2023 Contenders

Announcing the Research Awards 2023 Contenders

The Research Awards is proudly supported by:

         

*listed in alphabetical order by company name or surname.

Research Effectiveness Awards

Category: Public Policy / Social Impact

COMPANY	CLIENT	SUBMISSION TITLE	ENTRANTS
Australia Online Research	NSW Treasury	What Parents Want	Joel Bowman, Anthony Rush Brian Fine, Megan McCarthy, Dr Leonard Coote and Dr Edward Wei
Cobargo Folk Festival	–	Cobargo Folk Festival – Continuous Improvement Through Audience Engagement and Longitudinal Measurement	Zena Armstrong,  Frank Wilson
Fifth Quadrant	IAG	The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Index	Dr Steve Nutall
Fiftyfive5, part of Accenture Song	Road Trauma Support Group NSW	The Unheard Trauma of Fatal Road Crimes in NSW	Belinda Aanensen, Bella Castle & Loren Watling
Leapfrog Research	Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network	MPHN Connect, Your Way	Joanne Pillai, Monica McInnes
Quantum Market Research	WorkSafe Victoria	8 deaths on Victorian farm workplaces last year: A research-informed safety culture change strategy in the agriculture industry	Richard Frost, Tom Leslie
SEC Newgate	Endeavour Energy	Deep and genuine collaboration with customers to understand what they want from their electricity network (at a time when prices and cost of living are on the rise)	Sue Vercoe
Starburst Insights	RACV	What matters most to Victorians? Helping RACV advocate for change	Megan Simpson, Misha de Jesus, Kim Taylor, James Williams & Amy Szczygielski
The Behavioural Architects	Transport for NSW	Revitalising a return to offices with sustainable commutes	Alice Hsieh, Mike Daniels
Whereto Research	Victoria Police	Empowering women to report sexual offending on public transport	Penny Burke
Whereto Research	Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)	Flying High – Creating Safer Skies for all Australians	Charles Coulton, Andrew Sillis

Category: Consumer Insights

COMPANY	CLIENT	SUBMISSION TITLE	ENTRANTS
Bastion Insights	L’Oreal Australia	Understanding Australia’s (Often) Toxic Online Gaming Culture	Tabitha Lucas,  Joanne Norton & Abhi Gaddi
Fiftyfive5, part of Accenture Song	Tourism Australia	Future of Global Tourism Demand	Mathew Densten, Peter Firth & Rob Dougan
Fiftyfive5, part of Accenture Song	Ovaltine	Delivering Insight led growth for Ovaltine	Darren Kemp, Mirna Bihnam
Harvest Insights	Dulux Group	Building effective tiering strategies through price, pack claims and range optimisation	Spring Sampson, Natalie Mitchell & Darrell Collins
Nature	Asahi Lifestyle Beverages	How Nature’s Innovation in FMCG Choice Modelling Drove Commercial Uplift for Asahi Lifestyle Beverages	Emma Tommasini, Peter Stuchbery
The Evolved Group	Aspire 42	Aspire 42 partners with The Evolved Group to transform how Snaffle listens to customers	Ben Griffiths, Paul Winslow
Whereto Research	Cricket Australia	A Bigger Bash – hitting fan engagement for six	Charles Coulton, Lana Hoffman & Josh Threapleton

Category: Technology and Innovation

COMPANY	CLIENT	SUBMISSION TITLE	ENTRANTS
Insight LED, Homita Consulting and First Principles	Momentum Energy	Growing Green with a Double Diamond Customer Centric Approach	Nick Rudduck, Lainie McMinn & Gavin Bryant
Nature	–	Revolutionising Choice Modelling: Adding a time dimension to predict consumer behaviour in dynamic markets	Chris Crook , Peter Stuchbery
Today	Nike Pacific	Co-creating an equitable and inclusive future for football with Nike Pacific	Natalia Radywyl
TSAPI	–	TSAPI – The API Standard for Transferring Survey Data	Matthew Gibbs & Tim Brandwood

Young Researcher of the Year Award

• Bastion Insights, Annabel Pittendrigh
• Bastion Insights, Tara Fitzgerald
• Beyond the Narrative, Claire Timmons
• Essential Media, Robert Leaver
• Fifth Quadrant, Brad Ripps
• Fifth Quadrant, Melissa Borg
• Fiftyfive5, part of Accenture Song, Aleksandra Najdovska
• Fiftyfive5, part of Accenture Song, Bojana Jerotic
• Fiftyfive5, part of Accenture Song, David Roberts
• IQVIA, Johnson Qiu
• Nature, Tabitha Kelly
• ORIMA Research, Anna Harrison
• Platform One, James Ruta
• Quantum Market Research, Vanessa Ernst
• SEC Newgate, Olivia Hendy
• Tgarage, Max Dignam
• The Lab Insight & Strategy, Mikela Dixon
• TRA, Tara Collins

Research Organisation of the Year Award

Small Organisation

• • Beyond the Narrative
  • Leapfrog Research
  • Starburst Insights
  • TRA
  • Vibrant Insights
    
    

Large Organisation

• Bastion Insights
• Fiftyfive5, part of Accenture Song
• Nature
• Painted Dog Research
• SEC Newgate
• T garage Insights & Strategy
• The Evolved Group
• Whereto Research

Research Partner of the Year Award

• Fonto
• Octopus Group
• Pureprofile
• Qualtrics
• Roy Morgan
  

Luminate Article of the Year Award

• Why Bounded Rationality Matters Now More than Ever for NPS
  Authors: Con Menictas & Brian Fine
• The researcher as translator: why communication skills are at the heart of what we do
  Author: Susan Bell
• AI or Artificial Banditry? Exploring the Ethics of Intelligent Algorithms
  Author: Antonios Meimaris
• Young People’s Perception and Use of Generative AI
  Author: Anna Denejkina
• Hallucination: AI is at its best when it mimics the worst human behaviour
  Author: Matt Balogh
• Don’t forget the middle: Closing the research-reality gap with Behavioural Economics
  Author: Emma Tommasini