Participate in surveys run by our very own UNSW research students and contribute to their theses!
The surveys listed below are currently open for participation. Please note that they may have unique eligibility criteria and incentives for completion.
Sensory processing and eating behaviours
Researchers at UNSW are looking for individuals to take part in an online study about sensory processing and eating behaviours. This study is investigating the impact of sensory processing, encompassing both exteroception (e.g., smells, tastes, textures, sounds) and interoception (thirst, hunger, fullness, pain), on our attitudes towards eating, the ways we eat, and how we think about eating.
Eligibility:
- Live in Australia
- Aged 18+
- Speak English
Incentive: Go into the draw to win 1 of 10 $20 Coles vouchers
Want to know more? Read about the study and view the Participant Information & Consent Form.
Study on romance fiction, reading and TikTok use
Eligibility:
- Have purchased and read a book in the last 6 months
- Use TikTok
- Use some other form of social media
- Aged 18+
Participants will be asked to complete an online survey. It should take approximately 1 hour. The survey will ask questions about your reading habits and social media use relative to reading, as well as your experiences with feminism and representation of women in romance fiction.
How intuition influences language use
Eligibility: Aged 18+ and meet the English criteria listed here.
Incentive: $20-35 gift card
This research includes an engaging online reading task that will use your webcam to record your eye movements, an online task that will ask you whether readings are grammatical, and online confidence tasks based on guesses and corrections made.
Determining the association between level of self-regulated and self-directed aptitudes of learning (SELF-ReDiAL) and wellbeing in health professional students
Eligibility: Students enrolled in health-related programs, including medicine, optometry, physiotherapy, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing and other allied health disciplines at universities in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
Incentive: N/A
Researchers at UNSW are conducting a project to develop a tool for measuring SR in health professional students and determine the association between self-regulated and self-directed aptitudes of learning (SELF-ReDiAL) aptitude and wellbeing. Participation in this research will take approximately 8 minutes.
Learn more and get involved.
Examining the influence of national culture on aviation incidents
Eligibility: Aged 18+, enrolled in a postgraduate program at UNSW.
Incentive: $30 voucher for a session lasting approximately 75 minutes.
Researchers at UNSW Aviation are conducting a project about assessing the reliability and the usability of a national-culture index to support the analysis of aviation incidents. Postgraduate students at UNSW are being invited to take part in this research. Participation in this research does not require any prior background/knowledge in aviation.
Disrupting the default mode network to improve cognition
Eligibility: People aged 18-60, not taking any medications that may affect brain stimulation, no history of serious medical conditions, not pregnant, no current history of drug or alcohol abuse, among other criteria.
Incentive: $150 in gift vouchers for four sessions (approx six hours in total).
Researchers at UNSW are conducting a project investigating whether brief and transient disruptions of the default mode network (DMN), a pattern of brain activity that engages when one is idle, can improve cognitive performance on a working memory task.
Characteristic Changes of Visual Functions using Atropine Eye Drops
Eligibility: Aged between 18 and 35 with good general and eye health. Further eligibility criteria apply.
Incentive: A $20 Coles gift card for each study visit (a total of $40).
UNSW researchers are conducting a study to evaluate the effect of using 0.05% atropine eye drops on our ability to discriminate objects' motions, contrast and colour at low-light levels in subjects with shortsightedness (myopia).
Analysing perceptions of normality, and influences for female genital cosmetic surgery
Eligibility: UNSW students based in NSW aged 18-35
Incentive: N/A
Researchers at UNSW are conducting a project about public’s perceptions of the range of normal with regards to female genitalia and factors influencing the decision to access female genital cosmetic surgery. The focus groups will be divided into 3 categories; those who currently have female genitalia, those who currently have male genitalia, those who have had any cosmetic genital surgical procedures. Participants who are uncomfortable taking part in mixed gender focus groups but would like to take part in the research can choose to complete a one-on-one interview.
Learn more about this research.
An investigation of the roles of both the right inferior frontal cortex and presupplementary motor area in subserving impulsivity via the response inhibition neural pathway
Eligibility: Right-handed people aged between 18 and 50 who do not smoke and are not taking any medications which might affect brain stimulation, among other criteria.
