Invitation to participate in a research survey
I am Helen Wilson, a third year part-time PHD student at the University of Worcester. I am planning a piece of research titled:
Working with Upper Key Stage 2 teachers to plan a school classroom intervention about inclusion in our digital society.
As part of this research I’m conducting an initial online survey to help me prepare for the study.
Who is this survey for?
I am seeking a minimum of 50 participant responses from teachers across the UK.
Participants in this study:
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must be teachers from Upper Key Stage 2 (Years 5 or 6), the survey will ask you to confirm this at the beginning before revealing the questions
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teachers can be from any type of school setting including both mainstream and specialist provision
What is the survey about?
The topic of digital accessibility awareness and how to be inclusive in our digital society may not be a subject you are familiar with, that doesn't matter.
Through the survey I'm keen to find out what you know (or don't know) about the subject.
To help you, this is what the survey is referring to by using the term digital accessibility awareness.
How will your input help?
There is currently no identified academic research or data that specifically identifies what school teachers know (or don't know) about digital accessibility. By participating in the survey you will be providing some of this missing information.
Why is this important?
Understanding what teachers currently know (or don’t know) will be used to inform a teacher training component for the wider digital accessibility research study.
The wider research study intends to work directly with Upper Key Stage 2 teachers to plan and pilot the teaching of digital accessibility awareness in the classroom.
More broadly this research aims to contribute to education that raises pupil awareness about inclusion in our digital society.
This invite is only asking you to participate in the survey, not the wider research study.
Completing the survey
What to expect from the survey:
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the survey is aimed at anyone who teaches pupils at Upper Key Stage 2
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the survey has a total of 30 questions, most are multiple-choice or multi-selection questions, four are open ended and one is optional
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it is anonymous, and no personal details or IP addresses will be collected
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it will take approximately 15 - 20 minutes to complete
You can complete the survey by clicking on the button below:
Further information
The questionnaire will be open until 11:59pm 31 July 2025.
Full information about the PHD research project.
If you would like to know more about the purpose of the research or want a copy of the research results at the end of the project, please contact me using the email wilh5_22@uni.worc.ac.uk.
This research has had ethical approval from the University of Worcester Research Ethics Panel.
To accompany this survey, there is a detailed participant information sheet (PDF)
Thank you for your time to support this project.