Participant Information

Project Title:	Beyond the Barriers: Why do women and girls really drop out of sport?
Lead Researcher:	Alana Dalgleish
Other Researchers:	Broderick Doran

What is it about?

The barriers to participation for women and girls sport have been widely researched, outlining the high-level issues such as cost or loss of interest. However, the behavioural, cultural, social and other unknown factors that cause these issues have not been widely researched.

This study is investigating the barriers to participation for women and girls, and the deeper behavioural, cultural, and social factors that may be leading to these barriers.

What will you be asked to do?

You are invited to complete a short online survey which includes information about your participation in sport. The survey should take approximately 5 – 15 minutes to complete.

Participation and Consent

• Participation in this study is voluntary and anonymous. By completing the survey, you give consent to participate in this study. You may stop participating or withdraw your consent at any time, without explanation or consequence. To have your survey response and data removed and deleted from the study, please email: alana@asenda.au
• Providing information in the survey implies your consent to participate in this research project.
• Our study requires compulsory questions about age range, locality, gender identification. To participate in this study, you must be willing to complete these fields, so that we can compare results across age, gender and location.
• If you are under the age of 18 and want to complete this survey, please receive permission and consent from a parent or guardian, and have that parent or guardian present while completing the survey.

Confidentiality and anonymity of your information

• Your participation in this survey is anonymous, we will not ask for your name to complete the survey. However, we do ask for an email address to contact you in the case that you reveal sensitive or personal information that requires us to provide a duty of care and ensure your wellbeing.
• In the analysis process, we de-identify the data by removing the email addresses from the data set, to ensure anonymity. However, we do keep a version of the data set with email addresses attached in the case that a survey response requires us to contact the person and make sure they are safe.
• All data is kept in accordance with Asenda’s Privacy Policy
• Your de-identified data may be used for future research projects, such as being re-analysed or added to our data repositories to answer other research questions. Any person gaining access to this data, beyond this project, shall receive the de-identified data set.

How will the results be used?

• The results will be made into a publicly viewable high-level report on our website, www.asenda.au and participants will not be identified beyond basic age, gender or locality metrics.
• The results may be used to make recommendations to sporting organisations and bodies, to improve the experience and participation rate of women and girls in sport.

Benefits and Risks

• This research will provide benefits to the Australian sporting sector.
• We expect this to be a positive experience for you. There is a very low risk for your participation.

In the unlikely event you experience distress during this study, such as when reflecting on your experiences that led up to the decision to quit playing sport, you are encouraged to contact Life Line on 13 11 14 or reach out to Alana Dalgleish, the lead researcher, at alana@asenda.au