“…Instead of focusing on how positionality arising from individual identity can impact the research process (see Harrison and Michelson 2022;Hartman et al 2022;and Kim et al 2022 in this symposium), we hone in on aspects of an OP as a whole that may affect its interactions with researchers and participants and the research process. These features may include an OP's funding source(s), its mission, where it is based and whether it is international or local, its political allegiances (or lack thereof ), whether it is a government agency or a nongovernmental organization, and its role in the study.…”