positionality – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading Trundle et al. (2025) on “Beyond the Mirror: Challenging the Common Assumptions of Reflexivity in Qualitative Research”

Mirjam — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:32:32 +0000

In Dunnett & Glessmer (2025), we pushed back on the idea that listing identity facets was a good way to do positionality statements in publication or the classroom, and stress that instead, reflection and a declaration of impact of facets was needed. And here comes a great toolkit for “robust reflexivity“! Trundle et al. (2025) […]

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Published! Dunnett & Glessmer (2025) “Positionality statements in engineering education: A European perspective”

mglessmer — Mon, 19 May 2025 10:54:16 +0000

Sharing is not always caring! And especially expecting others to share things about themselves that they might not be ready to share. The editorial “Positionality statements in engineering education: A European perspective” by Kirsty and myself that is now published (contact me for a pdf if you don’t have access!) has been in the works […]

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Reading up on the purpose, pros and cons of positionality statements

mglessmer — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:17:18 +0000

Reading up on more positionality statement discussions for ongoing work with Kirsty, which started from us drawing up our own positionality statements and discussing the differences [see hers and mine — and I would do mine substantially different now after a lot of thinking has gone into the topic!], and then us reading an article […]

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Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: “Thinking about my positionality as a teacher and researcher in physics education and academic development”

mglessmer — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:13:23 +0000

I thought a lot, and wrote (e.g. here), about my positionality in relation to my work recently, inspired by conversations with, and nudging by, Kirsty. Below, I am posting her response to my blog post, where she shares her reflections on her own positionality and also on why and how we need to be careful with […]

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Thinking about my positionality as a teacher and researcher in academic development

mglessmer — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:18:51 +0000

Kirsty “gave me the task” to (that sounds harsher than it was — she pointed me to a super interesting article and we agreed to both) do a concept map following the Kinchin et al. (2018) article on “Researcher-led academic development”, so before I could do that, I had to read… And that spiralled a […]

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