Nature Park Survey

The research is being carried out by Manchester Metropolitan University, the Higher Education partner for the National Education Nature Park, working with the Department for Education, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Horticultural Society.

We’re keen to understand how we can support the thousands of educators and learners taking part in the Nature Park most effectively.

We’ve put together a short online survey to find out more about your experience of the Nature Park and what would help you the most to deliver activities in your education setting. By taking part, you’ll be helping to shape the programme and the support we provide in the future. No matter where you are on your Nature Park journey and what role you have within your setting, we’d love to hear from you.

The results of the research will be published in the academic literature, and we’ll share our findings and future developments including through articles, policy documents, online and awareness raising programmes.

The survey is divided into four sections and should take around 20 minutes to complete.

Section 1 focuses on your views on any support you have accessed to deliver the Nature Park programme.

Section 2 focuses on your views on improving support for Nature Park programme delivery.

Section 3 asks for some background information about your setting, covering a range of factors relevant to the research.

Section 4 asks for some background information about your engagement with the Nature Park programme, covering a range of factors relevant to the research.

We do not ask for any personally identifiable information in the survey (i.e. your responses are fully anonymous).

This survey has been designed to ensure that responses provided are anonymous and cannot be used to identify you. However, there are free text boxes within the survey which we ask you to complete – please ensure you do not include any information which may be used to identify you.

At the end of the survey there will be an option to participate in future Nature Park research. If you wish to participate, simply follow the link and provide your name and email address (noting this will not be connected with your response to this survey). If you do not wish to participate in future research, there is no need to follow the link or provide your name or email address.

The research lead is Professor Liz Price from the Manchester Metropolitan University.

Withdrawing from this research: As all responses will be anonymous, it will not be possible to identify or remove your response.

Further information and contact details: For detailed information about this research please see the full Participant Information Sheet. If you have any further questions about this survey, please contact Liz Price: e.price@mmu.ac.uk.