[junction29]

Hi Fellow Villagers,

One of our Granddaughters is doing a Master's Degree in Psychology, at Nottingham University in the UK, specialising in Victim Support for people who have suffered traumas, criminal, domestic, war etc.

As part of her research she is doing some survey's, one of which she has sent us to see if any Villagers would be happy to assist with.

It is completely confidential and takes about 5 minutes, if anyone has the time, your help would be appreciated.

It is for Men and Women and this is what she has sent us;


The following link is for an online questionnaire investigating public perceptions of sexual offences, focusing on rape. The questionnaire is part of a research project for a postgraduate student enrolled on a Forensic Psychology (MSc) course at the University of Nottingham.
The survey takes approximately 5-10 minutes to complete and participation is anonymous and confidential.
Your participation in this research would be greatly appreciated. If you would like to take part, please click the following link which will direct you to the questionnaire. By following the link you will also be provided with further information about the research, and contact details for the researcher (Jessica Andrews) and the supervisor of this study.

Due to the sensitive nature of this topic you must be 18 years of age or older to take part.
Your participation in this research will be welcomed and appreciated.
This research has been approved by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee at the University of Nottingham. Ethics Reference no: CFPf13022014 SoM PAPsych.


https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/nottingham/uporja-fop90

Thank you,

[redwitch]

Takes longer to log in than it does to answer the questionnaire, it seems. BTW -- for those who are hesitant, you do not have to be a victim of sexual assault to help this young lady.

[rayschic]

Originally Posted by redwitch

Takes longer to log in than it does to answer the questionnaire, it seems. BTW -- for those who are hesitant, you do not have to be a victim of sexual assault to help this young lady.

I did the survey, too. You just have to read one paragraph and answer 5 questions.

[junction29]

Originally Posted by rayschic

I did the survey, too. You just have to read one paragraph and answer 5 questions.

Many thanks for taking the time to complete the survey

[Taltarzac725]

That sounds like a worthwhile survey. As many know I have been interested in getting practical information to victims/survivors of crimes since learning about the 2-24-1976 murder of Michelle Mitchell, the daughter of my remedial English teacher Barbara Mitchell. This was near the University of Nevada, Reno nursing school where Michelle Mitchell was a student. I started looking in libraries in Reno, Nevada for something to help myself as well as my fellow Earl Wooster High School attendees cope and found next to nothing of any practical use. I have been looking in libraries all over the world on the Internet since then on-and-off as well as enlisting an army of people with similar concerns to help with assuring that there are practical materials accessible in libraries. This has been an obsession but not one that prevented me from getting four degrees- BA, BA, MA, JD.

If this survey helps in this regard. Great. I will take it.

Incidentally, I have been using the identifiers 224 and 613 to try to get a huge movement of people and associations interested in this massive project.

I have been very creative with whom I have contacted using these numbers 224 and 613 since mid-1993. I received 24 nominations to Marquis Who's Who publications between 1992 and 2002 and perhaps a couple hundred of invitations for vanity press publications as well.

Now, I see these identifiers 224 and 613 everywhere. Which does not help me with my projection of sanity. Especially when some Olympic Russian ice skater in February 2014 pulls a 224.59! My exact birthday. 2-24-1959.

I have contacted people over the years in almost every country as well. So, writing someone at the University of Nottingham might be just what my psychiatrist ordered. Just kidding! I have only really needed a psychiatrist during the two days or so I had and then tried to recover from a nervous breakdown in April of 2000 in Palm Harbor, Florida.

The survey does not take long. Cannot say anything more though because of the terms of the survey. You will have to take it for yourself.

[DougB]

Not sure how valid that survey will be. I would be shocked if we didn't all answer the same!

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by DougB

Not sure how valid that survey will be. I would be shocked if we didn't all answer the same!

Yes. But we are not supposed to talk about it. You might be unpleasantly surprised by the results. These should be interesting. I hope that the OP's granddaughter gets people from a lot of different ages as well as locations to take her survey.

[DougB]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Yes. But we are not supposed to talk about it. You might be unpleasantly surprised by the results. These should be interesting. I hope that the OP's granddaughter gets people from a lot of different ages as well as locations to take her survey.

OP, any chance of us getting the results when the survey is completed?

[junction29]

Originally Posted by DougB

OP, any chance of us getting the results when the survey is completed?

Hi DougB and everyone else,

I will ask her, but from what little she has told us, we think that this survey is just one amongst several that she is doing and then collating the various responses to arrive at some conclusions - we think!

If it helps to better understand victims, how they are affected by what they have gone through and how to help them get over it then we are all for it.

[junction29]

Originally Posted by DougB

OP, any chance of us getting the results when the survey is completed?

[rayschic]

Originally Posted by DougB

OP, any chance of us getting the results when the survey is completed?

DougB,
After you take the survey, it says if you want the results of the study, just send an email to the researcher and she will sent you the results when completed.

Researcher: Jessica Andrews
Contact Email: lwxja5@nottingham.ac.uk

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by junction29

Hi DougB and everyone else,

I will ask her, but from what little she has told us, we think that this survey is just one amongst several that she is doing and then collating the various responses to arrive at some conclusions - we think!

If it helps to better understand victims, how they are affected by what they have gone through and how to help them get over it then we are all for it.

