Walking the tightrope of change: co-produced academic writing collaborations

• In Event: Challenges in qualitative research II

Abstract

In this paper Donna Arrondelle will talk about the two projects employing a knowledge equity methodology, co-writing an academic book chapter and a criminology journal article with two co-author adult experts by experience of incarceration. The paper considers these collaborations through the lenses of discursive and productive power, exploring them as sites of contestation. The two projects examined different substantive topics, i) friendships in prison and ii) imprisoned work and prison leadership. Donna will reflect on how the principles of knowledge equity were enacted in practice, questions and tensions that emerged as the work evolved, and the opportunities and complexities afforded by these type of collaborations.

Author

• Donna Arrondelle, University of Southampton