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This article relates an experience of hybrid research over a period of three years involving four parents and two child protection professionals, as well as a university sociologist, all working as co-researchers. The objective of this narrative is to show how, in the course of this common enquiry, interferences between the different institutions in which the actors of the research project were embedded (the family, public policy institutions, university) turned into a process of emancipation of these actors. Three processes of emancipation can thus be distinguished: each characterized by a modality of tension between different institutional powers: emancipation through resistance to an institution, emancipation by means of dialog between institutions, and emancipation through the contamination of institutions.