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The intention is to take an approach to aspects of my autobiography in a multi-layered way. Forthis reason, it might have been appropriate to constitute this as a 'single case' study method (seeYin, 1994). However, given the detail necessary to achieve meaningfulness, it has been decidedto extract five illustrative moments from the autobiography around which to structure thereflexive process and thus to adapt extensively case study methods.Whilst auto/biographic research methodology is becoming increasingly used in researchprojects, knowledge of it is confined to a relatively small, though growing academic community(See e.g. the European Network for Life History Research), and so it seems important to outlineits origins and provenance. Arguably its origins are within the philosophical tradition ofphenomenology the architect of which would appear to be Edmund Husserl (1970). Whatfollows is an analysis of phenomenological methods in research which builds on some of therelevant insights from phenomenology on the 'self' set out in chapter 2.145Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)