... researcher from the Global South, currently conducting research at a Western university. She has employed autoethnography as a method to create meaningful connections between her personal lived experiences and the social world. Her observations are informed by her positionality as an early-career researcher...

... in the paper will help early career disaster researchers to ground their positionality and purpose in their own academic journeys. As early career researchers (ECRs), we learn to engage with experienced academics and past research trajectories as well as current debate in our field through...