This is a pilot project from an ESRC postdoctoral research fellowship entitled 'Everyday Life with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Mobilities, Accessibility and Belonging'. This postdoctoral fellowship was dedicated to dissemination, engagement and developing new research. This dataset is a pilot study exploring toilet access for couriers and food delivery drivers. 8 people who identified as working within parcel or food delivery took part in the research. This included keeping a diary and a follow up interview. A selection of diaries and interviews have been uploaded to this dataset. The project explored issues of toilet access for couriers and food delivery drivers and was conducted from January 2021-April 2021. Ethics approval was granted by the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield (number: 037321)This is a pilot project from an ESRC postdoctoral research fellowship entitled 'Everyday Life with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Mobilities, Accessibility and Belonging'. This postdoctoral fellowship was dedicated to dissemination, engagement and developing new research. This dataset is a pilot study exploring toilet access for couriers and food delivery drivers. 8 people who identified as working within parcel or food delivery took part in the research. This included keeping a diary and a follow up interview. A selection of diaries and interviews have been uploaded to this dataset. The project explored issues of toilet access for couriers and food delivery drivers and was conducted from January 2021-April 2021. Ethics approval was granted by the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield (number: 037321)
This project utilised mobile work diaries that included audio recordings and written notes. Follow up interviews were also conducted. The study was advertised on social media and used personal networks to distribute the call for participants. Anyone who identified as a courier or food delivery driver was invited to take part in the project.