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If i can put my twopenneth in, D2I, I really think you should just get rid of her. She sounds totally unprofessional, and I think you might be better off having only one decent supervisor, than one who seems to be sabotaging you. Can you explore this possibility, with your good supervisor or with the head of research students? (if such a person is around?)
Blimey! You guys are all living in the 21st century! Unfortunately, my dept is not. When i asked for a recorder, they plonked down this 1970's enormous brown thing (remember, with great big buttons, about the size of an armchair?).
Anyhoo, I managed to borrow a digital recorder from a friend, which makes life easier, but I think asking for a pedal-thingy would be like asking for the moon on a stick.
Dan'B', I do have to transcribe them myself, partly cos of confidentiality, as I promised my participants I would, but also because my supervisors said I should so that i am fully 'immersed' in the data. But I'm so immersed I'm drowning!
In a similar vein to 'writing-up nightmare', is anyone in the social sciences yet at the most mundane bit (so far)?
And, if so, any tips?
I'm finding its taking me an hour to transcribe about 7-minutes worth of dialogue, and I'm feeling like I'll never get out of this phase - there's just sooo many hours of interviews waiting to be transcribed..............it's soul-destroying.
My problem is that theres a lecturer at my Uni who never stops enjoying telling me that PhD students are the lowest of the low and, although they of course dont deserve it, its just how it is. But he's the only one who says this to me, and no-one else treats me like a second-class citizen - except for him tellling me that i should be! Its done under a veil of concern but always feels quite manipulative to me.
Mine lasted an hour, although they told me when i got in there that I'd passed. But the questions were PhD research-oriented - why choose that methodology, why that number of Ps, picked up a couple of ethical problems, whats my Plan B for recruitment.... i found the questions challenging but not unanswerable....(social sciences, by the way)
Hope that helps!
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