In parallel, through an online survey and public engagement activities, the project. Why are you doing this work? How did you select me? Who are you?
Children, Cities and Climate provides new evidence on the potential co-benefits to child and adolescent health of improving urban environments, starting with air quality. We just want to ensure you know the following things:
Participation is completely voluntary; you don't have to take part and you can stop at any time
Your answers are anonymous – that means nobody will know who you are and nobod
y will be able to connect your answers back to you (including the researchers)
We will write research reports, blogs, and social media posts based on what we learn from all survey responses combined together
Storing and sharing data: We will keep your answers securely on our computers, and we might also share them with other scientists in the future too (we will never have or share any information that could identify you individually)
You will not get any reward or prize for taking part
FAQs
1. We are really keen to learn what children, young people and parents (and people who are soon to become parents) are doing during climate-change-related events, such as heat waves and during extreme air pollution. We also want to know what they think about their cities more generally. We think children’s experiences and opinions are not included enough and want to try to address this.
2. We want to hear from people who live in cities effected by heat waves and air pollution, who are children/young people, parents of children or expecting a baby. We paid for posts to appear in Facebook/Instagram feeds of people like you who live in cities that may have been, or soon may be, experiencing extreme heat or air pollution. (This is based on the information that Facebook/Instagram holds about you, not any information we have – we do not have, or have access to, any personal information at all).
3. Why do I not get anything in return for completing the survey? Firstly, this is a very short survey – it will probably only take you up to 2 minutes to complete it. Also, sending you a thank you for your time would require collecting personal information about you, like your phone number or email address; we don’t want to collect and store that information, so thought it would be simpler to simply THANK YOU for your time if you do decide to complete the survey.
4. We are researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (lead researchers Dr Rob Hughes), in the United Kingdom. This work is funded by the Botnar Foundation (which is based in Switzerland) and the Bernard Van Leer Foundation (which is based in the Netherlands).
5. How will you keep my answers private? Firstly, we are deliberately not collecting any personal information which could identify you from the many thousands of responses we’re hoping to collect. Secondly, all the responses are kept safely on a highly secure computer.
6. How can I contact you if I have questions? You can email the study lead Dr Rob Hughes at [email protected] if you have any questions about this survey.
