Lisa Adams Wolf is Associate Professor, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing at UMass Amherst, and Director, Emergency Nursing Research at the Emergency Nurses Association. She has 20 years’ experience in education and research, and almost 30 years as a clinician. She notes that research is by its nature a disruptive process that challenges social assumptions, and would ask that you formulate research questions appropriately.

Navigating Reflexivity: A Guided Example to Move Beyond Reflection

Need guidance writing the reflexivity section of your thesis (or indeed writing reflexively throughout the thesis)? This article defines reflexivity as going beyond reflection to consider the influence of our positionality on our work. It covers three main types of reflexivity – personal reflexivity, methodological reflexivity and philosophical reflexivity – and includes some working examples to illustrate the thought processes and questions that facilitate transparency and rigor in research.

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