Chapter 5: The Cyclical Nature of Being Both ‘Practitioner’ and ‘Researcher’ and the Influence on Professional Development Design

The chapter explores the themes of identity, power and positionality through reflexive interviewing, where researchers can reflect on participant interactions and communicate nuanced ethical dilemmas (Olmos-Vega et al., 2023). Subjectivity is embraced whilst sharing extracts from reflexive interviews to consider what it means to be individuals, who exist in a third space between practice and research (Ostinelli, 2016, p. 542). Reflexivity is framed as a tool which develops Professional Development (PD) design.