It should be said that HCI4D is not alone in this
predicament. For example, Bell and Nutt (2002,
p. 70) write of the dilemma of practitioner-researchers
in the fields of health and social care, who must
acknowledge “responsibilities toward clients/service
users, fellow practitioners and organizational bodies,
other researchers, and (in the case of students)
meeting academic/university agendas relating to student
assessment . . .” This list seems equally applicable
to our field. Bell and Nutt go further to suggest
that effective “management” of those myriad responsibilities
is best achieved by education systems
that teach young researchers to be “reflective” in
their practice (p. 71). They point to a pre-existing literature
in health and social care that has defined
this notion of reflective practice.