Message for Participants

 A Message for Participants: Keeping In Touch

We are delighted to invite you to the next stage of the PADS+ study. We will soon be contacting you about our next round of interviews. It has been 10 years since we last saw you and we are looking forward to hearing about your experiences and perspectives since we last met. 

To help us stay in touch, please update your contact details by calling our office number on 01 223 335 374 or emailing us at pads@pads.ac.uk . As has always been and will remain to case, your personal information will remain strictly confidential and securely protected. 

We really appreciate your continued participation in our study. PADS+ is an internationally-renowned ground-breaking research study about the lives of people your age who have grown up in the UK. We first interviewed you over 20 years ago in 2004 (when you were 13 years old) and 91% of you are still taking part!  

We continue to be interested in your experiences as an adult, and hope that you will continue to be a part of this important study. 

GDPR participant information: 

We take the security of all PADS+ data, including your personal data, very seriously and employ a number of measures to protect it.  

Any personal data we collect is kept confidential and stored securely following strict principles of academic data protection, which complement GDPR  (General Data Protection Regulation). This means we can store only personal information necessary to conduct our ongoing longitudinal research, for example, to contact you for interview. This information will not be shared with anyone beyond the research team and will only be kept as long as it is needed for the purposes of the studies, after which it will be securely deleted. All research data collected by PADS+ is anonymised (any personal identifiable information is removed) before analysis and any publications or other outputs based on the data report findings at the group and not the personal level.  

Our PADS+ information sheet, which we will send to you by email, provides further information about how we ensure the confidentiality of your data. We are also always happy to answer any questions you may have. You can contact us at pads@pads.ac.uk or by calling our office on 01 223 335 374