Month: December 2024

A new dataset titled ‘Orientation Systems in Public Transportation and the Cultural Dimension of Uncertainty Avoidance – A Behavioral and Semiotic Analysis of Selected European Cities,’ authored by Dr. Kamil Olender of the University of Wroclaw, has been published in the QDA. The dataset contains materials produced under the ‘Miniatura’ grant of the National Science Center, Poland. The study evaluated orientation systems in public transportation in the context of the identity elements of the city and region. The theoretical background of the project was based on Geert Hofstede’s concept of cultural dimensions.

On November 29, 2024, Maciej Melon from the QDA team and Magdalena Bielinska from the Open Science Platform operating within the Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling at the UW conducted an online training on research data management and the use of the Social Data Repository (https://rds.icm.edu.pl/). The training was intended for employees of the University of Lodz Library and was divided into two parts: a discussion of the basics of research data management with a presentation of the repository, and instructions for depositing a sample dataset.

On November 27, during the Oral History Seminar, Ms. Monika Szewczyk, a PhD student at The Doctoral School in the Social Sciences at Jagiellonian University, presented an interview on participation in protests related to the tightening of abortion laws, conducted as part of a biographical method class taught by Prof. Grażyna Kubica.

The Oral History Seminars are co-organized by the Faculty of Culture and Arts at the University of Warsaw, the Qualitative Data Archive at IFiS PAN, and the Polish Oral History Association. The initiative is under the patronage of the “Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej (Wrocław Yearbook of Oral History)”. If you would like to participate in future meetings or receive more information, please contact us: seminariumoralhistory@gmail.com.