Information Sheet  
 
Those who work within the police service can be exposed to many dangers whilst driving. We are interested in understanding how feelings of fatigue and sleepiness can affect police workers whilst they are travelling. We hope that by conducting this research we can get a better understanding of how fatigue and sleepiness affect driving, and how we might predict these feelings. To do this, we need to ask you a series of questions to better understand your experiences of shift work, driving/riding, fatigue, and sleepiness.
 
What is this survey?   
This survey is being conducted by Sleep researchers at Nottingham Trent University in collaboration with the National Police Wellbeing Service (NPWS) and the Road Safety Trust. We are distributing this survey to many forces via the NPWS. To take part in this survey, you should be over 18 years of age, and be employed in the police service. This survey is expected to take up to around an hour to complete. Any answers you give us will be anonymous and you will not be able to be identified by the responses you give us.
 
The questions will ask about your sleep-related behaviours and issues, as well as your driving behaviours, shift work patterns, and health. There are no right or wrong answers and we are interested in collecting responses from a range of people. 

We will use this data to understand how shiftwork-related issues affect sleepiness, fatigue and driving incidents. We hope to produce technologies and tools that can help people to be more aware of their risk of driving incidents by monitoring their levels of sleepiness and fatigue.  
 
Are there any benefits to taking part in this survey? 
You will be entered into a prize draw with multiple chances of winning a shopping voucher worth £100. The unique identification code that you create in this survey will be announced via email and you can then contact us to claim your prize. You will not have to disclose your identity to claim your prize (the claiming procedure will be explained when prize winners are announced). 
 
There are no risks to taking part that you would not normally encounter when using your device for an hour. You are free to take breaks as necessary to limit any effects of eyestrain. If there are any questions that you do not feel comfortable answering, please feel free to leave these blank. 
 
How will my data be used? 
All data you provide will be anonymised and can only be identified through the unique identification code that you will create on the next page. It will not be possible to identify you from the results you provide. You will not be asked for your name, or any contact details as part of the survey. The data collected during this survey may support academic publications, but any data will not be shared without the researchers' approval. Any data that is linked with publications or is shared will be fully anonymised and there will be no way to identify you or your responses from this data. 
  
NTU Research Privacy Notice (RPN) 
The Research Privacy Notice outlines what NTU does with personal data and how we protect personal data and the rights of research participants during research activities in accordance with UK GDPR/ Data Protection Act 2018. For more information regarding the RPN, please click on the following link: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/p...research-privacy-notice  
  

How can I withdraw my data from the survey? 
If there are any questions that you do not want to answer, please leave them blank. If you do not wish to take part, please close your browser now. If you would like to withdraw any data that you have already entered into the survey, please contact peter.goodwin@ntu.ac.uk within a month of entering your data or submitting your responses by emailing us with the unique code you will create as part of this survey. Please note that you do not need to give use any reason for withdrawing your data from the survey. However, your anonymity may be partially compromised depending on the email address you use to contact us (e.g., if it contains your name).
 
  
Who has considered this research? 
The project has gone through the relevant NTU research ethics procedures and has been given a favourable ethics opinion by Nottingham Trent University’s Schools of Business, Law and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee If you have any issues with its contents, or about this project we are conducting with the Road Safety Trust and the National Police Wellbeing Service, please feel free to contact Peter Goodwin (peter.goodwin@ntu.ac.uk). 

If completing the survey has resulted in any distress, you may find the links below helpful, as well as any information about wellbeing teams from intranet pages for your individual force 
   
If you want to speak with someone not directly involved in this research, or if you have questions about your rights as a research subject, please contact Professor Gary Jones at Nottingham Trent University. You can contact them at tel: +44 115 848 2422 or send an e-mail to: gary.jones@ntu.ac.uk 
  
Thank you for taking part. 

Dr Yvonne Taylor, Chief Inspector with the National Police Wellbeing Service 
Email: Yvonne.Taylor@college.police.uk  
Professor John A Groeger (Principal Investigator)  
Email: john.groeger@ntu.ac.uk                                        tel: +44 115 84 86421 
Dr Fran Pilkington Cheney (Co-investigator) 
Email: fran.pilkington-cheney@ntu.ac.uk                      
Dr Peter Goodwin (Co-investigator) 
Email: peter.goodwin@ntu.ac.uk 
 
Professor Groeger, and Drs Pilkington-Cheney and Goodwin can be contacted by post at: 
NTU Psychology, School of Social Sciences, 
Nottingham Trent University, 50 Shakespeare Street, 
Nottingham, NG1 4FQ