All posts filed under: Interview Coding

Reflection on the Pussy Palace: Coding for Identity Shifts

February 26, 2022
by Alisha Stranges
Interview Coding / Pussy Palace Project / UVic Undergraduate Internship

Beginning in January 2022, the Collaboratory invited UVic undergraduate Amanda Thomson to participate in a 4-week volunteer internship with the Pussy Palace Oral History Project, supporting the team in preparing oral history interviews for coding in NVivo and experimenting with the software by coding a few interviews herself. Here are her reflections on the experience.  I have been volunteering with the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory’s Pussy Palace Oral History Project (PPOHP) since early January […]

Coding the Pussy Palace Oral Histories: NVivo for the Digital Humanities

December 16, 2021
by Emily Mastragostino
Collaboratory News / Interview Coding / Oral History / Pussy Palace Project

WHAT IS INTERVIEW CODING? Coding is the process of organizing data in preparation for analysis. Through coding we identify common themes that allow us to compare and contrast experiences, perspectives, and descriptions from our data. Fundamentally, coding helps us figure out what is salient across stories and most important to the narrators.   It’s a fairly straightforward process! Coding involves identifying, creating, and updating themes, as well as sorting data into those themes. Among the Pussy Palace oral histories, common themes can be as simple as descriptions of the carpet or more complex like individuals’ experience of care at […]

Call for Applications: Work Study Interview Coder

April 28, 2021
by Andy Huynh
Collaboratory News / Interview Coding / Opportunities / Oral History / Public Humanities / Pussy Palace Project

We seek a work-study eligible graduate student or advanced undergraduate student with experience in interview coding to code LGBQT2+ oral history interviews. The two oral history projects we’re currently working on are the Trans Activism Oral History Project and the Pussy Palace Police Raid Oral History Project. Successful applicants will be contracted from Spring/Summer May 3, 2021 to Aug 6, 2021 (100 hours) at $26.00 per hour.   This is a work study position. To apply, you must […]