The short version
- The survey is private, invitation-only and strictly 18+.
- Your answers are kept strictly confidential. They are never sold and never published.
- They're saved with your invitation, so you can ask to see or delete them whenever you like.
- Only we see them, and they're used internally to understand student life in Dublin.
- It takes about 10 minutes. Taking part is entirely up to you, and you can stop at any time.
- Finish the survey and get a €25 Just Eat Digital Gift Card code, right on screen.
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What is StudyLife.ie?
A small, independent research project about student life in Dublin. We want to understand how study, work, commuting, money, social life and other day-to-day pressures affect students' overall study–work–life balance.
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Why you've been invited
We're inviting students from a range of Dublin colleges and universities, rather than running an open public survey. That way we hear from a considered mix of people, courses and circumstances.
How we contacted you
We came across your public LinkedIn profile, which shows you study at a Dublin college, and sent you a private message with a personal invitation code. We note your name next to that code so your invitation and gift card go to the right person.
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What you'll be asked
A quick age check, then seven short sections, taking about 10 minutes in total:
About youYour collegeGetting thereYour timetableWorkMoneyLife & balance
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Your gift card
€25
When you finish the survey, you'll get a €25 Just Eat Digital Gift Card code, shown right there on screen.
- One gift card per invitation, for invited respondents who complete the whole survey.
- You can see your code again any time by re-entering your invitation code.
- Questions or issues with the gift card? Email hello@studylife.ie.
- Your answers never affect whether you receive a gift card.
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How we handle your answers
Strictly confidentialOnly StudyLife.ie can see your answers. No one else.
Never sold or publishedFor internal use only. Never shared for advertising or marketing.
Yours to see or deleteAsk at any time and we'll show you your answers or remove them.
Your answers are saved with your invitation, so they aren't anonymous: we can tell which answers are yours. That's also what lets us show you your data, correct it or delete it whenever you ask.
What we keep
- From your LinkedIn profile: your name.
- From us: your invitation code, the gift card code set aside for you, and the dates and times you first opened your invitation and completed the survey.
- From your answers: your age band and gender (or "prefer not to say"); your college, course area and year; your class timetable; how you travel to college; your work and how you fund your studies; your answers about sleep, stress, social life and balance; and anything you write in the final free-text question.
A few questions ask about sleep and stress. The law treats those as health-related, so we only collect them with your explicit consent, which you give on the invitation page before you start.
What we don't collect
Your email address, phone number or student number. We don't store your IP address, and we don't use tracking or advertising cookies.
How results are used
Findings are private and for internal use only. They are never published or shared outside StudyLife.ie. We don't use your answers for automated decisions or profiling.
Where it's kept, and for how long
StoredSecurely, on servers in Helsinki, Finland, within the EU
Kept for6 months after the survey closes, then deleted
That covers everything: your name, your codes and your answers. Our hosting provider stores the data on our behalf and has no right to use it.
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Your data, your rights
Who looks after your data
StudyLife.ie is responsible for looking after your data. For anything about it, email gdpr@studylife.ie.
Why we're allowed to use it
- Your answers: because you gave your consent, including explicit consent for the sleep and stress questions (GDPR Articles 6(1)(a) and 9(2)(a)).
- Inviting you: our legitimate interest in inviting students to take part in research (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)).
What you can ask us to do
See your dataAsk for a copy of everything we hold about you.
Correct itAsk us to fix anything that's wrong.
Delete itAsk us to delete your name, codes and answers.
Limit or objectAsk us to stop using your data, or not to contact you again.
Take it with youGet your answers in a common file format.
Withdraw consentAt any time. We'll delete your answers. It doesn't affect anything done before.
To use any of these, email gdpr@studylife.ie. We'll reply within one month, and it's free.
Taking part is voluntary. If you close the survey before you submit, none of your answers are saved. We only note that your invitation was opened.
If something doesn't feel right about how your data is handled, tell us and we'll sort it out. You can also contact Ireland's Data Protection Commission at
dataprotection.ie.
Data controller for the purposes of GDPR: Danilo Denesco, StudyLife.ie.