...Edwin Sam-Mbomah Purpose In this paper, I critically reflect on my research positionality in conducting disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change adaptation (CCA) research in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Positioned both as an insider, due to my cultural and contextual familiarity...

...Hannah K. Friedrich; Yajaira Ayala; Jen Liu; Melissa Villarreal Purpose This paper reiterates the intention and importance of positionality statements, encouraging researchers to approach positionality through vignettes to engage with our role and impact as scholars rather than as a formulaic...

...Shinya Uekusa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the current discourse on researcher positionality in disaster research and it aims to enhance disaster researchers’ reflexivity, using Bourdieu’s capital, field and habitus theories. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual...

... with other researchers from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds created space to both listen and find a voice. Emerging themes were positionality, how knowledge is used and implications for research practice. Researchers are part of a living system with the potential to serve, exploit or damage...