Training

The first internship hosted by Mobilab–the Digital Laboratory for Mobility Research has started in January 2021. Miriam from Local Development and Trung from Mobility Studies, two of DiSSGeA’s international Master programmes will be trained by Dr. Chiara Rabbiosi on the use of Atlas.ti, one of the most famous software for computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. This way, interviews and photos collected by Dr. Rabbiosi as part of her Travelling ideas of Europe pilot research project will be coded in a digitally supported participatory way. More internships will start in the next future fostering the role of MobiLab as a hub where students can learn how to do mobility & humanities research in practice, in line with the aims and scope of DiSSGeA’s project of excellence.

The MobiLab just acquired a few Atlas.ti and Nvivo licences. Whereas most software used in the digital humanities favors a quantitative approach, Atlas and Nvivo are made for a qualitative analysis of unstructured data: the researcher reads, listen or watch (the software can be used for a variety of media) her files, tags portions of the texts according to the topic of her research and manually creates relationships between the sources. It is much more complicated than it sounds! That is why in the coming months the Mobilab staff will receive extensive training in both Altas.ti and Nvivo and Nvivo will be the object of a dedicated workshop in our September summer school!