The PuddleWatch Project
You are invited to send in puddle photos for a research project. Before deciding, you should understand why we're doing the research and what your submission involves. Please read this information carefully. Feel free to discuss it with others. If you have questions or need more information, email us at PuddleWatch@hull.ac.uk. Take your time to decide if you want to participate. Thanks for considering this.
About this project
Flooding from surface water is a big risk in the UK, but it's difficult to pinpoint where puddles form using usual methods. So, this project uses photos of puddles from the public to track where and when they appear in public places, their size, and how locals interact with them. You can choose to send a photo or not. If you do, you'll confirm your understanding by ticking a box. When you send a photo, you'll receive a unique code. Keep this code if you want to remove your photo from the project later. You can withdraw your photo and data up to two weeks after taking this survey by emailing PuddleWatch@hull.ac.uk with your code. Your photo and data will be deleted. This website lets you upload puddle pictures along with the time and GPS location of the photo. If you have a complaint during this survey, contact PuddleWatch@hull.ac.uk. If your complaint isn't handled to your satisfaction, reach out to the University of Hull Faculty of Science and Engineering Ethics committee at fose-ethics@hull.ac.uk.
Confidentiality and data protection
All the details we collect about you in this research will be kept secret. No one will be able to identify you in reports or publications. We'll keep your personal information separate from your survey answers, and both will be safely stored as per UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the University of Hull’s secure OneDrive. Only specific Hull University researchers will access this data. Our website won't collect any of your personal information. We plan to publish the project results within 18 months. Anyone who participated in the survey can ask to see the published article. The University of Hull's Energy and Environment Institute conducts this research with funding partially from the UKRI via the Hull Impact and Knowledge Exchange (HIKE) Acceleration Account and partly funded by Defra as part of the £200 million Flood and Coastal Innovation Programmes which is managed by the Environment Agency. The programmes will drive innovation in flood and coastal resilience and adaptation to a changing climate..