Research is at the core of universities’ raison d’être and is an integral aspect of academic work, yet the ever-changing parameters around research are problematic. While studies have examined changes brought about through research assessment exercises and issues of academic identity in the twenty-first century, fewer studies have used arts-related research methods to engage with academics’ experiences of these changes. This article draws upon visual and textual material generated by academics at an Australian university to investigate how academic researchers engage with research in the current milieu. This research offers an aesthetic mode of interruption and resistance to consider the emotional labour, work and energy involved in doing research that cannot be captured through neoliberal research measurement discourses. It deploys a post-Foucauldian governmentality theoretical framework to illustrate the ways in which academics [re]position multiple selves constantly to build more robust and critical responses to higher education reform.

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研究是……使学术研究的情感维度可见

研究是大学存在的核心，是学术工作的一个组成部分，但围绕研究不断变化的参数是有问题的。虽然有研究考察了 21 世纪通过研究评估练习和学术身份问题带来的变化，但很少有研究使用与艺术相关的研究方法来了解学者对这些变化的体验。本文利用澳大利亚大学学者生成的视觉和文本材料来调查学术研究人员如何在当前环境中参与研究。这项研究提供了一种中断和抵制的美学模式，以考虑进行研究所涉及的情感劳动、工作和能量，而这些情绪劳动、工作和精力无法通过新自由主义研究测量话语来捕捉。