That sounds good. I remember that it took a while for the results of the study I was in the Stress and Health Project at the UCSF Health Services Campus. This was a study on stress on the unemployed. I pushed quite hard in 1990-1991 about being honest about the niche in practical materials for survivors of crimes while still in the employ of the University of Minnesota Law Library and was met with suggestions that I see the University psychologist or that it looked like I needed to see a psychologist who as far as I know would be one approved by the University if I wanted to keep my job and references. I found this a nasty tactic of putting the issue on the person --shooting the messenger-- rather than addressing the issue of what materials they had in or accessible through their libraries.

In the UCSF Medical School study in 17 weeks in 1992-1993 I was subject #613 with a Researcher named Myra Young under the direction of Drs Frances Cohen, Leonard Zegans, Kathleen Kearney and M.P.H. Wendy Berland.

I mentioned all these experiences at the University of Minnesota Law School Library during the four taped interviews with Myra Young who said nothing during the 17 weeks about all my suffering for basically just being honest about a niche in services for victims in the area of law librarianship. After the last interview was done and so as not to influence the amount of chemicals in my blood from the stress of being unemployed, Ms. Young told me I had a good cause.

I started using #613 that summer of 1993 along with my birthday of 224 to try to shine a spotlight about using labels of mental illness or the hint of mental illness to cover up problems in some institutions policies or other matters. Of course, I also wanted to address the issue of access to practical materials which are in the various libraries in the US.

So, I do really think that this study by your granddaughter will help. I had written victimologists in the UK and elsewhere in the 90s.

Of course, I had to also face extreme discrimination for writing so many people as it really put my former employer in a very bad light. The University of Minnesota Law School professors had voted not to renew my employment contract but I do remember some of them fighting to keep me on even though my grades were not all that good. I had been a Student Director for Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners (LAMP), however, and it was quite obvious I could be objective about helping library patrons find their needed materials as well as help prisoners at Minnesota Correctional Facility--Stillwater with their various civil problems. The University of Minnesota Law School (Class of 1989) was ranked around 17th in the US according to a number of different surveys in 1986. So, even though I was near the bottom of my law school graduated class of 1989 there were a huge number of law students in lesser ranked law schools whom I had bested in the LSAT to get into a very well ranked law school. I had also worked my way through law school at the Minneapolis Public Library, one summer at Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners and then at the University of Minnesota Law Library.

I am still paying off my law school loans even though my 25th Law School Re-union will be this year (2014). Cannot really say I have much of a desire to go. I was kind of abandoned by my law school friends as they did not want to have to face the wrath of the University of Minnesota Law School or at least the appearance of this wrath as I got the impression that some of the law school professors were still fighting for me. I was never really sure just whom I could trust there at the University of Minnesota Law School however.

[junction29]

Originally Posted by junction29

Hi Fellow Villagers,

One of our Granddaughters is doing a Master's Degree in Psychology, at Nottingham University in the UK, specialising in Victim Support for people who have suffered traumas, criminal, domestic, war etc.

As part of her research she is doing some survey's, one of which she has sent us to see if any Villagers would be happy to assist with.

It is completely confidential and takes about 5 minutes, if anyone has the time, your help would be appreciated.

It is for Men and Women and this is what she has sent us;


The following link is for an online questionnaire investigating public perceptions of sexual offences, focusing on rape. The questionnaire is part of a research project for a postgraduate student enrolled on a Forensic Psychology (MSc) course at the University of Nottingham.
The survey takes approximately 5-10 minutes to complete and participation is anonymous and confidential.
Your participation in this research would be greatly appreciated. If you would like to take part, please click the following link which will direct you to the questionnaire. By following the link you will also be provided with further information about the research, and contact details for the researcher (Jessica Andrews) and the supervisor of this study.

Due to the sensitive nature of this topic you must be 18 years of age or older to take part.
Your participation in this research will be welcomed and appreciated.
This research has been approved by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee at the University of Nottingham. Ethics Reference no: CFPf13022014 SoM PAPsych.


https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/nottingham/uporja-fop90

Thank you,

A Big thank you to everyone who took the survey, our Granddaughter has just told us that with TV's help it has reached the target number, however, this is only one of several and she has asked if we could open another one with TOTV as it quickly lifted her numbers, so here it is.

She has stressed that if you did the other one, you should NOT do this one, please don't ask me why, she did try to explain it but it just went over our heads! - something to do with bias and effecting original opinion!! - but there again, we are not doing the Master's Degree!

https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/nottingham/uporjafop-90

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by rayschic

DougB,
After you take the survey, it says if you want the results of the study, just send an email to the researcher and she will sent you the results when completed.

Researcher: Jessica Andrews
Contact Email: lwxja5@nottingham.ac.uk

I will also contact her. I do not need to go into the 224 613 international victims' rights project I have been involved with in some way since February of 1976. I am pretty sure this is fairly well known to many-- especially to people concerned about survivors of crimes-- unless I am way off base.

Originally Posted by junction29

A Big thank you to everyone who took the survey, our Granddaughter has just told us that with TV's help it has reached the target number, however, this is only one of several and she has asked if we could open another one with TOTV as it quickly lifted her numbers, so here it is.

She has stressed that if you did the other one, you should NOT do this one, please don't ask me why, she did try to explain it but it just went over our heads! - something to do with bias and effecting original opinion!! - but there again, we are not doing the Master's Degree!

https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/nottingham/uporjafop-90

Hope that your granddaughter is successful with this section as well. I am not taking it as I took the first one.

[junction29]

Dear all,
Many thanks for all the help with our Granddaughters surveys.
Thanks to a surge of help from TV, she has reached the target of participants and the surveys are now closed.
Kind regards and thank you all again.