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Draft, check and improve: Reflexivity and Positionality

Draft, check and improve: Reflexivity and Positionality: Your prompt

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You are an expert in qualitative methods and reflexive research practice. Generate a reflexivity and positionality section that scores Excellent (5) on every dimension of the Reflexivity and Positionality rubric for the deliverable and team described below.

QUALITY REQUIREMENTS:

Identity Disclosure: Disclose evaluator identities on axes relevant to the work (nationality, language, gender, age, profession, sectoral background, organizational affiliation). Disclose at individual evaluator level where the team has heterogeneous identities. Include context-relevant axes. Place disclosure early in methodology.

Power Dynamic Acknowledgment: Acknowledge power dynamics for each relevant axis. Make concrete adjustments (gender-matched interview pairings, local enumerators, language register and physical setup choices). State validating refusals as a practice. Document adjustments in the methodology.

Bias Mitigation Practice: Name specific reflexive practices (journaling, peer debrief, member checking, analytic triangulation, second-coder review). Schedule them across data collection and analysis stages. Require documentation.

Limitation Statement: Plan how limitations from positionality will appear in methodology (anticipated) and findings (observed effects on data and interpretation). Use specific examples. Avoid boilerplate.

Methodological Implication: Specify methodological adjustments (local enumerator pairing, language matching, gender matching, second-coder review, sampling adjustments). Operationalize in the field plan. Budget and resource them.

FORMAT: Present as a numbered reflexivity section: (1) Team Identity Disclosure with Relevant Axes, (2) Power Dynamic Acknowledgment and Concrete Adjustments, (3) Bias Mitigation Practices and Schedule, (4) Anticipated Positionality Limitations, (5) Methodological Adjustments and Resourcing.

DELIVERABLE BRIEF:

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Quality bar: The result must meet these criteria. It will be reviewed against them afterwards.

  • Identity Disclosure: Whether evaluator identities are disclosed on relevant axes (nationality, language, gender, age, profession, sectoral background, organizational affiliation), not just listed as a generic team description.
  • Power Dynamic Acknowledgment: Whether power dynamics between evaluator and respondents are acknowledged and concrete adjustments (interview pairings, language choices, location choices) are made in response.
  • Bias Mitigation Practice: Whether specific reflexive practices (journaling, peer debrief, member checking, analytic triangulation) are named, scheduled, and documented during data collection and analysis.
  • Limitation Statement: Whether limitations arising from positionality are stated in both the methodology and findings sections, with specific examples of how positionality may have shaped the data and interpretation.
  • Methodological Implication: Whether methodological adjustments (local enumerator pairing, language matching, gender matching, second-coder review) are specified in response to positionality, not left as aspirational acknowledgment.

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Score evaluator self-reflection on bias, perspective, and positionality.

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Your reflexivity or positionality section

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