MEDIA RELEASE WINNERS OF THE RESEARCH GOT TALENT AWARD 2022 The Australian Data and Insights Association and the global ESOMAR Foundation today announced the Australian winners of the Research Got Talent award. The Research Got Talent (RGT) competition encourages young professionals to use market research and insights to support local charities and NGOs to overcome pressing social issues. The RGT winners for 2022 are Roger Kong and Marissa Tsioutsis from Fiftyfive5 for their entry Supporting the Vision to Free Australia from Youth Homelessness in association with For Change Co. For Change Co. is a social enterprise that provides tools to empower young people to create their own pathway out of homelessness. 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. Kong and Tsioutsis will now complete the project with For Change Co. to 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 the ESOMAR Congress in September.
The judges for Australia's Research Got Talent Award competition included: Katie Ferro, CEO, Stable Research; Stavros Koufos, GM, QOR; Stacie Haber, Head of Strategy & Performance, Australian Red Cross; Sally Joubert, CEO, Luma Research; Lisa Lewers, CEO, Lewers Research; Caroline Tomiczek, Director, Urbis; and Lucas Wan, Sales Director, Giftpay. ADIA and ESOMAR would like to acknowledge and thank our generous sponsors for helping make this exciting initiative possible - Lewers Research, Luma Research, Stable Research, QOR and GiftPay, with 50% of all entry fees donated to the winners’ charity of choice. ADIA and ESOMAR would like to acknowledge and thank all entrants for their outstanding submissions and their respective member organisations for their support of the Research Got Talent initiative. |