The crisis of confidence in the social sciences has many corollaries which impact our research practices. One of these is a push towards maximal and mechanical objectivity in quantitative research. This stance is reinforced by major journals and …
Qualitative training rarely acknowledges the role of emotions in both data collection and analysis. While bracketing emotions is an important part of reflexivity, emotions are both a source of data and a source of ‘work’ (Hochschild, Citation1983). …
In July 2020, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering (JWM)
started requiring a positionality statement in each paper published. To the best of our
knowledge, requiring a positionality statement at JWM is a first for a journal in …