{"id":20292,"date":"2026-04-29T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/?page_id=20292"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:15:44","slug":"melanoma-research-buddies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/local-community\/curtin-involve\/current-involvement-opportunities\/melanoma-research-buddies\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanoma Research Buddies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Melanoma Research Lab at Curtin focuses on discovery research, hosting a range of projects with particular emphasis on how cells divide, migrate, and communicate with their environment, and how these processes contribute to melanoma progression. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The involvement opportunity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The research team would like to involve two people with lived experience of melanoma to work with them as Research Buddies. Research Buddies will meet with the team a couple of times per year to provide a lived experience perspective on the research programme. There may also be ad hoc review of documents or applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Skills and experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You need to have lived experience of melanoma yourself, or as the carer of someone with melanoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You will meet with the research team twice per year. There may also be ad hoc review of documents or applications a couple of times throughout the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meetings will be held in person on the Curtin Bentley campus or online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An honorarium of $50\/hour is provided. Support is offered by the Curtin Involve Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Applications close 29 May 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<mimas-block \n        block-name=\"button\"\n        \n        data-align=\"left\"\n        role=\"complementary\"\n        aria-label=\"Button block\"\n        data-segment=\"all\">\n\n    \n    \n<div class=\"block-heading hidden\"\n     data-segment=\"dom\"\n     data-style=\"\"\n     data-align=\"default\"\n>\n\n                                <h2 class=\"block-heading__title \" id=\"button-block\">Button block<\/h2>\n            \n                        \n                        \n            \n                <\/div>\n\n                    <a\n    href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/local-community\/curtin-involve\/current-involvement-opportunities\/#EOIform\"\n    class=\"button  button--deep-blue filled\"\n    target=\"_top\" aria-label=\"Apply now \">Apply now <\/a>\n    <\/mimas-block>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project The Melanoma Research Lab at Curtin focuses on discovery research, hosting a range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"parent":4050,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20292","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20322,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20292\/revisions\/20322"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/engage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}