Are you curious about how PhD students find and use their research sources? You’re in the right place! In Episode 19 of Doctor it! PhD candidates tell us how they track down their sources in all their varied formats and how sources influence their research methodology and questions. Join our host Emily Genatowski as she speaks with Dorota Vargová, doctoral candidate in History, and Felix Maile from the Department of Development Studies about their experiences with archives and data bases. Learn about the extraordinary lengths they had to go to chase primary sources down, which ethical questions they have to deal with and why they are not using any AI tools for their analyses.

This episode was written and produced by Olga Malashkina, Emily Genatowski, and Atika Aisyarahmi Munzir, recorded and edited by Ying Liang Zhang, photographed throughout by Christian Lendl, and hosted by Emily Genatowski. Special thanks to our guests, Felix Maile and Dorota Vargová.

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