Justiss Burry<\/a> for the work on creating this synthesis.<\/p>\nMain Takeaways<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n- Articulating your positionality in your work and establishing authority is imperative to the work that you engage in.<\/li>\n
- Remembering who you are a researcher and person will help you ethically discern what\u2019s oftentimes the best move for those in the study you\u2019re a part of.<\/li>\n
- Ethics is an important part of your practice and should be made explicitly aware to you and others in research.<\/li>\n
- Positionality necessitates a continuum of experience in decision making that changes over time.<\/li>\n
- The field should really be looking to graduate students and their projections in RHM as a marker to help move the field forward.<\/li>\n
- RHM identity can afford a lot of really rich interdisciplinary relationship building across units.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Positionality in Practice<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n- Sometimes you just have to stop interviews and have empathy for people who are going through a rough time with their health.<\/li>\n
- When should you leave a study because one is too close to it or you don\u2019t feel like you are a part of that group? In other words, how does one know when the ethics should help determine when to leave a study?<\/li>\n
- How do we articulate our positionality in our work in a way that doesn’t alienate readers but also keeps our authority established and that kind of decision whether we’re going to publish in a place where you can articulate your positionality adequately or a place that you can’t?<\/li>\n
- Maybe there is something to owning that we are not and cannot be objective, and people in both discussion hubs agreed that mentioning this is helpful, but may complicate how to make this move for various stakeholders.\n
\n- One way to do this is to consider your methodological approach because this move allows the reader to better understand why we make the decisions we do about data or the methods that we’ve engaged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Positionality is definitely a part of the methodology\/methods that you employ in your work.<\/li>\n
- The concepts of objectivity and impersonality are important, in acknowledging that you are subjective without revealing who you are. This helps participants understand that they don\u2019t have to reveal more about their lives than they want expressed in the data, although this sometimes happens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Whose Position?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n- Who gets to choose who the gatekeepers of our work and health are and how do we ethically get their input? For example, think about persons living with schizophrenia.<\/li>\n
- Also, we have to consider that gatekeepers of health will invariably change over time, so figuring out how to attune to, and negotiate, these spaces is important.<\/li>\n
- Graduate students tend to feel a little lost in the research positions as they navigate their ways through their work and programs at various institutions.<\/li>\n
- Navigating that you hate the thing you\u2019re researching, but intending to help figure the thing out is hard when it comes to positionality.<\/li>\n
- Early career scholars should look to the intended audience(s) for their work as it may help determine where their positions may be best suited according to their own ideologies\/selves.<\/li>\n
- It is often difficult to express what RHM means in your work and practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Future Considerations<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n- How can we continue to be reflective practitioners when researching topics that we are highly invested in? What tips or techniques should we use?<\/li>\n
- What about researching in communities we do not belong to?<\/li>\n
- What ways can we define positionality in relation to our teaching, research, service, and what are the stakes of those different definitions?<\/li>\n
- How are some ways that graduate students can learn about their positionalities as they learn more about the field and what the work in the field looks like?<\/li>\n
- How can more experienced RHM folks help early career folks understand how to position themselves in relation to their careers and to the work they do?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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