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Yes, StepUp for Dementia Research runs a short news item on every study added to the system. This helps encourage new volunteers who might be particularly interested in your research. Our communications team will contact you to discuss what information will be needed.

The CI will need to provide the study’s ethics application and approval letter, as well as the volunteer information sheet (aka. Participant Information Statement) and study protocol. Further, a lay summary of the study will need to be provided, according to StepUp...

This depends on factors such as when the next researcher training session is held, and whether a DAA has already been signed with your organisation. You should normally expect this process to take two to eight weeks.

Yes. Access to StepUp for Dementia Research is strictly controlled and limited to authorised researchers. As part of your training, StepUp for Dementia Research will explain the rules and procedures and provide you with access to all appropriate usage protocols. You...

To use StepUp for Dementia Research you will need to ensure that your study has the appropriate ethics approval from a Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC). If you have not yet applied for ethics approval, you will need to state that you will be recruiting...

Once you login to StepUp for Dementia Research with your research user account, you will be able to submit a study registration form. StepUp for Dementia Research administration will contact you to arrange for your user training online, face-to-face or via web video....

Please submit your Research user account registration form via here.Your organisation will need to sign a Data Access Agreement (DAA) with the University of Sydney and each Chief Investigator (CI) must acknowledge the Account User and Confidentiality Terms. The StepUp...

StepUp for Dementia Research aims to sign up thousands of volunteers who want to be involved in dementia research. The service helps researchers to improve study recruitment.

StepUp for Dementia Research is a matching service which allows people to register their interest in dementia research, so that they can be contacted about relevant research studies. The aims are to make study recruitment more efficient and improve volunteer access to...