Research Lunch Club in Sydney
Sydney pairs top universities and medical research institutes with one of the world's most successful tech scenes. Research Lunch Club matches you into a small group of Sydney researchers for lunch, once a month. No conference, no awkward mixer — just three people who do the work, over a good meal, for the cost of a coffee a quarter.
📍 Real researchers, real lunch
Who's in the Sydney group
Our Sydney members include researchers from the University of Sydney, UNSW and UTS, teams at Atlassian, Canva and Google, and institutes like CSIRO and the Garvan Institute. UX researchers, software engineers, medical scientists, social scientists — Sydney's table runs from the labs to the harbour-side tech offices.
Researchers from across Sydney
A sense of where Sydney members spend their days — the universities, institutes and companies they come from.
Where Sydney members meet
Sydney groups meet across the inner city: Camperdown and Darlington for the University of Sydney, Kensington and Randwick for UNSW and the medical institutes, Ultimo for UTS, and the CBD and Surry Hills for the tech crowd. Your group picks a lunch spot — a café, a food court, somewhere with a bit of sun.
Third-wave coffee, Sydney-style
Lunch has a way of running into coffee. A few independent, third-wave spots Sydney researchers gravitate to — chains need not apply.
Single O
Surry Hills
Campos Coffee
Newtown
Mecca Coffee
Alexandria
🍝 Three researchers, one table
How Research Lunch Club works in Sydney
You get matched
Every month we pair you with two other researchers in Sydney — deliberately across disciplines and career stages, so the conversation goes somewhere new.
Your group picks a day & a spot
You sort the time and place together in the member app — a lunch that works for all three of you, somewhere easy in the city.
You meet for lunch
Show up, swap notes, and build the kind of relationship that outlasts a conference badge. Most Sydney groups keep in touch long after.
Your first lunch is on us
Snap a photo at the table and tag us on LinkedIn or Instagram — we'll cover your first lunch. Our way of saying welcome.
Pricing & the 90-day guarantee
The cost of a coffee
£5 a quarter, and you can cancel anytime. The lunch itself you pay for at the table.
A fresh match monthly
Two new Sydney researchers every month you're a member.
90-day guarantee
Not feeling the lunches in your first 90 days? We'll refund your membership.
First lunch on us
Tag us in a photo from your first lunch and we'll cover it.
☕ Lunch that ran into coffee
Sydney researcher FAQ
Usually around Camperdown, Kensington, Ultimo or the CBD and Surry Hills — close to where members work and study. You sort the day and the spot in the member app.
Other Sydney-based researchers across fields and seniority — University of Sydney, UNSW and UTS academics alongside UX and software researchers at Atlassian, Canva and Google and scientists at CSIRO and Garvan. Deliberately mixed.
Each month we group Sydney members into threes, mixing disciplines and career stages and avoiding repeat pairings. A fresh group every month you're a member.
Definitely — Sydney's tech scene means many members are UX, product and applied researchers. If research is your work, you belong at the table.
About the price of a coffee a quarter — £5, cancel anytime. Lunch is on you at the table; your first one is on us.
More on meeting other researchers
Join researchers in Sydney
The cost of a coffee a quarter. Cancel anytime. Your first lunch is on us.