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Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison

Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
This paper critically reflects on conducting research with people in prison, including gaining trust and building rapport, and the power imbalances of conducting research in the prison setting. Navigating trust and power is key to successful prison-based research, but these navigations are not confined to the researcher–participant interaction and extend to include researcher entry into the prison and earlier processes such as the ethics application submission. Existing ‘how-to’ guides for prison-based research often draw on ethnographic studies which allow substantial time for the interviewer to build rapport with key prison contacts, including officers, as well as opportunity for people in prison to become familiar with the ethnographer’s presence prior to data collection. Drawing on prison-based research experience from three qualitative health studies pertaining to people in prison living with hepatitis C and/or history of injecting drug use (the primary risk factor for hepatitis C transmission), I consider challenges of access and strategies for on-the-spot rapport building with people in prison. The approaches outlined may be applicable to research with other population groups in which power imbalances may exist.

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Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 09/22/2022 | Link to this post on IFP |
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