Ethics in Autoethnography research

This paper will discuss two ethical concerns that autoethnography research raises: 1. Risk to the researcher. Issues around the researcher’s self-care and safety (Tolich, 2010) are fundamental. 2. Protecting subjects that appear in the narratives (Relational ethics). The research also involves others’ lives in the researcher’s narrative. In Tamas’s (2011) autoethnography work, she concludes “We are never ethically home free.”, which shows the implications and ambiguity of the ethics in autoethnography work in which we, as researchers continue to be invested, even after the research had been ‘completed’. I use one of my narratives to discuss and address ethical considerations.