“It Puts Them in the Role of Zoo Animals”: Gatekeeping, Research Fatigue and Over-Researched Populations in Czech Social Work Research

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Table 1. Communication partners (researchers).

Acronym	Their gatekeepers	Target group	Interview duration
R1	Roma regional coordinators, NGOs	Roma children ages 7–11, both excluded and included	39 min
R2	social services	families with children in substandard housing, helping professions	1 h 40 min
R3	district court	children involved in court proceedings (case files)	56 min
R4	social services	women in private sex business	50 min
R5	NGOs, prison managers	children of parents serving prison sentence, individuals serving prison sentence	1 h 6 min
R6	social and community workers	excluded families	1 h 5 min
R7	community workers	excluded families	1 h 2 min
R8	general directorate, prison directors	prison employees	1 h 18 min
R9	employment office, ministry, municipal authorities	officials	54 min
R10	publicly known activists, community leaders	population at risk of displacement living in selected communities	51 min
R11	school principals	teachers in schools working with children in substandard housing	50 min
R12	schools, child protection services, employment office, ministry, health insurance company, Institute of Health Information and Statistics, NGOs	families with children in substandard housing	1 h 16 min

Table 2. Communication partners (gatekeepers).

Acronym	Type of gatekeeper	Function/organization	Interview duration
G1	Institutional	Methodist of Department for Social Inclusion, Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic	45 min
G2	Informal	Community worker in NGO implementing community work in a segregated locality	1 h 3 min
G3	Formal	Deputy director of the NGO providing social services	57 min
G4	Formal	Director of the NGO providing social services	1 h 11 min
G5	Institutional	Methodist of city magistrate	50 min
G6	Institutional	Methodist of region office	28 min