video (no longer than 3 mins), so you are ready to upload with your entry. The video is the most important element of the entry, that judges will primarily focus on to assess entries.
4. Create and submit your online entry by 22 April, 2025, 11:59PM AEST (Sydney time).
5. Cross your fingers and toes, and hang out for updates on how your entry is moving through the process.
There are no restrictions on the number of nominations you can make, other than you cannot enter a nominated activity to more than 1 category.
You will also be able to participate in the public voting round in early June, and the live finalist presentations event and winners announcement, virtually, on the 12-13 August.
We hope you will make nominations, and look forward to seeing them.