Human fieldwork

• State the title of your fieldwork enquiry

  How does quality of life vary in urban areas within Brighton?
• Identify your hypothesis

  As distance from CBD increases the housing quality and environmental quality increases
• Outline your theory underpinning your work

  Testing the Burgess model which tells us about QOL

  1. Housing quality and environmental quality gets worse the nearer to the inner city you go
  2. Traffic, pedestrian, litter, air and noise pollution increases the closer you go towards the inner city
• JUSTIFY - why is your place good for investigating my question?

  1. Brighton has an urban structure similar to the Burgess model and so is representative and we know we'll get good results
  2. Close to school so can get there in a day
  3. Safe + accessible sites
• Identify two potential risks + how you managed to overcome them

  1. Traffic - remind students of green cross code, assist with crossing roads
  2. Terrorism - students follow advice of nearest responsible adult, check mobile and social media for advice
• Identify examples of quantitative primary data and secondary data

  Primary - environmental quality survey, noise pollution, litter

  Secondary - crime data from police.uk
• Identify examples of primary qualitative data

  Primary - field sketch
• JUSTIFY - why use those two data collection methods?

  1. Environmental quality survey - told us about a range of indicators linked to quality of life - central to our enquiry question
  2. Noise pollution - to see how this differed across the city
• Describe your sampling method

  STRATIFIED - deliberately chose 2 sites in the city where we knew we would see a variation in results

  To ensure we got a representative sample