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I’m working for Professor Anne MacLennan and her research is all about radio in the 1930s. It’s a RAY position and I’ve done interviews with seniors about their memories of radio. We’ve done over 600 interviews for the project.Canada Goose. There is a whole team that has been doing interviews and I’ve done about 60 or so interviews throughout the year and a half I’ve worked for Anne. I’ve also done transcriptions of all those interviews using speech to text software. I’ve done microfilm work, reading over newspapers from the ’30s, and I’ve done achieves work from CBC documents. It’s a lot of field research, taking to different retirement homes to find seniors to interview. It’s difficult to find people to interview that age, so we did a lot of contact calls and went out and tried to find contacts to interview.

I am in communications so I’ve learned a lot about radio during the 1930s because it’s not always something that is talked about in class. As well, Canada Goose,it’s been really helpful for me to give me an idea of what research is like and it’s helped me figure out that I want to go ahead and do a masters and do my own research projects. It was really helpful in putting together my masters applications.

For sure finding seniors to interview is the quirkiest thing because we’re phoning them up and they have no idea what we’re talking about. Probably the weirdest is when we were trying to find interviews for the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, because we are trying to get interviews from across Canada. We set up one interview with an old lady and we spoke to her daughter about it and the old lady didn’t speak English, but we didn’t know that at the time. I set up the interview for my colleague who was going to the interview and he got in touch with the Canada Goose lady and she didn’t speak English what so ever.

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