#positionality — Public Fediverse posts

--> Qual data is created by #human curation, interpretation and repeated investigation. Any (semi) automated extraction mechanism will have to at least mimick the guardrails that qual researchers have to ensure rigor of their work. On top of it, some of those tools (e.g. #positionality statements) will also be useful for other (quant) parts of the pipeline.
!! This would assume a context where we allow researchers to bring their biases and beliefs into the research process.!!!

What does #Openness in Research mean? Last Friday, we reflected with a group of researchers on their own backgrounds, #assumptions and research #values. We discussed how openness is a brave thing in #research and how personal backgrounds influence the research we are doing.

You can find the blogpost about the workshop on #positionality statements on our website: https://reproducibilitynetwork.nl/2025/10/02/open-by-reflection-candidness-for-more-transparent-science/

All training materials on #zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/17174961

#OpenResearch #OpenScience #Reproducibility

Webinar: "Qualitative Open #Research: Meaningful Exchange and Mutual Learning."

Michelle Jamieson and Nicki Lisa Coole will present on what #qualitative open research means and how #positionality statements, a technique used by many qualitative researchers, can help opening up research processes independent of research methodologies.

Date: 16 October 2025
Time: 10-12 am (Amsterdam Time)
Follow this link to register: https://reproducibilitynetwork.nl/event/qualitative-open-research-meaningful-exchange-and-mutual-learning/

#QualitativeResearch #OpenScholarship

Positionality statements can help researchers to reflect on their own research process and can be a first step towards opening and sharing this process.
We will use writing prompts to guide attendees towards a first draft of their positionality statement. Attendees will be working with a workbook and are invited to write with pen on paper for this session.

#QualitativeResearch #OpenScience #PenAndPaper #ResearchProcess #OpenScienceNL #Positionality #QuantitativeResearch #ResearchMethods

Positionality statements can help researchers to reflect on their own research process and can be a first step towards opening and sharing this process.
We will use writing prompts to guide attendees towards a first draft of their positionality statement. Attendees will be working with a workbook and are invited to write with pen on paper for this session.

#QualitativeResearch #OpenScience #PenAndPaper #ResearchProcess #OpenScienceNL #Positionality #QuantitativeResearch #ResearchMethods

Positionality statements can help researchers to reflect on their own research process and can be a first step towards opening and sharing this process.
We will use writing prompts to guide attendees towards a first draft of their positionality statement. Attendees will be working with a workbook and are invited to write with pen on paper for this session.

#QualitativeResearch #OpenScience #PenAndPaper #ResearchProcess #OpenScienceNL #Positionality #QuantitativeResearch #ResearchMethods

Positionality statements can help researchers to reflect on their own research process and can be a first step towards opening and sharing this process.
We will use writing prompts to guide attendees towards a first draft of their positionality statement. Attendees will be working with a workbook and are invited to write with pen on paper for this session.

#QualitativeResearch #OpenScience #PenAndPaper #ResearchProcess #OpenScienceNL #Positionality #QuantitativeResearch #ResearchMethods

Positionality statements can help researchers to reflect on their own research process and can be a first step towards opening and sharing this process.
We will use writing prompts to guide attendees towards a first draft of their positionality statement. Attendees will be working with a workbook and are invited to write with pen on paper for this session.

#QualitativeResearch #OpenScience #PenAndPaper #ResearchProcess #OpenScienceNL #Positionality #QuantitativeResearch #ResearchMethods

Helpful roundup by Mirjam Glessmer of recent pieces on #positionality statements and reflexivity in research

https://mirjamglessmer.com/2024/12/17/reading-up-on-the-purpose-pros-and-cons-of-positionality-statements/

@ChrisMayLA6 Highlighting the importance of #positionality is one of the great contributions of #feminist research. What is #Reeves ' background? - and what are the rules for punctuating hashtags?

For archives and libraries folks: Should descriptive metadata record the processes by which collections have been described? I've been arguing that it's important for finding aids to include information about who created the descriptions and how they've been revised over time.

An article I wrote came out last month: "Archival meta-metadata: revision history and positionality of finding aids"
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-024-09443-z

#archives #metadata #positionality

Choux Questionnaire
with ChatGPT

David Szanto

#ChouxQuestionnaire #ChatGPT #Positionality #FoodVoice

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/688

Choux Questionnaire
with ChatGPT

David Szanto

#ChouxQuestionnaire #ChatGPT #Positionality #FoodVoice

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/688

@cgervasi
i get your point, but plenty of academics are already onto a better solution: including #positionality statements, which effectively outline your #intersectional background and potential biases as an author (which of course, are never exhaustive as no one has perfect self-awareness). this helps us train each other to think of the different lenses we wear when witnessing something, or recounting, or hearing second- or third-hand. in turn, we can craft better feedback if there are inaccuracies or missing nuances, extend grace as appropriate, etc. objectivity really is a myth, and the sooner more people realize, acknowledge, and promote that, the better off we’ll all be.
@dangillmor

"Reflexive practices are intended to help researchers to consider how their position may have detrimental or underappreciated influence on a study. There is perhaps no field in better need of such reflection than data science."

Cambo and Gergle, Model Positionality and Computational Reflexivity: Promoting Reflexivity in Data Science, https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501998

#machinelearning #positionality #reflexivity

Argument that #journals should require #OpenScience, not author #positionality statements.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/ideological-signaling-has-no-role-in-research
(#paywalled)

"If we suspected the quality of [a given piece of] research, transparent #OpenData could allow other researchers of any background to thoroughly fact-check it. But the authors’ assurances that they are antiracist, intersectional feminists tell us only that they are on the 'right' team."

Reflexivity is not just for qualitative researchers:

“In this paper, we make the case for integrating reflexivity across all research approaches, before providing a ‘beginner's guide’ for quantitative researchers wishing to engage reflexively with their own work.”

Jamieson et al. (2023):

Published (shareable?) version: https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SU2KRDNH8NGVDQ2IZYFX?target=10.1111/spc3.12735

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xvrhm

@socialpsych
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#ResearcherBias
#Reflexivity
#Quantitative
#Qualitative
#Positionality

That’s me done for the day. I spent this afternoon writing about having an invisible disability researching other people with invisible disabilities; I can’t easily hide that I am white, female, middle class and English, but I could, and often do, hide my identity as a disabled person at work. Trying to unpick this #positionality #reflexivity #qualitativeresearch #disability #identity

I spent the afternoon following up references for my #positionality and #reflexivity paper. I wanted to talk about #intersectionality as race, gender and class have all impacted on my #fieldwork, but I’m not sure there’s room. I might end up having to just talk about #gender OR #class, IDK #qualitativeresearch #criminology