Australia's peak industry body for research, data and insights organisations MEDIA RELEASE RESEARCH GOT TALENT AWARD 2021 – WINNER ANNOUNCED The Australian Data and Insights Association (ADIA, formerly AMSRO) and the global ESOMAR Foundation today announced the Australian winner for the Research Got Talent Award 2021 competition. The Research Got Talent (RGT) competition, run in conjunction with the International Market Research Day (#IMRD), encourages young professionals to use market research and insights to support local charities and NGOs to overcome pressing social issues. The RGT winners for 2021 are Samantha Liew and May Chantra from Lewers Research for their entry - Courage to Care - Upstander Program Scoping in association with Courage to Care Victoria (C2C) - a project that aims to equip C2C with insights it needs to help expand its Upstander Programs which address racism, bullying and prejudice - in the schoolyard, workplace and community. The research projects in the RGT competition aim to assist change in various areas, including gender inequality, access to justice and education, integration and diversity, environmental issues, and climate change. The young researchers were required to submit a project proposal about the problem facing the charity/ NGO and how they would conduct research to assist it in overcoming this issue. Entries were required to reflect a relevant, innovative, and impactful research design project that assesses the organisation's specific issue. Liew and Chantra will now complete the project with Courage To Care Victoria and enter their final report as Australia's entry into ESOMAR's global competition. Winners from each region (participating in the worldwide competition) will present their work to an international audience at ESOMAR Congress in September. The other finalists for 2021 were:
The judges for Australia's Research Got Talent Award competition included: Katie Ferro, CEO, Stable Research; Dianne Gardiner, CEO, Bastion Insights; John Givens, Rotary Australia; Stacie Haber, Australian Red Cross; Nora Hungershoefer, Associate Director APAC, Luc.id; Sally Joubert, CEO, Luma Research; Lisa Lewers, CEO, Lewers; Rob McLachlan, former Chairman, Kantar Australia; Caroline Tomiczek, Director, Urbis and Lucas Wan, Sales Director, Giftpay. ADIA and ESOMAR would like to acknowledge and thank all RGT entrants for their outstanding submissions and their respective member organisations who support the Research Got Talent initiative. ADIA and ESOMAR would also like to acknowledge and thank our generous sponsors for helping make this exciting initiative possible - Lewers, Luma Research, LUCID, Stable Research and GiftPay. About the Australian Data and Insights Association (ADIA) The Australian Data and Insights Association (ADIA) is the peak industry body for data, insights and research organisations in Australia. ADIA (formerly AMSRO) represents close to 100 of Australia’s leading data, insights and research companies, with members employing over 5,000 people in an industry generating over $1 billion of economic activity annually. ADIA members conduct research with Australians for most of the ASX top 200 companies and the majority of State and Federal Government departments. ADIA works in partnership with its company members, plus privacy authorities, business, government and the community to protect and promote the industry and uphold the highest ethical and privacy standards working under the first and only (non-mandatory) registered Industry APP Privacy Code since 2003. ADIA - the home of leading data, insights and research companies. www.dataandinsights.com.au |