You are invited to take part in a participatory mapping research study. Before you take part in this research, it is important that you understand why the research is being conducted and what it will involve. Please take the time to read the following information before accessing the map.
This research is being conducted by a final-year undergraduate Geography student. Please feel free to contact the researcher via email (ruby.thirlwell@student.manchester.ac.uk) if you have any further questions or if anything is unclear.
The purpose of this research is to explore public sanitation provision in Greater Manchester. The research aims to examine how recent changes in policy legislating legal definitions of binary sex, identity, and gender presentation are socially enforced and reproduced through gendered sanitation infrastructure and the physical environment of the city.
No personally identifiable information will be collected, and all data will be entirely anonymous. This research will not be published; however, responses collected will be used in an undergraduate dissertation shared with markers and may be shared with future geography undergraduates.
After you have read this information, you will be asked to click ‘Accept and Begin Survey’. You will then be taken to a map of Manchester. You will click on locations where you know there to be publicly available toilets, such as in bars, cafés, pubs, and restaurants. When you click, a small toilet icon will appear with a text box prompting you to input a short description of how the toilet is gendered.
To help you, you could consider whether the toilets are divided by sex/gender, whether they are universal, and how this is communicated to you through the icons used on toilet doors or the wider physical environment of the toilets.
Please include anything you think may contribute to the gendering of the space and provide as much description as possible.
By clicking ‘Accept and Begin Survey’:
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