ABSTRACT
The Higher Education Funding Councils has been managed by the state since it replaced the United Kingdom University Grants Committee in 1992, and the effects of this change have gradually spread through higher education. Autoethnography seeks to engage the writers of research in a transformational process and to foster an enlightened response in the readers and audiences of the evocative and personal texts it values as research. Autoethnography inserted itself in the picture when it was understood that all ethnographers reflectively write themselves into their ethnographies. Writing is a method of inquiry that can lead to and also promote change for the writer and also the reader. S. Holman-Jones, T. E. Adams and C. Ellis conceptualise autoethnography as the use of personal experience and personal writing to purposefully comment on/critique cultural practices; make contributions to existing research; embrace vulnerability with purpose; and create a reciprocal relationship with audiences in order to compel a response.
