Title
Parkour Vision: Ways of seeing playability (Stage 1)
Principal Investigator/Senior Supervisor
Dr Troy Innocent [Principal Investigator]
Principal Research Student(s)
Kel Glaister
What does my participation involve?
1 Introduction
You are invited to take part in this research project, Parkour Vision: Ways of Seeing Playability. This Participant Information and Consent Form tells you about the research project. It explains the processes involved with taking part. Knowing what is involved will help you decide if you want to take part in the research.
Please read this information carefully. Ask questions about anything that you don’t understand or want to know more about. Before deciding whether to take part, you might want to talk about it with a relative or friend.
Participation in this research is voluntary. If you don’t wish to take part, you don’t have to.
If you decide you want to take part in the research project, you will be asked to sign the consent section. By signing it you are telling us that you:
Understand what you have read
Consent to take part in the research project
You will be given a copy of this Participant Information and Consent Form to keep.
2 What is the purpose of this research?
This research studies how people play in public space, with a focus on parkour vision.
This research will engage with parkour practitioners and others interested in urban play, to investigate the phenomenon of parkour vision (a kind of embodied knowledge you developed through the practice of parkour, that allows you to see how urban space can be reimagined for play).
This research is undertaken through a practice-based methodology, developing a series of creative works. These creative works connect my art and design practice with years of experience as a parkour coach and community organiser.
The outcomes of this research will be a suite of play spaces and equipment which can be placed in any urban space, in a variety of configurations, to create playable urban space and encourage all citizens to see their cities as playable.
The results of this research will be used by the researcher, Kel Glaister, to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree.
3 What does participation in this research involve?
Participants in this research will be provided with a consent form to sign prior to their involvement in the research.
The first stage of this research will be ethnographic interviews and participatory design workshops. Your involvement in the research at this stage includes contributing to online forms, which ask you to watch a video walk-through of a parkour spot and to speak aloud your thoughts as they occur to you. If you consent to and provide your email contact, this may also include a short follow-up interview, but this is not compulsory.
If interested, participants may be invited to contribute to design workshops and play-testing of play spaces at a later stage of the research. Such involvement will be outlined in an additional PICF like this one.
Participation may include being photographed, and audio or video recorded with one or more digital cameras. Verbal confirmation and consent of these recording will be confirmed before each instance, and consent can be withdrawn at any time.
There are no costs associated with participating in this research project, nor will you be paid.
4 Do I have to take part in this research project?
Participation in any part of this research project is voluntary. If you do not wish to take part, you do not have to. If you decide to take part and later change your mind, you are free to withdraw from the project at any stage.
Your decision whether to take part or not to take part, or to take part and then withdraw, will not affect your relationship with the researchers or with RMIT University.
If you are invited to take part in an interview:
You may stop the interview at any time. Unless you say that you want us to keep them, after this request any recordings will be erased and information you have provided will not be included in the study results. You may also refuse to answer any questions that you do not wish to answer during the interview.
6 What are the possible benefits of taking part?
We cannot guarantee or promise that you will receive any benefits from this research; however, you may appreciate contributing to knowledge.
By participating in this research, you will help the development of a research project which aims to make a significant contribution to the field of urban play, playable cities, and academic research into parkour vision. The play spaces are an invitation to play in public space, and are design with fun, joy, play and rest in mind. Other than this experience of play, there will be no clear benefit to you from your participation in this research.
7 What are the risks and disadvantages of taking part?
There are minimal risks anticipated with the project, however there are some considerations to be aware of:
Your participation in this project may be due to your existing involvement in the parkour community, and to some extent, your existing relationship with Kel Glaister. As such, there is a chance any disagreements regarding the direction of the research, or the acknowledgement of your contribution, may adversely affect that relationship. In light of this, all efforts will be made to ensure open and direct communication, clear lines for negotiation and complaints, and full acknowledgement.
8 What if I withdraw from this research project?
If you do consent to participate, you may withdraw at any time. If you decide to withdraw from the project, please notify a member of the research team.
You have the right to have any unprocessed data withdrawn and destroyed, providing it can be reliably identified.
You can withdraw any identifiable outputs (any quotes, photos or videos) from the thesis or presentation up to 8 weeks before the submission of either, with relevant materials provided to you two weeks prior to that, for you to review the material. This timeline will be confirmed with you via email, and you will be reminded of these dates via email as they approach.
9 What happens when the research project ends?
The participants will be informed via email (if they have provided email contact) if any publications are disseminated and at the completion of the PhD.
How is the research project being conducted?
10 What will happen to information about me?
By signing the consent form, you consent to the research team collecting and using information from you for the research project. Any information obtained in connection with this research project that can identify you will remain confidential.
The collected data is only accessible to the research team and will be stored for five years then deleted. Digital data (i.e. videos, photographs, audio recordings) will be stored on RMIT approved cloud application (i.e. Google Drive, via the researcher’s student login). These will also be backed up to the researcher’s laptop and portable hard-drive and stored in a secure home office’s locked cabinet. Physical data (i.e. consent forms, questionnaires) will be securely stored at RMIT’s City Campus.
The data will be used for the particular project or creative work you participate in. They will also be used to inform the next creative works within the research’s project series.
It is anticipated that the results of this research project will be published and/or presented in a variety of forums. In any publication and/or presentation, information will be provided in such a way that you cannot be identified, except with your express permission. You will be anonymised in any potential publications.
In accordance with relevant Australian and/or Victorian privacy and other relevant laws, you have the right to request access to the information about you that is collected and stored by the research team. You also have the right to request that any information with which you disagree be corrected. Please inform the research team member named at the end of this document if you would like to access your information.
Any information that you provide can be disclosed only if (1) it is to protect you or others from harm, (2) if specifically allowed by law, (3) you provide the researchers with written permission. Any information obtained for the purpose of this research project that can identify you will be treated as confidential and securely stored.
11 Who is organising and funding the research?
This research project is being conducted by Kel Glaister.
12 Who has reviewed the research project?
All research in Australia involving humans is reviewed by an independent group of people called a Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC). This research project has been approved by the RMIT University HREC.
This project will be carried out according to the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007). This statement has been developed to protect the interests of people who agree to participate in human research studies.
13 Further information and who to contact
If you want any further information concerning this project, you can contact the researcher at
Kel Glaister
PhD Student
+61 479143435
s3991549@student.rmit.edu.au
14 Complaints
Should you have any concerns or questions about this research project, which you do not wish to discuss with the researchers listed in this document, then you may contact:
Reviewing HREC name: RMIT University
HREC Secretary: Vivienne Moyle
Telephone: +61 3 9925 5037
Email: humanethics@rmit.edu.au
Mailing address
Manager, Research Governance and Ethics, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC 3001