Reflexivity and interdisciplinarity: the reflexive journey of an interdisciplinary research team in disaster risk reduction

IF 1.9 4区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Disaster Prevention and Management Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI:10.1108/dpm-09-2023-0222

Giuseppe Forino, Jenni Barclay, M. Teresa Armijos, Jeremy Phillips, Marco Córdova, Elisa Sevilla, Maria Evangelina Filippi, Marina Apgar, Mieke Snijder, S. Daniel Andrade, Adriana Mejia, María Elena Bedoya

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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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反思性和跨学科性：减少灾害风险跨学科研究小组的反思历程

目的反身性有助于研究团队发展和实施跨学科观点，但有关这一主题的文献仍然有限。为了填补这一空白，我们探讨了反身性如何支持研究团队开展跨学科工作，为减少灾害风险创造新知识。我们介绍了由厄瓜多尔和英国的社会科学、物理科学、艺术和人文科学研究人员组成的跨学科研究团队在基多开展多种灾害研究的反身性历程。通过对反思之旅中收集到的不同资料进行三角分析，我们讨论了我们的团队如何运用反思性来实现跨学科性的实例。我们的反思性经验表明，采用反思性既能有效加强跨学科性，又能解决风险的复杂性。

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4.40

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10.50%

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期刊介绍： Disaster Prevention and Management, An International Journal, sets out to advance the available knowledge in the fields of disaster prevention and management and to act as an integrative agent for extant methodologies and activities relating to disaster emergency and crisis management. Publishing high quality, refereed papers, the journal supports the exchange of ideas, experience and practice between academics, practitioners and policy-makers.