CQUniversity Australia is seeking Proposals for a suitably experienced contractor to conduct in-home Food Waste social research at a national level to gain a deeper understanding of Australian households’ food waste in terms of segments, quantities, values, categories of food wasted and associated attitudes and behaviors. We would welcome applications from suitably qualified consortia to undertake this research.

In the case of consortia applications please nominate a lead organization for the purposes of contracting and highlight the roles and responsibilities of each organization within the consortium..

This piece of research will provide evidence on how much food waste is generated in Australian homes, how this varies depending on community knowledge, attitudes and behaviors around household food provisioning management and food waste and will help to evaluate the effectiveness of the Nationwide Consumer Behavior Change Campaign (NCBCC).

The research will be used to inform FFW Ltd and other interested parties on the level of awareness, attitudes, behaviors, habits and state of knowledge on food in differing segments in the community with regard to household food waste, the composition of household food waste; where the most waste occurs, and where the greatest potential to change behaviors and attitudes, to reduce and divert food waste exists. Furthermore, the research will provide evidence-based recommendations to develop/modify future behavior change campaigns.

The research project consists of; Stage 1: gathering and presenting baseline data and Stage 2: three subsequent data collection surveys to track the progress that is being made in the NCBCC. Reporting requirements - Supply of cleansed raw data for all surveys, draft presentation of all survey findings for approval, and subsequent, edited final reports, followed by presentations in PowerPoint format. The final report to be submitted as a MS Word document.