Invitation Paragraph
We want to figure out the best way to help parents/guardians support and encourage their young children’s creative use of technology. We need your help.
Before you decide if you want to help, it is important for you to understand why the research is being done and what taking part involves.
Please take time to read the following information carefully. Please ask us if there is anything that is not clear or if you would like more information.
After reading the following information, please click the ‘Consent to Participate’ button below
What is the purpose of the study?
Our research will investigate your experience of our training and your facilitation of our family workshops. We will use your answers to help improve that training and inform the design of the workshops.
To do this we collect information from you at several times through your participation and beyond.
- About you: Firstly, we ask you to give us contact details and some information about your previous experience so that we can arrange training sessions for you. We will also ask you a few questions about your personal information, which include country of birth, ethnicity, first language, highest level of education, experience with computing, etc.
- Workshop progress: We will be collecting some observations of what happens during the training sessions.
- Your reactions: We ask facilitators to tell us how each session went. This is done at the end of the session where we discuss the training and the family workshop design as a group.
All of these are designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the programme and are not a test!
Do I have to take part?
No. This is voluntary. Even if you decide to take part now, you are still free to change your mind at any time and without giving a reason. You can also decide to skip any questions you like.
What personal information do you collect?
We need to collect and store your contact details and track attendance to organise the training sessions. So, in order to attend, you will need to read this information leaflet and sign a consent form.. If you are taking part as the focus group family, there will be a post-workshop group interview which will be audio-recorded. However, all the identifiable data will be processed as soon as possible and deleted safely within one year of the study completion.
All the other data collection will be anonymous, and it is up to you to decide whether to take part. Even if you decide to take part now, you are still free to change your mind at any time and without giving a reason. You can also decide to skip any questions you like.
As long as you have completed the registration form, you will continue to receive the same level of support from us.
What will happen to me if I take part?
You will be asked to complete an online registration form where we will ask you for your contact details
In the form:
- There are questions that have choices and others where you write an answer.
- Unless we specifically ask for your contact details, do not mention yourself or other people by name – if you do by mistake, we will remove the names.
- You can stop at any time – simply close the browser window.
- You may skip any question, except those that collect the contact details that we need to organise your training.
- The form will take less than five minutes to complete.
We will also be observing what goes on during the sessions to see what works and what doesn’t. This may involve some audio recordings of group discussions. Personal information will not be collected during these observations or discussions.
What are the benefits of taking part?
You will benefit directly from taking part as we work together to improve the quality of the training we provide. You will also be benefitting the families who participate in the programme.
Keeping you and your data safe
Our team are Garda vetted which means we are approved to work with families and children.
Your privacy is important to us. Apart from the registration data which we need to organise the training sessions, any information we collect from you will not be linked to you or your location so that you cannot be identified.
We will store personal information on secure password-protected servers at Trinity College for up to 7 years. Only the project team will have access to it. No hard copies of the data will be stored.
The registration will have the name removed so that your identity remains confidential before it is shared with anyone outside the project team. We will never share the audio files with any third parties. If you decide to withdraw from the training, you may request that we delete the registration and data.
Since the rest of your data is fully anonymous, it is not possible to remove it after submission. If you are at all worried about how your data is kept, please get in touch and we can answer your questions.
It is very unlikely, but if we become aware of anything that may put a child at risk, we are legally required to report it to the appropriate authorities to ensure the child’s safety.
What will happen to the results of this research?
There may be media reporting, lectures, conference presentations and academic publications written as a result of this research, however you will not be identified.
What do I do if I have any further questions?
If you have any questions or concerns regarding your participation, please contact our project team at contact@ourkidscode.ie. They will be happy to answer any questions that you may have.
THANK YOU
This project is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the Department of Rural and Community Development and administered by the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin. The project team consists of Assistant Professor Nina Bresnihan, Assistant Professor Glenn Strong, Louise Caldwell, Mary O’Mahony, Dr Richard Millwood, and Dr Hao Lucy Liu from Trinity College Dublin.
Data Protection Information
| Data Controller | Trinity College Dublin |
| Data Protection Officer | Data Protection Officer Secretary’s Office Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland Email: dataprotection@tcd.ie Website: www.tcd.ie/privacy |
What is the lawful basis to use my personal data?
Information will only be used for this research study which aims to inform the development of the OurKidsCode Programme The legal basis for processing your personal data is Article 6(1)(e) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The legal basis for processing your sensitive personal data is Article 9(2)(j) GDPR.
What are my rights in relation to your use of my personal data?
You are entitled to request any of the rights below unless it would make it impossible or very difficult to carry out the research study:
- The right to access to your personal data;
- The right to receive a copy of your personal data;
- The right to ask us to restrict our use of your personal data;
- The right to ask us to correct inaccurate information about you; or
- The right to ask us to delete your personal data.
You are entitled to object to any further processing of the information we hold about you (except where it is de-identified). You can exercise these rights or learn more about data protection in relation to this study by contacting the Project Lead at Nina.Bresnihan@tcd.ie or the Trinity College Data Protection Officer (contact details above).
Please note that these rights relate to data which could identify you (personal data). If your data has been anonymised, we will not be able to access or delete it as we will have no way of being able to link the data to you.
If you are unhappy with how we have used your personal data, you can raise a concern with the Data Protection Commission via their online form – https://forms.dataprotection.ie/contact – or contact the Commission at:
Data Protection Commission
21 Fitzwilliam Square South
Dublin 2
D02 RD28
Ireland