Category: research opportunity

"The 2023 Gender Census is Open" next to illustrations of happy and thriving transgender and nonbinary people

Gender Census 2023 Now Open!

Posted on by Grayson Schultz

The 10th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 9th May 2023. This is a short and easy survey.

What is the Gender Census?

The Gender Census is an annual survey that collects information about the language used by people whose genders are not adequately described, expressed or encompassed by the restrictive gender binary. It has taken place every year since 2015.

The language we ask about includes identity words, honorific titles, and pronouns.

Who can take this survey?

The gender binary is a societal model that classifies all humans into one of two categories:

  • Woman/girl – always, solely and completely
  • Man/boy – always, solely and completely

If you feel like that doesn’t fit your experience of yourself and your own gender in some way, you are invited to participate. This includes, but is definitely not limited to:

  • people whose genders change over time.
  • people whose genders fluctuate in intensity.
  • people who experience more than one gender at a time.
  • people who don’t experience gender at all.
  • people whose gender is neither male/man nor female/woman.

We also welcome anyone who:

  • rejects gender altogether.
  • feels like they’re outside of gender.
  • feels like they transcend or move beyond gender or the gender binary.
  • doesn’t really understand gender as it applies to them.
  • is questioning whether their flavour of trans might be binary or nonbinary.

It’s completely up to you whether you feel you fit any of these. This survey leans on the side of inclusive.

You can find data from previous years’ here. This is research from within our community and responses are anonymous.

How do I participate?

Click here to take the survey. It will close on or around May 9th.

Note: language in this post is taken from the Gender Census site.

Calling nonbinary folks with nonbinary partners!! Have you heard of the LNLH study? This study seeks to gain insight into how nonbinary partners who live together share household labor (tasks such as cooking, cleaning, taking out the trash, etc.). To be eligible to participate, you must have a nonbinary identity, and currently living with one romantic partner, or multiple romantic partners, who has/have a nonbinary identity. Zoom interviews typically last around one hour. Interviewees will receive $50 Etsy e-gift cards as compensation for their time. If interested, please scan the QR code or visit https://bit.ly/LNLHstudy

Calling nonbinary folks with nonbinary partners!

Posted on by Grayson Schultz

Have you heard of the LNLH study? This study seeks to gain insight into how nonbinary partners who live together share household labor (tasks such as cooking, cleaning, taking out the trash, etc.).

To be eligible to participate, you must have a nonbinary identity, and currently living with one romantic partner, or multiple romantic partners, who has/have a nonbinary identity.

Zoom interviews typically last around one hour. Interviewees will receive $50 Etsy e-gift cards as compensation for their time.

This is not limited to U.S. partipants only, either. If you’re interested and international, please check it out!

If interested, please scan the QR code in the photo or visit https://bit.ly/LNLHstudy

Yellow graphic with megaphone. Text reads "Do you use adaptive equipment or assistive technology to get around, communicate, or complete tasks? Have you ever had trouble getting the equipment and technology you need? Have you ever struggled to get your equipment repaired or to make your equipment work better for you?" Link is https://tinyurl.com/disabilitytechjustice

Disability and Technology Policy Survey

Posted on by Grayson Schultz

Researchers at Purdue University are studying how disability and technology policy can change to make life better for people who use adaptive equipment and assistive technology:

We are investigating how people with disabilities in the United States qualify for, access, and maintain adaptive and assistive technologies. This study explores people’s experiences with acquiring, maintaining, and advocating for assistive and adaptive technology. We are collecting this information to inform future technology design, changes in technology policy, and to support a public information campaign, all of which we hope will improve technology access for people with disabilities in the United States. Your participation in this study will take 10-20 minutes of your time.

You are being asked to participate in this survey because you are a person with a disability who uses adaptive or assistive technology. We would like to enroll at least 250 people in this study. The survey will close if we reach 1000 responses. In total, this project will involve up to 1120 participants across multiple stakeholder groups and data collection methods.

You will be asked a series of questions about your experiences with adaptive and assistive technology. After completion of the survey, you are invited to email the researchers if you are interested in participating in longer format interviews about the same topic.

The survey will take approximately 20 minutes or less.

To participate or for more details, click here.

Research Opportunity for Folks in Recovery from Drug and Alcohol Use Disorder

Research Opportunity for Folks in Recovery from Drug and Alcohol Use Disorder

Posted on by Grayson Schultz

One of my friends is currently working on collecting data for his PhD. Please see below.

