Research, Interview and Media Notice

The research visit application asks about your organisation, what you do and what a visit could include. Each part has a reason:

Organisation and contact details

To reply to you and to plan the visit with the right person.

What your organisation does

To judge whether a visit would answer one of the research questions.

What a visit could include

So that we know in advance what is possible, and ask for nothing you have not offered.

Photography and filming

Asked separately, because a visit is not a permission to photograph or film. Conditions are agreed before anything is recorded.

Logistics

Entirely optional, never published, and with no effect on whether we would like to visit.

Public listing

A separate permission to name your organisation publicly if a visit goes ahead, which you can withdraw.

Applications are seen only by the co-founders and kept for 36 months from when they are sent.

Circular Journey is carried out by its two co-founders, travelling in person, and people along the way can offer to host them at home. The offer form asks for as little as it can:

Your name, email, country and city

To reply to you and to see whether a stay could fit the route.

A little about you and what you could offer

So that both sides know what a stay would involve. Nothing is expected beyond what you offer.

Your street address

Not asked on the form. If a stay is agreed after a video call, we ask for it by email. It is never published.

The other people in your home

Not asked. A household can describe itself in its own words if it wants to.

That you are 18 or over

A stay can only be agreed with an adult who can offer the home.

Your home, your family and your address are never published. Nothing inside your home, and nobody in it, is photographed, filmed or recorded without asking on the day, and any use of what is recorded is asked for separately, as described below. Either side can change their mind at any point, without giving a reason. Hosting us has no bearing on what we write about your city or your country.

Offers are seen only by the co-founders and kept for 36 months from when they are sent.

We ask for each use separately, before it happens. Agreeing to an interview does not mean agreeing to every future use of it. The permissions are:

• Audio recording of the interview
• Video recording of the interview
• Photographs of me
• Publication on circularjourney.org
• Use in Circular Journey Films, including on YouTube or Vimeo
• Use on Circular Journey social media accounts
• Use in research reports and the Circular Journey Atlas
• Future educational use, such as teaching material or talks

You also choose how you are credited: by full name and role, by role and organisation without your name, or anonymously. You can attach conditions, such as seeing a quotation before it is published.

Consent is recorded on the Interview and Media Consent form, which you can fill in yourself, on paper or on a device, before an interview begins. A copy of your choices is shown to you when you submit it, and emailed to you.

You can withdraw any permission at any time, through Your Privacy Rights or by email to [email protected]. We then stop using the material for that purpose and remove it from everything we control — this website, our films and our social media accounts. Where a report has already been printed or distributed, we correct future editions.

Withdrawing before publication is always simplest. If you are unsure, tell us before an interview is published rather than after.

Every published claim is labelled with the kind of evidence behind it, so that something you told us is never presented as more than it is. Your words are quoted as you said them, with context, and your views are attributed to you rather than presented as fact.

If something we published about you or your organisation is wrong, tell us. We correct it, say that we have, and record what changed.

We distinguish between an organisation’s public information and a person’s private information. An organisation’s published website, public office address or published contact email may be cited as a source. A person’s private phone number, personal email or home address is never published, even if we learned it during the research.

• Information you ask us to keep confidential is not published, and is used only to understand the system being studied.
• Commercially sensitive figures are published only with the organisation’s agreement, or in a form that does not identify it.
• Informal workers, waste pickers and other people in vulnerable positions are not identified without their clear agreement, and are never identified where that could put them at risk.
• Children are not interviewed without the prior written consent of a parent or guardian, and are not identified in anything we publish.

Much of the research draws on published reports, official statistics and public statements. These are cited with their publisher, date and a link, listed on the Sources page, and checked against the original before publication. A source being public does not make every detail in it appropriate to repeat, and we apply the same care to people named in public documents.

For as long as the recording or image is in use, and removed when you withdraw. A consent record is the evidence that we were allowed to use something. Deleting it while the material is still published would remove the proof.