Exploring experiences of Transgender individuals within the CJS

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  A gender informed look at navigating receiving support within the criminal justice system: A Multi-perspectival Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis exploring the lived experiences of transgender individuals within a forensic setting, and the staff who support them

• IRAS ID

  310614

• Contact name

  Abbie Woodhouse

• Contact email

  abbiewoodhouse@nhs.net

• Sponsor organisation

  Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 0 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  The study will use Multi Perspectival Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as a means of exploring the lived experiences of people who identify as transgender who are residing in a forensic environment, and exploring similarities and differences between these perspectives and those of the staff who support them.
  The inherent aim of multi-perspectival IPA is to maintain a strong connection to the hermeneutic and ideological principles underpinning phenomenological research, whilst accounting for relational and socially nuanced lived experiences (Glasscoe & Smith, 2011). This allows for the perspectives of more than one group to be explored (i.e. those who identify as transgender and their staff), offering a voice to those who may be left unheard when limiting to homogenous recruitment, without diluting the theoretic skeleton which maintains IPA methodology. Larkin, Shaw & Flowers (2018) likened multi perspectival IPA to “surfing the same wave”, where subsamples of inherently related groups are submerged within the same phenomenological experiences, but are likely to hold differential views regarding it.

• REC name

  London - Hampstead Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  23/LO/0798

• Date of REC Opinion

  19 Sep 2023

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion