Consent form for research project on data driven election campaigning

Thank you for agreeing to take part in this project. Throughout this project, our most important goals are to protect our interviewees’ well being and ensure that the research is conducted in an ethical fashion. 

This consent form lays out the terms on which this research is being conducted and ways in which interview data will be used by the researchers. If you have any questions regarding this form, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Otherwise, if you could please sign the form (either electronically or on paper) and return to:

Dr Nick Anstead
[Email] n.m.anstead@lse.ac.uk
[Postal] Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2 2AE

Consent form (to be returned by interviewee)

I understand that the interviews for these projects will be recorded to ensure accurate transcription. Transcriptions and recordings will be accessible only to Dr Nick Anstead (lead investigator on the project) and the two research assistants, Marc Geddes and Alan Wager.

In output for the project (final report, working paper, journal articles etc), no individual interviewee will be identified by name, but instead will be referred to by terminology agreed in the interview. 

 I have read and understood these terms. 

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