ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author suggests that storying oneself can offer the necessary detachment that is needed when seeking a viewpoint from which to examine one's lived experiences. The effect of the audit culture had a damaging effect on her professional and personal life, and this has motivated her to explore and discuss the impact of neoliberalism via the production of evocative texts. The author suggests that fictionalizing the self can provide a viable contribution to work seeking to explore and also resist the effects of neoliberalism and male-hierarchical environments that are synonymous with higher education (HE), on individual lives and on academic culture. The relationship between creative and personal writing and academic work is evolving and strengthening within qualitative research, and this practice can be used to critique and explore the emerging audit culture in HE.
