Dr. M. Isabel Kamlongera
GlobalEd Faculty Lead in the Decolonization of Epistemology and Research Methods
Dr M.I. Kamlongera has a PhD in Educational Sciences for Teacher Education from Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway. She additionally holds an MA in Communication and Development and an M.Ed Critical Studies from Ohio University, U.S.A. She was a GlobalEd Early Career Research Fellow in 2023.
Her academic interests include exploring critical approaches to research within the fields of gender, media, and development. Her research efforts are geared towards a decolonial approach to telling narratives and creating knowledge together with marginalized groups.
Featured Publication
‘So what’s arts got to do with it?’: An autoethnography of navigating researcher positionality while co-creating knowledge, Qualitative Research, 23(3), 651-667
In this autoethnography, I share about my journey navigating multiple researcher positionalities. I commence with a reflection on how one of my positionalities as an ‘outsider-within’ influences my onto-epistemological stance and approach to the research. Through my shared case, where I am a ‘marginal intellectual’ with an intersectional researcher positionality, I highlight the complexities of negotiating power in co-creating knowledge with participants whilst navigating the insider/outsider/in-between researcher positions. I illustrate how a reflexive methodology incorporating Arts-Based processes (ABP) facilitated navigation of power dynamics in order to mitigate the ‘representation crisis’ often resulting from researcher positionalities.