Incentive: $150 in gift vouchers to reimburse you for any reasonable travel, parking, meals and other expenses after completing four experimental sessions.
Researchers at UNSW are conducting a project to investigate the roles of the right inferior frontal cortex and presupplementary motor area in modulating brain function associated with impulsive behaviours using non-invasive brain stimulation and cognitive tasks.
Investigating the role of near vision behaviour in the myopia progression among children
Eligibility:
- Aged 6 to 14 years old
- Have short-sightedness (myopia) greater than -0.50D and emmetropic (normally sighted) (+- 0.50D)
- Best corrected vision 0.1 logMAR (6/7.5) or better in each eye
- No history of eye turn (strabismus) or lazy eye (amblyopia)
- Good ocular and general health
- Not using any form of myopia control treatment
- Myopic children willing to undergo myopia treatment at the UNSW Optometry Clinic.
Incentive: A $100 Coles voucher for completing Phase 1 and a $300 Coles voucher for completing Phase 2. During the screening test, if the child fails to meet study inclusion criteria, they will receive only a $25 Coles voucher.
Researchers at UNSW are seeking participants for a project to compare near vision behaviour (NVB) between myopic and emmetropic children.
To express your interest, contact Samrat Sarkar (PhD student in the School of Optometry and Vision Science under the supervision of Dr Pauline Kang and A/Prof Sieu Khuu) at [email protected].
An investigation to explore which one of the languages is the source language for conceptual transfer when they learn Korean as a third language.
Eligibility:
(1) English-Chinese bilinguals born and raised in Australia;
(2) Korean-English bilinguals born and raised in South Korean and learn English as a second language;
(3) Chinese-English bilinguals born and raised in China and learn Korean as a third language.
Incentive: $35-50 Prezzee gift card
UNSW researchers are conducting a study aims to investigate the influence of a person’s prior knowledge of language(s) on the knowledge of other language(s) by investigating how the languages acquired by Mandarin-English bilinguals growing up in different language contexts influence their concept of temporal expressions related to tense and aspect in both languages.
For bilingual speakers: Click here
For trilingual speakers: Click here
Justice Inclusion Access (JInA) - Ecosystem of support for women students from forced migrant background
Eligibility:
(1) Identify as a woman
(2) Enrolled in an undergraduate or postgraduate degree (including HDR) at UNSW
(3) Experienced forced migration prior to settling in Australia.
Incentive: N/A
The JINA project aims to understand the current and emerging professional development needs of women in undergrad or postgrad study (including HDR) at UNSW who have experienced forced migration prior to settling in Australia.
UNSW Language Lab investigating how to enhance online learning experiences
Eligibility: University students who are speakers of English as a first language
Incentive: $20 Woolworths eGift card
UNSW Language Lab is calling students who are native speakers of English (monolingual or multilingual speakers, born in any English-speaking country) to participate in their online survey to help improve students' online learning experience.
For monolingual or multilingual speakers: Click here
Understanding student knowledge and attitudes towards interprofessional education
Eligibility:
To be enrolled in one of the following programs:
o Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Medicine/Master of Pharmacy
o Bachelor of Exercise Science/Master of Physiotherapy and Exercise Physiology
o Bachelor of Applied Exercise Science/Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology
o Bachelor of Nutrition/Master of Dietetics and Food Innovation
o Bachelor of Vision Science/Master of Clinical Optometry
o Bachelor of Vision Science
o Bachelor of Medical Studies/Doctor of Medicine
AND
o Are not in your first year of study
Incentive: $100 gift card
Researchers at UNSW are conducting a project to understand what measurement tools are most appropriate for medical and health students to use in measuring their attitudes and knowledge towards interprofessional learning and practice.
Grit and Determination: Phenomenological Insights into Women Engineering Students’ Journeys
We are conducting a project about the first-hand lived experiences of senior undergraduate engineering women students from the Faculty of Engineering.
Eligibility:
- Above the age of 18 years old
- Enrolled within any school of the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW
- Third- or fourth-year woman engineering student at UNSW
- Fluent in English
- Willing and able to participate in individual interviews
Participants will be asked to complete the following research activities if they agree to participate:
- Face-to-face or Online Interview that will take approximately 60 minutes.
Incentive: $50 gift card