My first dissertation-related paper is published!
My paper ‘Researcher reflections from an urban lab: best practices and barriers of walkable urbanism via a 15-minute neighbourhood lens in Warsaw’ was published this week in Cities & Health journal.
It was published under a unique category called ‘Reflective praxis’, which is devoted to papers that share less about results and more about reflection on the research and process.
I took the opportunity of this paper to:
- Explore my positionality as an urban researcher
- Discuss why I center issues of spatial equity and inclusivity in my research on the 15-minute city approach
- Reflect on developing my first urban lab
- Document insights about facilitating workshops across the lab approach
- Document insights on the coordination and organization of the lab
- Document ideas for methodological improvements of lab development
- Discuss the importance of community partnerships for lab and workshop development
- Share insights on the conceptual and pedagogical potential of the workshops
- Document the layer of psychological exploration of mobility and peer-to-peer exchange prioritized in this approach
- Share the benefits of capturing residential narrative in a live setting
- Explaining and exploring place attachment (including in relation to issues of proximity and localism)
- Insights on mitigating misunderstandings related to the #15minutecity concept
- and more…
This is a very exciting start for me in publishing dissertation-related work and a very special way to begin that process via sharing reflections about the process. All those juicy insights and revelations that happen during fieldwork can easily ‘slip away’ with time, so it was constructive for me to not only take copious notes during my fieldwork about the process itself but also be able to compile them into this paper.
I look forward to continuing such a process with future research!
-Annika
View the paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23748834.2025.2508662
