About the EX-TRA project

Aims of the research

EX-TRA stands for Experimenting with City Streets to Transform Urban Mobility. The EX-TRA research project is studying street space experiments around London - temporary interventions transforming streets, from places for traffic, to places for people. The aim is to understand understand local people's perspectives and experiences regarding changes to street space.

The research is led by the University of Westminster.

For more information about the five other European cities studied as part of the project, visit our website: https://www.ex-tra-project.eu/.

Taking part in surveys on this website

This Commonplace contains two surveys with questions about your views and experiences of street spaces in Redbridge.

You have been invited to participate because you have a connection to Redbridge (e.g. resident, business owner) and our case study intervention in South Woodford. Anyone can take part, as long as they are over 13 years old.

After completing a survey, we will ask you for some personal information (e.g. postcode, age, gender identity) which helps us ensure a balanced and diverse group of participants has been reached. All questions are optional, and there is a ‘prefer not to say’ option for many questions.

Before deciding to take part, you may ask any questions by contacting the research team at extraproject@westminster.ac.uk. 

Do I have to take part? What if I change my mind?

No, participation is voluntary. If you decide to take part, you may change your mind and withdraw your participation at any point, for any reason. If you have begun to fill out one of the surveys, your responses will be stored by Commonplace even if you stopped half-way through and did not answer all the questions. To withdraw your responses, please email the EX-TRA team to let us know (extraproject@westminster.ac.uk). 

You can easily view and delete your personal information via the Commonplace user profile, please click here for instructions or email support@commonplace.is for help. 

How the information you provide will be used

In responding to the surveys, the information you provide will be analysed by the University of Westminster, for the purposes of academic research. This is a task we perform in the public interest. Responses may be used in academic publications, university teaching, reports produced for partner organisations (see below), and EX-TRA communications (e.g. our website).

How do I find out about research findings?

You will receive an email with a link to a Summary of Research Findings by the end of 2023, if you have consented to Commonplace emailing you with EX-TRA Project Updates (you will be asked this after completing the survey). At any time, you can opt-in our opt-out of Commonplace email communications via your user profile, for instructions click here.

Confidentiality and data-sharing

The full dataset with responses collected via this Commonplace will be confidential and will not be shared with anyone beyond a small team of researchers at the University of Westminster.

However, reports presenting data analysis and findings will be shared with selected partners of the EX-TRA project (see details on the Teams page by clicking here). As a respondent, you cannot be identified in these reports.

Access to and use of personal data

Personal data is collected and stored in compliance with GDPR data protection laws. The University of Westminster and Commonplace are joint Data Controllers of the personal data collected as part of the EX-TRA project and through this website.

All responses collected via Commonplace will be pseudonymised, which means that the data you provide will only be linked to a unique reference number [e.g. R0034].

The University of Westminster will not have access to information that can be used to identify you as an individual, such as your full name, full postcode and email address – this is only stored by Commonplace. 

The University will be analysing Commonplace responses in relation to the demographic information that you choose to provide (e.g. age, gender identity), to understand how responses differed between groups of people. 

The University will also be asking you optional questions about your ethnicity and disability, which counts as 'special category' data, and which you may choose not to provide. This cannot be linked to individual responses, and only Commonplace has access to it. Special category data is only used by the University to monitor, via a dashboard on Commonplace, how representative the profile of survey respondents is of the local census population, and to ensure a balanced and diverse group of respondents have been reached.

How will data be stored?

Data collected by Commonplace will be stored in their secure GDPR-compliant storage (see their Privacy Policy, including how long they might store your data). 

Data downloaded from Commonplace by the University of Westminster will be stored in the University’s managed environment, provided by Microsoft OneDrive. OneDrive is ISO 27001 and GDPR-compliant and allows for secure, encrypted data sharing between UoW researchers. Pseudonymised datasets will be shared with EU project partners via the University of Westminster’s managed Google Drive storage space.

All data resulting from the project will be preserved for at least 10 years, after which it will be deleted from the computer servers of the University and research team. However, pseudonymised datasets selected for preservation and sharing will be published as open data, on an online repository such as the UK Data Archive. This is a requirement of our research funders. It means other researchers can re-use the data we have collected.

Who do I contact if I have further questions or concerns?

If you have any questions about how the information you provide via this Commonplace website will be used for research, please contact the University of Westminster team at extraproject@westminster.ac.uk. The Principal Researcher for the project is Dr Enrica Papa, at the University of Westminster’s School of Architecture and Cities.

The data you have provided is stored on Commonplace servers, from where it is downloaded by the University. For questions about storage and protection of your data by Commonplace, please see the Commonplace Privacy Policy or contact support@commonplace.is.  

For questions about your personal information and your information rights, that have not been addressed by the EX-TRA team, please see the University’s data protection web pages or contact the Information Compliance Team at dpa@westminster.ac.uk. You have the right to complain in the event of a problem or perceived issue in the research study or with the research team, by emailing this team. For more information on the University of Westminster's Data Protection and Privacy policy, click here.