With COVID-19 social distancing we are currently looking at ways to offer training online.
All upcoming events are posted on our website, social media and in our newsletter.

Oral History NSW conducts training sessions and information seminars throughout the year for members and anyone interested in learning more about oral history. If you are interested in receiving oral history training for your small group and can provide a suitable venue,
please get in touch with us to discuss further.

OUR POPULAR SESSIONS INCLUDE:

An Introduction to Oral History: Key Principles Everyone Should Know
In this introductory 2 hour seminar, we explore some of the key ideas behind oral history as a research methodology and will outline important steps in planning oral history projects, including tips on preparing for, undertaking and preserving interviews.

Capturing Memories: Oral History In The Digital Age
This full day introductory workshop will equip you to undertake your own oral history interviews.
Topics include: introduction to oral history and the nature and reliability of memory, preparing and structuring an oral history interview, ethical issues, ownership, copyright and appropriate documentation, choosing and using a digital recorder, processing the interview – preparing a summary log, interview transcription, aided by free downloadable software, saving sound files, storage and preservation.

Mastering the Recording
This hands-on full day workshop helps you become confident with the technical side of oral history.
You will learn: the recommended ways to set up your digital recorder, microphone placement, editing and processing audio using Audacity, and backing up and archiving your work.

Interpreting Memories: An Advanced Oral History Workshop
How do we make sense of the memories that we record as oral historians? How do we begin to transform stories into histories? In this advanced half day workshop with oral historian Alistair Thomson you will consider a range of ways of approaching the interpretation of memories.