UWA is embarking on a bold new impact initiative to increase community understanding and participation in our research. The UWA Crowd Research website is available at www.crowdresearch.uwa.edu.au and provides a portal for people to:

• Enlist to join a pool of participants who sign up to take part in future UWA research projects across a broad range of disciplines. To this end, UWA have joined forces with a Healthway funded project called ‘UWA REACH’ which is attempting to recruit 500,000 Western Australians. There are already 3,642 people who have registered and 5 research projects are in progress.
• Participate in an active research project now by helping to identify and collect important research data sets or by participating as a research subject.
• Contribute by helping to fund a research project. Here UWA has established a collaboration with an Australian third party provider called ‘Chuffed’ which hosts information about our projects and collects and receipts donations on our behalf.

This information session will describe the background thinking to UWA Crowd Research and will also provide information about how researchers and the community can get involved.