Thanks for that advice. When you came to transcribe how easy was it using digital files? A friend of mine used tapes and then had a very good transcription machine with a foot pedal to stop and start playback - did you use a similar device for the digital files?
Thanks
J

Has anyone used a laptop etc for recording fieldwork interviews? If so, what software did you use and was it better or worse than using traditional tapes etc when you actually do the interviews and critically when you need to transcribe them?
Cheers
JAmes

If you're applying in the republic I don't think the IRCHSS (Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences) is much less competitive than the AHRC or ESRC - if you look at who sits on the IRCHSS board, alot of them are british anyway and so should be judging work at a standard level...