Aaron M. Laxton, student in the school of social work at Saint Louis University, is inviting you to participate in this research study.

The title of this study is “Examining Spatial Reasoning in Individuals Recovering from Drug and Alcohol Use Disorder”. The purpose of this study is to measure spatial reasoning among individuals who are recovering from drug and alcohol abuse. A secondary objective is to assess the effects of substance abuse and recovery on spatial reasoning.

Your participation in this study will involve participating in an online survey. The study proposes that it will take 5 minutes to complete the survey.

Participation in this study will not benefit you directly. Your participation may benefit others by expanding knowledge regarding strategies, interventions, services provision, and accessibility that enhance the overall wellbeing of international students

The risks to the participant are minimal and include loss of anonymity. To minimize this risk, the study team will not collect any identifiable information including IP addresses. Study data will only be accessible to the study team. You may experience participant distress or discomfort experienced because of answering questions on survey instruments or feel pressure to answer questions or to provide responses in assessments. This pressure may cause stress or distress. To minimize these risks, you can choose not to answer any question that makes you uncomfortable.

The results of this study may be published in scientific research journals or presented at professional conferences. However, your name and identity will not be revealed, and your record will remain anonymous. Data collection instruments will not request any personally identifiable information.

You can choose not to participate. If you decide not to participate, there will not be a penalty for you or the loss of any benefits to which you are otherwise entitled. You may withdraw from this study at any time.

If you would like to look more into this study – or complete the survey – please click here.

The U.S. Trans Survey is now open! [closed]

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The following is from an email sent out by the U.S. Trans Survey Team @ National Center for Transgender Equality yesterday (10-19):

take the us trans survey

We’re proud to announce that the U.S. Trans Survey is now open and ready for you to take! Whether you pledged to take the survey or not, you can take the survey today!!

As trans people, we know that we’ve accomplished incredible things together as a community. Join thousands of other people folks around the country in sharing your experience to create a clear picture of what it’s like to be trans in the United States.

If you are trans and plan to take the survey, here’s what you need to know:

  • The survey is open to people of all trans identities (binary and nonbinary), ages 16 and older, living in the United States and U.S. territories, regardless of citizenship status.
  • If you pledged to take the survey, you are not obligated to take the survey. Participation is voluntary. When you click on the link to start the survey, you will be asked to consent to take the survey.
  • The U.S. Trans Survey is an anonymous survey. Your response will be kept confidential and will not be used to identify you.
  • The time required to take the survey may vary, but make sure to set aside at least 60 minutes to take the survey.
  • The survey will be available in both English and Spanish.
  • Please let your trans friends and siblings know about the survey too!

The U.S. Trans Survey is being conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality in partnership with the National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition, TransLatin@ Coalition, and National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance.

If you have any questions, please reach out at ustranssurvey@transequality.org.

Again, thank you so much for being part of this important survey. We’re excited to see the results!

Click here to take the survey now!

With love and solidarity,

The U.S. Trans Survey Team

Survey About How Social Media Increases Anti-Trans Ideals

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the role of social media in facilitating anti-gender mobilizing and their impact on tgdi movements

The following is from the webpage on this survey:

We want to explore the impact of global anti-gender movements on trans, gender diverse (TGD) and wider LGBTQI mobilizing and rights and the role of social media in facilitating anti-gender mobilizing and discourses.

The anti-gender movement is an international movement which opposes what it refers to as gender ideology, gender theory, or genderism (Kováts, Eszter, 2016). Today, social media plays a huge role in disinformation currencies that perpetuate anti-gender mobilizing. If you’re a trans or gender diverse person, is very likely that you’ve encountered anti-gender movements. We’re creating a survey to collect data that can help us counteract these movements, and we need your help! This survey was created for people who are part of organizations or unregistered collectives working on trans, gender diverse or wider LGBQ communities and issues.

It takes about 20-30 minutes to fill out this questionnaire. You are welcome to send us your complaints or other types of feedback to research@gate.ngo. Considering the safety issues in many contexts relating to reporting on anti-gender opposition and/or being an activist or a community member, you will have the opportunity to stay anonymous. This is also available in Russian and Spanish.

If you’re interested in participating, click here.

The 2022 Gender Census is open! [closed]

Posted on by Grayson Schultz

The 2022 Gender Census is open!

