Anyone interested in ED Researh participation?

[Nicola Green]

WEF@Home

OpenLab

Newcastle University

WEF@Home is a short-term research project that is looking at how people use Water, Energy and Food (WEF) in their homes.

WEF@Home is part of a wider project across a number of UK Universities that looks at the use of physical resources and the possible impact of that use on our living environments. We are looking to recruit London households to work with us over a period of around eight weeks to think about how households ? singles, couples, house-shares and families ? organise their WEF routines in their everyday lives. We are able to offer incentives of up to ?100 in supermarket/food vouchers (in two instalments of ?35 [Phase 1 four weeks] and ?65 [Phase 2 four weeks]) as recompense for the time a household and all its members might devote to the project.

The research would involve daily activities for around 5 minutes (e.g. meter readings and collection of food receipts), and a weekly activity for around 20-30 minutes (e.g. a diary reflection on WEF for the day/week, amongst other activities). The research would also involve three estimated 90 minute interviews at the beginning, the middle and the end of the project.

If you have any questions about the project, please don?t hesitate to contact us.

If you wish to take part in the project, then we would be very happy to hear from you on the contact details below:

Dr Nicola Green

Research Associate

OpenLab

Newcastle University

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07976 791 345

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[email protected]

[email protected]

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https://wefhome.wordpress.com

http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/wefwebs/aboutus/

https://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/people/nng37/

https://digitalcivics.io/people/nicola-green/

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/nicolagreen2.html#background

[Robert Poste's Child]

Given you're in Newcastle, perhaps you could add something about why you're focusing on London and why you're targeting this area?

It would be useful to know who's funding the study as well and whether the data will be treated anonymously.

[Nicola Green]

Hello Robert Poste's Child,

All very relevant questions, thank you for bringing them up for clarification. :-)

First up, I am not actually "in" Newcastle - I work for Newcastle University, but I actually live in the Southeast - at the moment, in Surrey to be precise. But even before that I lived for almost a decade in London, and in South London in particular - in Brixton and Streatham mostly. At the same time, I also had networks of relationships all over Southeast London, from teaching briefly at Goldsmiths, to my brother bringing up a burgeoning family in Dulwich, to friends throughout the Peckham and Dulwich areas - so when I got handed a brief to 'do a London sample', I thought of all the interesting places in South London that I really loved a lot.

There is a London sample because that is what the brief for the project originally specified to the funding bodies - if you follow the Glasgow link at the bottom of the message, that will take you through to the UK-wide project website and all the Universities involved. The project overall is funded by the EPSRC - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - which is a public body - and absolutely nothing to do with any commercial research whatsoever.

You ask about anonymity - YES, we guarantee confidentiality to all of our research participants. Personally, I wouldn't be part of any project otherwise.

Again for anyone, if you send me a quick email note, then I can send you back an attachment (or more than one)that gives you more detail, and more information about options than I can give you on a thread.

But I hope that sharing some background gives a small space of understanding about why I would like to talk to people in the great South London Republics. :-)

Enjoy our tiny bit of current summer :-)

Nicola