Survey our Membership

Request to Survey our Membership

Each year the College receives numerous requests to survey the RANZCOG membership. Only a small number of these applications are approved as RANZCOG is mindful to not overburden the membership and ensure that each survey is appropriate and relevant for the RANZCOG membership.

The College reviews requests from other medical Colleges and external third parties for the College to facilitate the distribution of surveys as per the survey approval process. Successful applicants will be contacted.

For enquiries related to surveys, please email RANZCOG Women’s Health Foundation foundation@ranzcog.edu.au with the subject title: SURVEY.

Evaluation criteria

When evaluating your request to survey our membership, the following are taken into consideration:

The purpose of the survey
The length of the survey
Construction of survey and how it works, should the questions become specific to various group types
The survey is appropriate for the RANZCOG membership
The survey topic is relevant to the Fellowship and/or the wider public
The survey topic is an important issue
The survey has ethics approval
The dissemination of the survey is practical
There is limited data already on the topic
Potential results of the survey hold benefits for women’s health consumers
The quality of the survey’s presentation is of a sufficiently high standard
The appropriate membership target group is surveyed
The potential outcome of the survey does not place the College at risk
The survey results are made available to RANZCOG within a timely manner

The purpose of the survey
The length of the survey
Construction of survey and how it works, should the questions become specific to various group types
The survey is appropriate for the RANZCOG membership
The survey topic is relevant to the Fellowship and/or the wider public
The survey topic is an important issue
The survey has ethics approval

The dissemination of the survey is practical
There is limited data already on the topic
Potential results of the survey hold benefits for women’s health consumers
The quality of the survey’s presentation is of a sufficiently high standard
The appropriate membership target group is surveyed
The potential outcome of the survey does not place the College at risk
The survey results are made available to RANZCOG within a timely manner

Apply

Before submitting your application, please read through the application process steps:

1. Submission

Ensure ethics approval is in place
Review the RANZCOG Survey Request Policy and Procedure
Complete the relevant survey request application form:
- Australia – Request to Survey
- Aotearoa New Zealand – Request to Survey

Please note that a non-refundable fee for cost of submission is $120 AUD ex GST or $140 NZD ex GST.

2. Approval

The survey is considered by the Foundation Research Committee Chair for review and approval. If the survey requires full committee approval, the application will be considered at the next Research Grants Committee meeting.

We will communicate the outcome of your survey application to be approved, conditionally approved subject to minor changes, or not approved.

3. Survey Distribution

If the survey is approved for distribution, we will ask you to complete a declaration form and pay a distribution fee of $700 AUD ex GST or $850 NZD ex GST. You are eligible to apply for a $100 refund based on the grounds that you provide RANZCOG with post-survey data. Please email foundation@ranzcog.edu.au when you have the data ready to share.

The survey will be forwarded to our Communications and Public Affairs team to schedule distribution. The survey may be distributed up to 12 months after approval or 24 months after for trainee research projects, please check with the team for further details and timelines.

4. Final Check

Immediately prior to distribution, the team will check the survey to ensure the survey content has not changed from the approved version. Any changes (including minor wording edits) must be approved by the Committee Chair.

Changes made to the survey may delay distribution times if they have not been submitted for prior approval.