So-called “positionality statements” are a threat to scientific inquiry. A foundational principle of truth-seeking is the norm of universalism: the concept that work must be judged on its own merits. ...

P ositionality statements, in which scholars declare identity categories to which they belong and indicate how such categories might bias their research, have become commonplace in the social sciences ...

On November 26, a roundtable discussion titled There’s No View from Nowhere: Embracing Positionality in Research, hosted by the CSLP, brought PhD and MA students for an in-depth conversation about the ...

How does "who we are" as researchers shape our work? In this podcast series, MEC Visiting Fellow, Anne Kirstine Rønn invites a set of colleague to discuss the concept of researcher positionality.

Marketing research has been traditionally conducted on consumers that can be described as WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic) (Firat ...

Reflexivity constitutes a foundational principle in qualitative inquiry, requiring researchers to engage in continuous self‐questioning about how their backgrounds, beliefs and positionalities shape ...

In psychology, there is a stigma against conducting me-search, or self-relevant research about one’s own identity or experiences. This bias overshadows the fact that self-relevant research is common ...

In his article, Dr Shah, Reader in Culture and Law at Queen Mary University of London, explores the issue of white European researchers being required to address their “positionality” in funding ...

This intervention introduces the concept of multisensory positionality. Grounded in the theoretical discussions around intersectionality and positionality (Anthias 2002; 2008; Yuval Davis 2006) in ...