A professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University (where I'm studying) is conducting research on community liveability. If you have a few minutes, you can access the survey here.
Details:
I and my research team have embarked upon an ambitious research project to solicit feedback from two million Canadians exploring what kinds of relationships we have within our communities.
You can participate in this unique research in two ways:
1. Complete the online Community Liveability Survey. If you would like to enter the early bird draw (exclusive to members of the RRU community) as well as the general draw for one of five iPod Shuffles, simple enter your @community.royalroads.ca address into the space provided. Your response is CONFIDENTIAL. Your e-mail address will be used only for the random draws - you will not be contacted unless you win.
2. Encourage your family, friends and colleagues to complete the survey and share the survey link http://www.survey.crcresearch.org/index.php?sid=2 with the members of their many communities. To see how broad the reach is of our RRU community network, we ask all to type “peacock” in the last question of the survey, forwarding the same request on to their networks.
Ultimately we hope the findings will shed light on the relationships between agency (individual capacity), social capital and sustainable community development.
For further details on the project, including your opportunity to win an iPod Shuffle, please see the brief survey outline following my signature block. Thank you - your responses could well help shape the world we leave to our children and grandchildren.
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Ann Dale, Trudeau Fellow
Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability Faculty of Social
and Applied Sciences Canada Research Chair on Sustainable Community
Development Royal Roads University
2005 Sooke Road, Victoria, BC, V9B 5Y2
http://trudeaufoundation.ca http://www.e-researchagenda.ca
http://www.oursafetynet.org
*THE SURVEY*
Regardless of geographic location, our communities are formed by the individual day-to-day choices we all make. Many of our decisions to live more sustainably are shaped by the community resources available to us such as public transit, access to shops and restaurants, water and sewer, friends and family, health care, schools, services for seniors, and recreational opportunities. But do we define communities or do they define us?
In order to fully understand what makes a community sustainable and how it functions, Dr. Dale's research team is looking not only at the geographic communities in which we live, but also the relational communities of which we are members such as those related to our career, profession, sports and social interests, disabilities and illnesses, religion, age, gender, hobbies, sex, cultural background, and of course the virtual communities in which we find ourselves. They are also exploring what access to sustainable infrastructure a community has and how that determines how people come together.
Five randomly chosen respondents will be selected at the end of the survey period to win an iPod Shuffle. Your response is CONFIDENTIAL. You will only be asked to identify yourself if you wish to register to win the iPod Shuffle and you will not be contacted by anyone unless you win.
All results from the survey will be published online at www.crcresearch.org as of Sept 2008, with continual updates as numbers dictate.
"The survey is a dynamic research tool and thus, we will continue to collect data as long as there is community interest" says Dr. Dale. "We are hoping that this data allows us to learn more about gaps in community perspectives and critical linkages between agency, social capital and sustainable community development that will lead to concrete policy recommendations by governments."
Posted by Paul at March 21, 2007 03:31 PM