“…Through this approach, we created insiders’ accounts of how we, with shared identities as ECRs, coped with the changes and challenges of conducting research, the application of online interview methods, and the subsequent changes in our research practice it brought about, to understand the new operationalizations of online methodologies in academia during and after the pandemic. This collective autoethnographic approach allowed us to humanize and examine the processes and outcomes of our stories as insiders ethically (Lapadat, 2017) and delve into our “multiple layers of consciousness” (Ellis & Bochner, 2000, p. 739) to scrutinize “transient, nuanced and complicated lived experiences” (Li et al, 2023, p. 6). In this case, autoethnographic narratives help channelize ECRs’ voices so that other insiders (cultural members, e.g., participants, supervisors, and universities) and outsiders (cultural strangers, e.g., the wider academia) can capture a better understanding of our positioning (Ellis et al, 2011).…”