Reporting system on incidents related to research security, research ethics and scholarly autonomy12.11.2026 {en}

The ASC ethics committee is calling on scholars (including those who are not ASC-members) to report incidents related to research security, research ethics and scholarly autonomy in research on China or Chinese-speaking societies and populations.

Such incidents refer to actions, or threats of action, explicit or implicit, by actors (state or non-state), which aim to undermine researchers‘, collaborators‘ or research subjects‘ perception of security or constrain the ethical and autonomous conduct of research on China, Chinese-speaking societies or Chinese-speaking populations in third countries.

Incidents can occur during all stages of knowledge production—including the definition of topics, access to data, collection of data, and dissemination of results—both in China and Chinese-speaking societies and in the home countries of researchers based elsewhere.

To this end, the ethics committee has established a secure email address at asc.ethics@proton.me. If you have experienced an incident that may fall within the above definition, you may report it either under your real name or anonymously.

The ethics committee plans to periodically disseminate submitted reports in anonymized narrative form to members of the ASC and, potentially, to the broader public. If we do so, we will make every effort to anonymize the reported incidents sufficiently to prevent the re-identification of individuals. If you are particularly concerned about the risk of re-identification based on information contained in your report, please make us aware of these concerns.