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Researcher positionality

Positionality has become an important concept in research literature. Who is the researcher? What is his/her relationship to the research participants? How does this affect the knowledge that is produced?

Helena Margrethe Strandli Schmidt, Tonje Baugerud and Marta Bivand Erdal

Helena Margrethe Strandli Schmidt, Tonje Baugerud and Marta Bivand Erdal

FAITHED researcher Marta Bivand Erdal, human geographer and research professor in migration studies at PRIO, is the keynote speaker at the workshop "Positionality in research and teaching – why should we care? Some reflections" at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Wednesday 15 March 9:00 AM11:30 AM, hosted by the research group Ethical spaces.

Marta has reflected on the subject in several publications, as in "En av oss, en utenforstående, eller noe imellom? Posisjonalitet i forskning blant katolikker i Norge", pp. 140–159 in A. Aschim, O. Hovdelien and H. K. Sødal (red.)(2016), Kristne migranter i Norden, Portal/Cappelen Damm, and in J. Carling, M. B. Erdal and R. Ezzati,  "Beyond the insider–outsider divide in migration research"Migration Studies, 2(1), 2014, pp. 36–54.

Tags: FAITHED, migration, positionality By Anders Aschim
Published Mar. 2, 2023 2:52 PM - Last modified Mar. 2, 2023 10:33 PM