Negotiating relationships between researchers, gatekeepers, and hard-to-reach groups of population as a challenge for social work research

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Negotiating relationships between researchers, gatekeepers, and hard-to-reach groups of population as a challenge for social work research

Original language description

OBJECTIVES: In this paper, we try to answer the question of how social work research collaboration with gatekeepers is negotiated, and how it is maintained or hindered during the research process. THEORETICAL BASE: We are based on critical theory. Critical research on gatekeepers that takes into account the power position of the "intermediary" can help understand not only the benefits of gatekeeper involvement, but also the barriers to cooperation and the gatekeeper's manipulation strategies. METHODS: The presented literature review looks at the different relationships that exist between researchers, gatekeepers, and socially excluded people. Based on an analysis of thirty research papers, we identified barriers and catalysts to negotiating research relationships between researchers, gatekeepers, and hard-to-reach groups, and described two theoretical conceptions of collaboration with gatekeepers in social work research. RESULTS: These conceptions deal with vertical and horizontal social ties, relationships of power and trust between actors in the research process. Gaining researcher access to hard-to-reach groups through gatekeepers has been shown to be a dynamic interactive process that takes place within certain more or less given frameworks of opportunities and barriers. SOCIAL WORK IMPLICATIONS: This article provides a unique insight into the findings relevant to research on various hard-to-reach, hidden and vulnerable populations in social work.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociální práce / Sociálna práca / Czech and Slovak Social Work

ISSN

1213-6204

e-ISSN

1805-885X

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

4-17

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85175168690