Discovering New Connections: Insights From Individual and Collective Reflexivity in a Mixed Methods Study

Through intentionally engaging in reflexivity, researchers can be transparent about potential areas of social inquiry and analysis that might subject to a priori assumptions, personal biases, interpretations are not rooted the data. In context conducting research with others, reflexivity also includes collective dimension which each researcher’s positionality interacts others shapes outcomes. Fostering within interdisciplinary teams enables process conflicting perspectives, allow creative innovative approaches emerge, develop shared vision concepts, methods, Despite its acknowledged value, integral is rarely documented mixed methods inquiry. this article, we describe through individual team insights gained study examined lived experiences perceptions breastfeeding among African American women their support partners. We three components practice engaged in: 1) Self-led; 2) Relational team-led; 3) Methods-focused team-led. discuss how challenged, shaped, enriched data analysis, integration, finally, our understanding findings.