You are invited to participate in a research study entitled USask Mobility Survey. Data collected through this survey will be used in the research being conducted by Professor Ehab Diab from the University of Saskatchewan, Geography and Planning Department. Your participation is greatly appreciated and gives you a chance to enter a draw for prizes, including:
- 1 Apple Watch Series 11
- 2 AirPods 4
- Amazon gift card (8 prizes)
- USask Bookstore gift card (8 prizes)
- Tim Horton gift certificates (8 prizes)
By participating in this draw, you consent to provide your institutional email address for entry purposes. Please note that sets of responses suspected to be fraudulent or submitted multiple times by the same respondent will not be eligible for entry into the draw.
What is the survey about?
With a bit of your time, you can help us in understanding how the USask community comes to the campus, uses different modes, and perceives different aspects related to commuting to USask. Our goal is to assess how different perceived barriers are related to a wide array of socioeconomic, transport system, built environment, and other contextual factors for different groups of people.
The website survey platform used for this study is LimeSurvey. This software uses servers that are located in Canada. Response data is stored in a database, which will require a dedicated username and password for each LimeSurvey Cloud access instance, in this case, created and managed by the researchers. For more information about privacy policy visit https://www.limesurvey.org/privacy-policy
Who is doing the survey?
The data will be collected by Aleena Akram (aleena.akram@mail.usask.ca), a graduate student from the USask Geography and Planning Department. The research is under the supervision of Ehab Diab (ehab.diab@usask.ca), Assistant Professor in the USask Geography and Planning Department in collaboration with the USask Sustainability Office and USask Parking and Transportation Services. Dr. Diab is the project’s principal investigator (PI).
This survey will take approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete. Participation is voluntary, and you may exit the survey at any time. Completing the survey indicates consent to participate in this study. Please be advised that once your survey has been submitted, you will be unable to withdraw. The only exception is if you have received a personalized email invitation to complete the survey, or you provided us with your email to have a chance to enter a draw for prizes. In this case, you can reach the Project PI (ehab.diab@usask.ca) to withdraw from the survey after submitting it.
All data will be stored on OneDrive for five years and locally on a password-protected computer in Dr. Ehab Diab’s office at USask. The data will be retained for five years post-publication. Once the required storage period is completed, and the data is no longer needed, it will be destroyed using methods that prevent recovery.
Privacy
All survey responses will remain confidential, and participants will not be identified in any publications or reports. A random unique code for each survey response will be developed while removing any information that can help identify the respondent. A separate encrypted dataset will include people’s email addresses and postal codes, with the random identification code, which will be stored in an encrypted computer managed by the project PI. No one will have access to this encrypted dataset, except for the project PI. After the five years period is done, the master list with the emails will be destroyed after giving the prizes.
The data collected from this survey will serve various academic purposes. It will contribute to a thesis, be presented at academic conferences and community meetings, and form the basis for academic papers and reports. Reports that include the results of this survey will be publicly accessible by July 2026 and will be shared on the PI’s website and the USask Sustainability Office’s website. So stay tuned!
All data will be presented in an aggregated or summarized manner to ensure anonymity. Some qualitative results will be supported by direct quotes from open-ended questions. It's important to emphasize that no personal information or names will be associated with the reported results. Any direct quotes used will be anonymized and de-identified, maintaining complete confidentiality. Any personal information collected as a record of honorarium payment will be stored separately from the data by the PI and may be kept for 7 years in case the University of Saskatchewan is subjected to a financial audit.
This research project has been approved on ethical grounds by the University of Saskatchewan Behavioural Research Ethics Board (Ethics Approval Number: 4281). Any questions regarding your rights as a participant may be addressed to that committee through the Research Ethics Office: ethics.office@usask.ca ; 306-966-2975; out-of-town participants may call toll-free 1-888-966-2975.
Contact Information
If by answering any question of this survey you feel any psychological or emotional distress, please reach out to the Student Affairs and Outreach team at 306-966-5757 (student.outreach@usask.ca) or USask Wellness Services at 306-966-4580 (wellnessresources@usask.ca). You can also reach Dr. Ehab Diab at ehab.diab@usask.ca if you have any distress situation caused by any question of the survey. For after-hours support, please contact Saskatoon Mobile Crisis at 306-933-6200 or Crisis Services Canada at 1-833-456-4566.
By completing and submitting this survey, YOUR FREE AND INFORMED CONSENT IS IMPLIED and indicates that you understand the above conditions of participation in this study. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this research project, please send an email to ehab.diab@usask.ca
Thanks a lot for your participation!