Interviewing is at its core a collaborative and communicative method. This is true not only for conducting, but also for analyzing narrative interviews. Analyzing interviews in groups ensures the quality of interpretation. A collaborative interpretation process allows for different perspectives and thus different readings of an interview and helps guarantee the intersubjective comprehensibility of analysis results – a central criteria of quality for qualitative research. While teams in larger research projects can cooperate in the analysis process, this is a challenge for PhD students who generally work on their dissertation alone. This workshop allows 12 PhD students who work with narrative interviews in their respective disciplines of Historical and Cultural Studies to address this issue and provide them with a setting for collaborative analysis.

Participation in the workshop is free of charge and we will provide lunch on all three workshop days. Unfortunately, we cannot cover any costs for travel to and accommodation in Vienna.

The workshop is open to all PhD students conducting their research in Historical and Cultural Studies. Participants must have their research projects approved – in the case of the University of Vienna, successfully passed the public presentation of their doctoral project (FÖP). It is designed for students who work with narrative interviews, look forward to sharing insights across disciplines and methods and wish to submit one of the interviews conducted as part of their research to a collaborative analysis process.

The COVID-19 regulations set by the Austrian government or the University of Vienna at the time of the event applies to all participants.

Interested PhD candidates are required to send

- a completed application form; (German or English)
- a letter of motivation (Approx. 300 words, in English)
- a CV with a list of publications (German or English)
- up to 5 pages of an interview transcription in German or English. In cases of interviews in other languages, the original text must accompany the English or German translation

as one PDF file to sharinginsights.hkw@univie.ac.at.

To address both general challenges when working with narrative interviews and the specific needs of each participant and their project, this three-day interdisciplinary workshop will include:

- Specialized input from experts in the fields of Historical and Cultural Studies
- Collaborative analysis sessions
- Space for reflection on lessons learned

The working language will be English. Collaborative sessions can also be held in German depending on the group’s composition.