Our Online Consumer Engagement Platform

Engage with our existing consumer network

Our online consumer engagement platform, Research Say, is open to all researchers from universities and companies across Australia who wish to engage consumers and community members in their research.

Researchers can deliver one-time engagement projects or undertake longer, ongoing projects, all at cost-effective rates. Once signed up to our platform, researchers create a page about their research that includes activities for consumers to engage with, such as polls and sticky notes of ideas. With the systems, infrastructure and access to consumers already in place, researchers will be able to receive consumer and community feedback more efficiently than ever before.

Research Say also makes engagement easier for consumers who can choose to engage with a research project or not, and are provided with extensive and empowering training resources.

If you have a research project (big or small) that needs or will need consumer engagement, email med-clinicaltrials@monash.edu.

If you’re interested in contributing to research as a consumer, sign up to Research Say today.

The benefits of using our consumer network include:

• testing new interventions and tools for clinical, patient and health system utility in the context of each other before beginning your trial
• ensuring your clinical research is participant-focused, successful and meaningful
• partnering with community members from diverse backgrounds, including educational, occupational, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds.

Examples of trial activities that our consumer network can inform include:

• identification of evidence gaps
• research priorities
• innovation opportunities
• the incorporation of patient preferences and values in study start-up and research design to support recruitment and retention
• the selection of outcome measures relevant to consumers.

Email med-clinicaltrials@monash.edu to enquire about using or joining the Research Say platform.