In the United States, transportation funding generally emphasises engineering fields and applied solutions; historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups are a small share of researchers. Because of disciplinary traditions, funding, positionality, and other factors, transportation research paradigms may ...
Positionality is a critical understanding of the role a scholar’s background and current (socially constructed and perceived) position in the world plays in the production of academic knowledge, particularly in qualitative research in the social sciences. Multiple epistemologies—ways of knowing or und...
The basic premise is that each person enters research work with their own individually shaped experiences, cultural and personal, and social, political, and cultural identities. Be The Change: The Key to Unlocking Your Power KaeLyn 2018 Related Words Log in or sign up to add your own related ...
The search for that answer has led me to this point in my research on another topic. It is often incredibly enlightening to look at the way I organize my folders (years ago in hanging-folders, but I’m talking about virtual, electronic folders today) and imagine the cross-pollination that...
Although researchers are often positioned in powerful ways vis-脿-vis researchees, the multiplicity and complexity of their positionality are often overlooked. By drawing on examples from team research conducted, the article suggests that these positionings give rise to unconventional and contradictory ...
PECHURINA, A. (2014) 'Positionality and Ethics in the Qualitative Research of Migrants' Homes'.Sociological Research Online, 19(1). Online. Available at: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/19/1/4.html(accessed 10 March 2014).Pechurina A. (2014) Positionality and Ethics in the Qualitative ...
In this chapter, I outline the ethical concerns and potential methodological obstacles that can occur when conducting research with underrepresented, marginalized, or minoritized groups. Prioritizing the implications of conducting this research as a member of a dominant group and/or with privileged ...
Here, we explore how positionality shapes collaborative research through the narratives of two foreign/range-country collaborator teams doing primate research and conservation in Africa and South America. Our goal is to provide examples that consider the positionalities of range-country collaborators ...
Despite the significant progress in critical debates around sport for development (SfD) research throughout the last decade, there is still a tendency for researchers to utilise traditional dichotomies such as insider/outsider, foreign/native, and Global North/South when it comes to reflections on ...
In a 2015 qualitative research study on undergraduate college students who identified as disabled, interview data demonstrated the complex ways in which racism and ableism entwined to extend or deny benefits in a postsecondary setting. At tension in the informants' experiences was both the ...