Investigating a transition to sustainable diets.
Purpose of this study
This research seeks to study and further understand consumers’ transition towards sustainable diets and what part meat alternatives can play in this.
The questions have been written with those who eat meat (omnivores) as intended respondents. We expect around 200 people to complete this questionnaire.
This research is being completed as part of a MSc Sustainability at Anglia Ruskin University and is carried out by Scott Grant under the supervision of Dr. Roberto Pasqualino. This research has ethical approval from an ethics committee at Anglia Ruskin University.
You may refuse to take part and do not need to give a reason for non-participation. You will gain no monetary benefit from taking part in this research, the main benefit is likely to be educational, for the researcher and possibly yourself as a participant. The results of this research will be used in the researcher’s MSc Sustainability dissertation, and could be used in further academic publications.
Contact for further information: sg1319@student.aru.ac.uk
Your participation
The survey process should take between fifteen and twenty (15-20) minutes. You will be asked a series of questions, mostly multiple choice but with the opportunity to add more detail if you wish in some places. Your answers will remain anonymous as you will not be asked to provide your name or contact details. Responses to open ended survey questions may be used as quotes, anonymously, in reports.
There is a risk to your confidentiality if what you say makes it possible to identify you in a quote, but attempts will be made to avoid this including removing the names of any people or organisations.
You may withdraw from the research at any point whilst you are completing the survey by closing the browser window. Once you have clicked ‘Finish’ it will no longer be possible to withdraw from the research because your response will be anonymous, and the researcher will not be able to distinguish your response from that of others. Your responses will be securely held on a password protected computer and backed up on an encrypted hard drive.
Anglia Ruskin University is the data controller for this research. Under the General Data Protection Requirement (GDPR), 2016 I wish to inform you that I will be collecting the following personal information: age, gender, and dietary habits. Raw data will be deleted by 30/09/22.
Online Surveys Privacy notice is available at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/website/privacy-notice
Our general privacy notice explaining our use of your personal data for research purposes is available here:
https://www.anglia.ac.uk/privacy-and-cookies/research-participants
Please visit this link for information about how long we keep your data, how we keep your data secure, how you can exercise your rights over your data, and make a complaint over our use of your data.
If you have any complaints about the study, you can contact roberto.pasqualino@aru.ac.uk (supervisor) in the first instance. You may also contact Anglia Ruskin University’s complaints procedure via: complaints@anglia.ac.uk
