A Representative Sample? A Few Concerns Regarding Interview Respondents
Over the course of my research, I conducted a total of 23 interviews with legal personnel connected to the Williamsburg/James City County or Fairfax County court systems. These interviews, which...
View ArticleUpdate Two: Transcribing and Coding based on Collective Impact
Despite the setbacks of getting viruses both in my computer and in my body, I’ve been making a lot of headway in my project. I have now conducted ten interviews and finished up shadowing the transition...
View ArticleWomen in STEM: I made it through week #1.
I have just finished my first week of interviews! This also happened to be my busiest week of the project, with a total of ten appointments. I feel it is also appropriate to mention that five of those...
View ArticleWomen in STEM: Post #3
I have finished compiling the data gathered from my 38 interviews, which amounts to the analysis of roughly 24 hours worth of recorded notes. Trends are emerging, and I can now begin to wrap up this...
View ArticleWomen in STEM Summary
At this point, the paper has been written, edited by my advisor, and is expected to be its final form by this coming Monday. A few minor edits and points of reorganization will be incorporated into the...
View ArticleArgentine and U.S. interviews – interesting discussions with student...
Besides surveys, the other primary component of my Monroe project is interviews with students who lead or have led (if the new leaders have not yet assumed their responsibilities) student political...
View ArticleResearching Teen Drinking and Alcohol Use: First Steps
This past week I’ve been working on getting my project off the ground, including scheduling my first interviews, conducting them, transcribing them, and looking for patterns and potential codes (and...
View ArticleChecking in On: Chaplaincy!
Hello all! I’m excited to be reporting on my progress so far with my research on the changing roles of the military chaplaincy. Though I’ve done quite a bit of research on this topic, today I want to...
View ArticleThe First Draft (yikes!)
Over the past week or two I’ve been trying to take the 30-40 hours of interviews I collected and boil them down into a couple key themes and a paper of reasonable length. I’m still wading through the...
View ArticleLots of Verbs: Drinking, Interviewing, Transcribing, Coding
The past few weeks have gone by in a flurry of activity. I spent many days camped out in the Princeton Public Library interviewing participants, sometimes passing eight hours at a time interviewing in...
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