Call for Participants: Size Acceptance Survey
10 Jun
Posting this on behalf of Michaela — if you have any questions, please contact her. — Kate
Hi, my name is Michaela A. Null, and I am a doctoral student in Sociology at
Purdue University. I am doing a study about the embodiment of size-accepting fat
women, with attention to the ways in which gender, race, sexual orientation, and
body size intersect.
I am currently looking for individuals who are interested in volunteering to
participate in my study. If you are interested in volunteering to participate in
an interview, I ask that take an electronic informational survey, which will
take approximately 5 minutes. Please go here and complete the
informational survey. After all survey data has been collected, participants
will be selected for interviews, which will be conducted in-person, by phone, or
via internet chat, and will last between an hour and an hour and a half.
Participation is voluntary and participants must be at least 18 years old.
This project has been approved by my university’s Institutional Review Board,
which protects human subjects of research. I will provide confidentiality to all
volunteers and participants will be referred to by a pseudonym in all research
documents.
If you have any questions regarding this study, you can contact me at
mnull@purdue.edu. For more information on me, you can access my university
profile here . You can also contact Professor Eugene Jackson, Assistant Professor of Sociology
at Purdue University, at jacksone@purdue.edu.
Sincerely,
Michaela A. Null, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, Purdue University
Just to save any other non-USians clicking the link – it’s for US participants only.
I went and filled out the survey; I’m happy to help!
Ahhh, thanks for the warning. Wish I could have helpe :/
Filled it out! Sounds like a fascinating project and I am happy to help.
I filled it out; it sounds like a cool project. I hope we get the chance to read it when it’s done.
Yes, I regret that I am only able to interview people in the U.S. at this time. And for a dissertation, I have to keep the project manageable. However, I do plan to expand the study in the future. Several people outside the U.S. have taken the survey and at the end there is a box to check whether or not you’d like to be contacted for further research if you are not selected for an interview at this time.
I also wasted some time filling out the first page, finding out too late that it’s for US residents only. It would be really nice to add that more visibly to the starting page and maybe this post.
Don’t worry, it’s not just you, EVERYONE seems to forget that the internet is not just for north americans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users
I can’t promise anyone will agree to participate, but I will ask my fat female patients to take a look at your survey. I think a few will be interested.
The survey appears to be closed; I hope it’s because Ms. Null got a huge number of participants in a short time. :)
closeeddd!
did anyone notice wordpress just changed? i can’t find anything in my dashboard anymore. what the hell?