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I would like to sincerely apologize for the email I sent about the
University of Western Sydney and Chris Halse.

I would never have sent the email had I known it was going to the
entire auto-e group. I thought I was sending a private email to
Carolyn Ellis.

I think Chris Halse is a fabulous person and, from my meeting with
her, is a fine academic with a creative mind and passionate about the
further potential impact of auto-e and narrative inquiry on a range of
social sciences and other disciplines.

AS for UWS, the sandstone universities do, sadly, enjoy greater
status, so often undeserved. It is the newer universities, without
those conservative reputations to protect, which foster creative
ideas, and make welcome students like myself who don't have honours
degrees but have life experience to offer. This is why I would have
been more than happy to have a degree awarded by UWS.

My stupidity has cost me, and I think Chris too, more than I can
express in this email.

I think all academics committed to this cutting edge methodology need
to support and promote each other. This is why I felt so encouraged
and inspired by the responses I received from the group. I feel I've
now jeopardized that support in general and certainly specifically.

Mia culpa, mia culpa, mia culpa.

Barbara Biggs