Schedule Your PeerPlate Path
Choose the part of The PeerPlate Project you are interested in .Focus Group registration is open now. Expressions of interest are available for later stages.
All registration and scheduling links will take you to the approved project system. This website does not collect participant information.
The focus groups are part of a larger PhD project developing the PeerPlate Program.
Focus groups are for adults aged 18 years or older in Western Australia with experience or connection to professional mental health peer work or lived experience workforce roles. You do not need to be currently employed or contracted in a peer worker role to express interest in a focus group.
Upcoming Sessions
Ways to get involved
PeerPlate Focus Groups
Registrations open now
Share your experience of food, nutrition, and peer work.
Focus Groups are 90-minute online discussions for people with experience of, or a connection to, mental health peer work in Western Australia.
Taking part will depend on the stage of the project. Focus Groups involve one online discussion. Design Workshops involve a small number of online workshops. The PeerPlate Program will involve taking part in the nutrition education program and providing feedback.
Before you register, you will be given the study information for that stage so you can decide whether it is right for you.
Time commitment:
One 90-minute online group discussion.
Register for a Focus Group Here
PeerPlate Design Workshops
Expressions of interest open
Build nutrition education as peer workers, for peer workers.
Design Workshops will bring peer workers and researchers together to design the PeerPlate Program. This includes shaping the topics, language, format, activities, and resources, then reviewing the program before it is delivered.
Estimated time commitment:
Approximately 3–5 online workshops, about 90 minutes each. Final details will be confirmed before registration opens.
Express Interest in Design Workshops Here
PeerPlate Program
Expressions of interest open
Be part of nutrition education built by peer workers, for peer workers.
The PeerPlate Program is the food and nutrition education program being developed through the project. Peer workers will take part in live online interactive workshops and provide feedback on whether the program is useful, practical, and suitable for peer work.
Estimated time commitment:
The program is expected to run as a pilot in 2027. Session number and timing will be confirmed before registration opens.
Express Interest in the PeerPlate Program Here
Is this for me?
Focus groups are for adults aged 18 years or older in Western Australia with experience or connection to professional mental health peer work or lived experience workforce roles. You do not need to be currently employed or contracted in a peer worker role to express interest in a focus group.
About The PeerPlate Project
The PeerPlate Project is a PhD research project for the professional mental health peer workforce.
PeerPlate is for the peer workforce first. It focuses on peer workers’ own food and nutrition literacy, confidence, and practical food skills. Later stages will explore how this learning may relate to peer work practice, while staying within professional peer work boundaries.
It is building food and nutrition education with peer workers, for peer workers. The project begins with Focus Groups, where people connected to mental health peer work identify what the program needs to understand about food, nutrition, and peer work. These findings will be combined with a review of the existing research, then used in the PeerPlate Design Workshops to design the PeerPlate Program.
When you follow a registration or expression of interest link, you will leave this website and use the approved project form. This website provides project information only and does not collect participant information.