This survey is open to anyone, in any country, of any age, whose experience of their gender doesn’t fit tidily into the strict binary of female/male. It seeks broad statistical data about the language we use to refer to ourselves in English, e.g. pronouns, identity words, and titles. The results will be made public for use in activism, self-advocacy, business, and academia.

Helpful information:

  • It is international and open to anyone, anywhere.
  • The survey aims to collect information about the language we use to refer to ourselves.
  • Most of the survey asks about three things: identity words, pronouns and titles.
  • There is a feedback box at the end.
  • Most people find that it takes 5 minutes or less.
  • You can read the FAQs here.

This is a volunteer-run, crowdfunded project. They don’t pay for any advertising at all, and the >44,000 responses last year were gathered entirely by word-of-mouth.

If you’re into that kind of thing, click here to take part: survey.gendercensus.com

Rites of Passage Study

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Sharing the following opportunity as listed on my friend ink’s substack:

Rites of passage research is incredibly important to me in my journey of recovery and becoming. Through initiating to adulthood in community, to learning to truly be alone, rites of passage work has fostered an unwavering sense of knowingness and purpose into my life that I hope all young people get the privilege to experience.

We have all grown up in vastly different ways. Qualitatively, there is no one growing up story alike another.

With this, we want to know more about how you grew up.

We are building an understanding of how our generation of young people have come into age as we seek to understand its impacts on health, toward future programs.

This is an incentivized opportunity ($20 bookstore giftcard) to contribute to the advancement of rites research, as we move toward implementing ways of knowing and being that support growing up.

These questions are in-depth and may be uncomfortable. Only engage if you feel you have the time to donate your story to the cause. Otherwise, please feel free to disregard or send feedback.

Find everything you need to know here, and thank you for supporting the research.

Participate in the International Kink Health Study

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KINK HEALTH Adventurous people deserve exceptional care. kinkhealth.org TASHRA presents an international health study and invites YOU to learn if you are eligible. Go to kinkhealth.org Do you have recurring, long-standing fantasies that focus on kink, bondage, and fetish? Our goals: • The IKHS will document the prevalence of injuries and medical complications arising from kink activities • Examine the health status of kink-involved people; and document how healthcare is utilized by kink The involved people International • Investigate how connections to kink communities Kink Health affect people's health and well-being Study (IKHS) Contact us with other questions at KinkHealth2@protonmail.com *Complete a short survey to determine your eligibility for this study at kinkhealth.org

The International Kink Health Study is now LIVE!

The International Kink Health Study (IKHS) is a research project about the physical and mental health, childhood experience, sexuality and healthcare of those around the world with recurring fantasies and practices that involve kink/BDSM/leather and fetish.

An expansion of our 2016 research survey, this study plans to invite participants to become part of a group of kink interested people from around the world. We will ask them to complete yearly surveys over a number of years. We hope that they will help us understand more about what it means to be kinky, about their health and wellbeing, their kink lives and pleasure, their relationships and roles, their injuries and their experiences of healing.

We are researchers with deep roots in the kink community and who want to make sure that this information benefits the kink community. Won’t you think about joining with us on our upcoming adventure?

Want to learn more, see if you’re eligible, or take the survey?
Pop over to the study’s website today.

Pledge to Take the 2022 US Trans Survey

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a graphic featuring black, brown, white, pink, and blue hands - pledge to take the us trans survey

The U.S. Trans Survey (USTS) is the largest survey of trans people in the United States. The USTS documents the lives and experiences of trans people in the U.S. and U.S. territories. The last time data was collected was back in 2015. That year, nearly 28,000 people took the survey!

The USTS is the main source of data about trans people for the media, educators, policymakers, and the general public, covering health, employment, income, the criminal justice system, etc.  USTS reports have been a vital resource, including the reports on the experiences of people of color and reports by state.

It is vital that we ensure that this survey includes data about historically and continually forcibly marginalized groups, including Black and Brown folks, those in rural areas, disabled folks, and more.

So, if you are ages 16+ and are transgender, nonbinary, etc., please consider pledging to take the survey when it’s out later this year.

Pledge here

Note: By submitting this pledge form, you’ll receive email updates from the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) about the survey. Pledging to take the survey does not obligate you to take the survey. Participation is voluntary. You will be asked to consent to take the survey later when the survey enrollment begins.