ABSTRACT
As Paltridge (2012), Hecq (2015) and others have noted, creative arts research is currently contested, which presents challenges for postgraduate and early career researchers. This chapter explores those challenges through duoethnography, a methodology for making meaning through ‘writing in the form of a play script’ (Given, 2012, p. 8). We write as two recent PhD graduates and early career researchers whose areas concern theatre and creative writing respectively. We reflect on factors that have impacted us and on the implications this may have for other creative academics. These factors include changing processes of research evaluation, arts funding cuts and gender-based social norms.
