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requirements of an academic PhD, I may have conversely ‘undermined the purposes of
writing an autoethnography’.22
Concluding Thoughts
There are other questions that I could ask myself about ethical tensions and power struggles
within my research, both at the macro and the micro level. However, I hope that I have given
the reader at least a glimpse behind the screen of my research world. By looking in some
depth at how I strive to work ethically with participants before, during and after the research
interview, I hope I have conveyed some of the lived experience of this kind of qualitative
research. In sharing the struggles I have experienced when attempting to balance competing
demands of a personal experience, creative research method, I hope that I may also
generate some conversations – or at least some reflections – on the power structures within
the academic world.

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Wall, ‘Easier said than done: Writing an autoethnography’, 44.