A practical guide to positionality and position statements
This resource aims to support individual researchers, or research teams and centres, in considering
their positionality. It begins with an overview of what positionality is, and why it is important in our
research work, and this is followed by an invitation to explore positionality through a mapping
exercise. This aims to support the translation from conceptual understanding into a tangible
conceptualisation which can be revisited and reviewed as appropriate
A series of principles are listed and developed below, for you to consider. Students have argued that these principles are best considered within supervisory teams as a self-reflection process during the initial stages of the PhD journey. They are designed to support teams in considering what they need as individuals, and as a group, from the supervision relationship, and how to manage expectations. Then, as time and the relationships develop, principles can be extended and amended according to their own experience.
Self-auditing guide for research centres
The aim of this guide is to support research centres and institutes at DMU (and wider) to look at their research and related activities with a decolonising lens. Conversations about coloniality have been applied to methodologies and epistemologies. However, this might usefully be developed in relation to research centre and institute activities such as reading groups, external speakers, seminars, conferences, who we invite as external examiners, PhD supervision teams,
international staff and student support etc.
Decolonising DMU 