Supporting students to navigate social media and algorithms

About the study

 
This survey aims to better understand how staff in secondary schools help students to navigate social media and content recommendation algorithms. Your responses will help us identify what support teachers need to feel confident in teaching these increasingly important topics. The study is funded by the Molly Rose Foundation and led jointly by Molly Rose Foundation and the University of Bristol.

Molly Rose Foundation is a charitable foundation focused on suicide prevention and online safety for under 25s. It was set up by the family and friends of Molly Russell, who died by suicide at age 14 after being repeatedly exposed to harmful online content.

If you have any questions about the study, please contact one of the researchers:
Lizzy Winstone: lizzy.winstone@bristol.ac.uk
Rowan Ferguson: r.ferguson@mollyrosefoundation.org

This study has been reviewed by the University of Bristol's Health Sciences Ethics Board (Ref: 27288). If you have any concerns please direct them to the Health Sciences Ethics Board at
research-governance@bristol.ac.uk

What's involved?

This survey is for teachers and staff working in secondary schools across England and Wales.

● The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete.

● All responses you provide will be anonymous. We will not collect or store any personally identifiable information. All research data will be stored securely and used for research purposes only, in accordance with data protection regulations (UK GDPR).

● Participation is completely voluntary, and you can skip any questions you prefer not to answer.

Why take part?

Your experience and expertise is vital to help us shape and improve training and support for teaching young people about social media and algorithms in a way that protects and benefits their mental health and wellbeing. Survey findings will be used to influence Government policy around online media literacy education.  

Do I have to take part?

You don't have to take part in this survey, it is entirely voluntary. Once you start it you can withdraw at any time by simply closing the browser window - your data will not be kept.
Once you have submitted the survey at the end, this will indicate that you have consented for us to keep your data, and after that point we will not be able to delete it because it is anonymous.

Data Storage

Any information used in the administering of this survey, for example email addresses if you were invited to participate directly by email, will be destroyed at the end of the study.
Study data will be stored securely on the University of Bristol file store and long-term on the Research Data Storage Facility (RDSF). Study data will be retained for at least 20 years after completion of the study. Any free-text responses that contain potentially identifying information will be destroyed before the data is shared. Your data will be processed in accordance with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and University of Bristol guidelines.

Data Sharing

The anonymised research data will be published as Open Data via the University of Bristol Research Data Repository, data.bris. This means the anonymised research data (with any free-text responses removed) will be openly available to download. The research data may be used for purposes not related to this study but it will not be possible to identify participants from these data.

Consent

By clicking 'yes', you confirm you are at least 18 years old, have read and understood the above information, and give your consent to voluntarily participate in this study.

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