Under Construction @ Keele 2016 Volume 2 Issue 2 | Page 18

9 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. 22 Wall, ‘Easier said than done: Writing an autoethnography’, 44.