Monday, July 7, 2025

8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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Facilitators Assoc Prof Guy Curtis, University Of Western Australia Aims This workshop aims to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to plan, conduct, and publish research into issues of academic integrity and academic misconduct (e.g., plagiarism and cheating). Focus This workshop focuses on the practicalities of researching academic integrity issues by providing relevant knowledge (e.g., ethical issues, research design, opportunities for publication). Participants will also be able to practically plan and design their first (or next) academic integrity research project. Overview • Intended audience: People who are interested in conducting research into academic integrity specifically and scholarship of learning and teaching topics more generally. • Context and if applicable reference to literature informing the workshop: Academic integrity and academic misconduct are “hot topics” in higher education and scholarship of learning and teaching. According to SciVal, cheating and plagiarism are among the top 5% of all research topics listed in Scopus by current “prominence”. Relevant references include the >100 chapters of the recent Second Handbook of Academic Integrity (Eaton [Ed.], 2024). Workshop Plan: The workshop will cover the topics outlined below: The facilitator will present briefly on each topic with discussion and activities related to each topic. Ethical considerations, and how to manage them appropriately, will be discussed such as designing research into the sensitive topic of academic misconduct, managing unequal relationships between teaching staff as researchers and students as research participants, etc. Relevant literature: key sources on academic integrity and the current state of the literature will be discussed. Options for funding academic integrity research will be outlined including relevant grants, and options for publication will be discussed including specialist journals on this topic, higher education journals, disciplinary-specific journals, books, and relevant conferences. Examples of research will be used to illustrate research designs and methodologies, pointing back to ethical considerations in these studies. Participants will brainstorm research ideas and applications of methodologies with which they are familiar to academic integrity research questions. In the final section of the workshop participants will begin to develop their plan for an academic-integrity-related research project, with the opportunity for feedback from the facilitator and other attendees.