Recognising Excellence in COnsumer Partnership in Research In AUSTRALIA
The Idea
In May 2025, AccessCR will host a virtual event to showcase and celebrate excellence in consumer engagement and involvement in health and medical research in Australia. In December, a portal will open for submissions to be showcased at this event.
Why?
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.
This event will be provide a unique platform for showcasing the contributions and impact of consumers to research. Though there will be an opportunity for recognition through awards, in our view, every story, every action, is a step in the right direction to fully embedding the consumer voice in research. As such, all video entries deemed to add value to the knowledge base around what's possible and what's happening in Australia will be made public as a resource for learning and sharing.
Planning in progress
This will be a no-cost/low-cost virtual event held over 2-3 days. Entrants to the awards will provide video submissions through a portal. There will be a couple of rounds of judging (including a public voting round) to select finalists for each Award. Finalists will present through a 'conference' and a winner selected for each award. Winners will be presented with a team momento and cash reward.
We are currently finalising our Steering Committee, and plans, with a view to launching the submission portal in mid December.
A Sponsorship brochure will be available early December, with a range of sponsor levels. In the first instance, if your organisation would like to publicly endorse and promote the conference to its networks, please contact us as soon as possible to discuss free and future paid options for supporting this event.