Canal network liveaboard survey

[Old Crusty]

The Universities of Cardiff and Plymouth are carrying out a joint research project called Canal boat dwelling: Homes, Welfare and Mobile Citizenship on Britain’s Canals. The project is funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. The researchers are Professor Richard Yarwood (Plymouth) and Dr Agatha Herman (Cardiff). They say:
“We are particularly interested in issues around homes, families, welfare and citizenship and would love to hear your stories as these will help us better understand the benefits and challenges you experience. It has four main objectives, which are to:

• Examine why people live on canal boats;
• Evaluate how people living on canal boats access services and employment;
• Study how canal regulations impact on lifestyles;
• Understand these issues in the context of mobile, canal communities.”

They are inviting boaters to take part in a survey; participation is anonymous and you don’t have to give your name or contact details. The survey is online here:
Microsoft Forms
More information about the research is available here Plymouth-Cardiff Universities research liveaboards

 

[Big John]

Question 11 has a lot of scope to answer same with 23 and 24 but not sure they will be willing to use the app.

 

[Bru]

I cannot help but be suspiciously curious as to the motivation behind universities in Plymouth and Cardiff, neither location renowned for its connections to the inland waterways network, undertaking a research project of this nature

If I was living on the canals I'd want to know a good deal more ... actually I'd want to know something at all ... about the purpose of the survey and research

 

[ryanroberts]

"approximately how many hours a day do you spend on average cruising" is a particularly dumb way of putting things given most legit CC people have weekly / fortnightly patterns and there's no such thing as a "Continual Cruising Licence". Looks like pretty standard academic poverty porn fishing other than the stuff about apps. I guess you would hope professional researchers would get basic terminology and the licensing structure correct.

Likely purpose is that "Class on the cut: poverty, equality and policing linear spaces on England's canals" ends up in a journal read by 20 other people in their niche and not much else.

 

[Bru]

... there's no such thing as a "Continual Cruising Licence".

There isn't now but there used to be until CaRT did away with it

Otherwise perhaps your right but i suspect an ulterior motive (and I'm not normally that suspicious)

My feeling is that it's been instigated by one or more of the residential boater pressure groups to manufacture ammunition to use in combating CaRT's efforts to deal with the liveaboard problem

 

[ryanroberts]

CaRT can't even deal with the most egregious cases like Airbnb boats on visitor moorings in central London and criminal boatlording.

 

[Bru]

The London problem is (and long has been) complex to say the least. CaRT has to work with social services and local authorities in order to deal with illegal liveaboards and that's been problematic enough when trying to tackle a handful of boats in a rural location. It has so far proved next to impossible within London where as far as the other authorities are concerned the people living on boats are a lower priority than the huge problem of people living on the streets

It needs tackling but my understanding is that it will likely be the last area to be dealt with