Remembering and anticipating researcher vulnerability: an autoethnographic tale

Whilst there is nascent literature surrounding researcher vulnerability, little known about how memories and anticipations can elicit vulnerabilities, vulnerable academic writing still be met with some scepticism. In this paper, I therefore provide an autoethnographic narrative of my encounters vulnerability during research into tattoos, time, death. My tale revolves around three themes: Remembering (Un)anticipating Fluctuating vulnerabilities. doing so, reveal not only vulnerabilities fluctuate through time space, but also past future stir present-day Ultimately, move beyond the ‘vulnerability as failure’ framing by helping to encourage culture that celebrates being open more vulnerably.