This article uses critical reflexivity as a method to document and analyse the ethical dilemmas that emerge when researching academic precarity across the permanent/precarious divide. With our project on long-term academic precarity as a case study, and as people who experienced long-term academic precarity, we take as the starting point other researchers’ silences on their positionality and about who does the work in the production of research on academic precarity. Although our small, unfunded project was driven by feminist ethics and transformative feminist praxis, there were some ethical issues we did not foresee, nor could we resolve. We focus on three main ethical dilemmas that arose as moments of discomfort, triggering extensive reflection and discussion: (1) authenticity and subjectivity, (2) disclosure of employment status and (3) complicity in and benefit from the precarisation of academic work, or what we term the ‘precarity dividend’. The article seeks to push the boundaries around how researchers hold themselves to account in the process of knowledge production. We suggest that precarity and especially the precarity dividend must become an inherent ethical consideration in all social scientific research design. It is a call for social researchers to make explicit – in writing, in ethics reviews and in presentations of their work – the labour process and labour conditions of all those involved.

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对自己负责：不稳定红利和研究学术不稳定的道德规范


本文使用批判性反思作为一种方法来记录和分析在研究跨越永久/不稳定鸿沟的学术不稳定时出现的道德困境。以我们关于长期学术不稳定的项目作为案例研究，作为经历过长期学术不稳定的人，我们以其他研究人员对自己的立场以及谁在从事研究工作的沉默为出发点学业不稳定。尽管我们这个小型的、没有资金支持的项目是由女权主义伦理和变革性女权主义实践驱动的，但仍然存在一些我们没有预见到、也无法解决的伦理问题。我们关注在不适时刻出现的三个主要道德困境，引发广泛的反思和讨论：（1）真实性和主观性，（2）就业状况的披露，以及（3）共谋学术工作的不稳定并从中受益，或我们称之为“不稳定红利”。本文试图突破研究人员在知识生产过程中如何承担责任的界限。我们建议，不稳定因素，特别是不稳定红利必须成为所有社会科学研究设计中固有的伦理考虑。它呼吁社会研究人员以书面形式、伦理审查和工作介绍中明确说明所有参与者的劳动过程和劳动条件。