Roundtable Report on Positionality in the field, 8 May 2019
Following a similar workshop held in 2016 on 'Gender in the Field', it became apparent that thinking about who we are in relation to your research environment is useful in order to prepare ourselves before going into the field, in thinking carefully about how our questions might be shaped by our position in terms of gender, sexuality, race, nationality, class, caste or religion, and how our relationship with respondents – and the answers we might get – are steeped in perceptions we have of them, and they have of us. Several PhD students discussed their experiences with positionality with students who still have to go into the field. A report of the discussion and a list of guidelines and tips can be found here.
Read the Roundtable Report on Positionality, 8 May 2019