Finally, themes were refined and finalised to ensure they reflected the content of the data and formed a coherent narrative. Researcher positionality and reflexivity Reflexive thematic analysis is grounded in an interpretive methodology that acknowledges and celebrates researcher positionality [22]. It is ...
The researcher role was described as more of a continuous learning opportunity – an opportunity to be a perpetual student [Informant 8B: “I am not an expert on [statistics]. I have to read a lot of this and study it a lot of this. I still have some things that I don’t understand...
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Students, in the formulation of their learning questions, show a deep awareness of the need for continuous reflection on their positionality, particularly with regard to power dynamics and their position as a researcher, often from the global North. An illustrative example of how students have ...
2.3.4. Positionality In thematic analysis, researcher experience is considered a valued resource, provided a reflexive approach is taken, i.e., the authors reflect on the ways that their existing knowledge and experiences shapes the development of codes and themes (Braun & Clarke, 2022). Both ...
4.1Positionality statement Since this article focuses on reflection, we start by reflecting on our own backgrounds and perspectives in this study [68]. Author 1 is a HCI researcher with an ongoing interest in personal informatics and sleep-tracking. As founder and organiser of a local Quantified ...
3.3. The Role of Researcher Positionality in the Study My positionality was a key factor in students’ articulating counterstories because, in a lot of ways, the participants and I are similar in terms of racial and socioeconomic backgrounds but different because of the educational institutions we...
Additionally, a constructivist research perspective recognises the researcher’s role and positionality as both a strength that aids data interpretation and as a weakness that potentially limits and colours interpretation (Creswell 2014). In response to these concerns, the case study design and sampling...
that would allow her to "tell the story of her ancestors" while at the same time having a separate question where she would mark only one box to denote that her street race or relational positionality in hierarchies of race is not that of a white Latina or Black Latina but of a Brown ...