6 Sticking your head above the parapet On the importance of researcher resilience in auto/biographical writing
Kate Woodthorpe
Introduction
Writing about your own life and recognising the impact of the personal on the professional is not a new phenomenon within social sciences. Feminists have long debated the personal/professional interface, in part fuelling and fuelled by the development of auto/biography and autoethnography as social research methods (Ellis, 2004; Kara, 2020). Auto/biographic and autoethnographic work has recognised the (potential) impact of revealing details about one’s life as an academic (Ronai, 1995; Letherby, 2022) and its use as a way to learn about oneself and your place in the world ( ...
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