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Reflecting on Reflection: Strengthening the Necessarily Insider Research Framework

June 30, 2025

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When we first introduced the Necessarily Insider Research Framework (NIRF), it was designed to help Professional Practice researchers navigate the often messy, ethically charged terrain of researching from within their own practice. The framework offered evaluative questions, not as a checklist, but as a landscape – a way to orient and reflect, to challenge and […]

Learning Where Angels Fear to Tread: Evaluative Questions for Necessarily Insider Professional Practice

June 30, 2025

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In Professional Practice research, we’ve long celebrated the idea that some of the most valuable learning comes from within our own messy, lived experiences. But what happens when that messiness isn’t just inconvenient, but ethically fraught, emotionally overwhelming, or simply too complex for conventional research approaches? That was the starting point for our work on […]

Seven Times Upon an Ism: Extending the Layered Drivers Framework

June 29, 2025

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A year ago, we introduced the Layered Drivers “isms” framework building on Boehnert’s levels of sexism as a structured way to identify and act upon the complex, multi-level drivers of systemic oppression in professional settings. Since then, we’ve been busy not just talking about it, but testing and expanding it, in the messiness of real […]