Reflexivity and interdisciplinarity: the reflexive journey of an interdisciplinary research team in disaster risk reduction
Abstract
Purpose
Reflexivity supports research teams in developing and implementing interdisciplinarity perspectives, but there is still limited literature on this topic. To fill this gap, we explore how reflexivity can support a research team in its interdisciplinary efforts to create new knowledge for disaster risk reduction.
Design/methodology/approach
We present the reflexive journey of our interdisciplinary research team consisting of Ecuador- and UK-based researchers from the social sciences, physical sciences and the arts and humanities and conducting multi-hazard research on Quito. By triangulating data obtained from different material collected during the reflexive journey, we discuss examples of how our team employed reflexivity towards interdisciplinarity.
Findings
The reflexive journey allowed our interdisciplinary team to acknowledge and give value to its diversity; to discuss disciplinary language differences, and to gradually develop interdisciplinary working practices and conversations. The journey demonstrates how reflexive practices within research teams allow researchers to overcome disciplinary differences and promote interdisciplinarity to reach research outcomes.
Originality/value
Our reflexive experience shows that adopting reflexivity can be effective in both enhancing interdisciplinarity and addressing the complex nature of risk.
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Acknowledgements
This work has been funded by UKRI GCRF under grant NE/S009000/1, Tomorrow’s Cities Hub. The reflexive journey has been a collective effort by the whole Quito Team. The authors would like to thank all the members of the Quito Team for all the inputs, in particular Elisa Puga, Maryssa Cupuerán, Alfredo Santillán, Jonathan Menoscal, Maria Antonieta Vásquez, Camilo Zapata, Francisco Vasconez, Sindicato Audiovisual, Eliana Jimenez, Ryerson Christie, Scott Watson and Joel Gill.
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Corrigendum: It has come to the attention of the publisher that the authors of the article Forino, G., Barclay, J., Armijos, M.T., Phillips, J., Córdova, M., Sevilla, E., Filippi, M.E., Apgar, M., Snijder, M., Andrade, S.D., Mejia, A. and Bedoya, M.E. (2024), “Reflexivity and interdisciplinarity: the reflexive journey of an interdisciplinary research team in disaster risk reduction”, Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-09-2023-0222 failed to include the following acknowledgement ‘For the purpose of open access, the author(s) has applied a Creative Commons attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising’ The authors sincerely apologise for this error.
Citation
Forino, G., Barclay, J., Armijos, M.T., Phillips, J., Córdova, M., Sevilla, E., Filippi, M.E., Apgar, M., Snijder, M., Andrade, S.D., Mejia, A. and Bedoya, M.E. (2024), "Reflexivity and interdisciplinarity: the reflexive journey of an interdisciplinary research team in disaster risk reduction", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-09-2023-0222
Publisher
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