Dear Readers,
We are approaching you with the ENAI newsletter for June 2022. In this issue, we glimpse back to the European Conference on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism 2022, bring you news from the FAITH project and Bridge project, bring you a handful of invitations and one academic integrity job offer.
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European Conference on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism 2022
ECAIP2022 took place in Porto and online from 4th to 6th May.
On behalf of the organisation team, we would like to thank all conference participants, speakers, keynote speakers, panellists, session chairs and reviewers. It was your contributions which made the event so informative, interesting and amazing!
All recordings from the sessions are available in Sched. You can also find there also the presentations and other materials from each session. Just go to the session you are interested in and see the details. All abstracts are available in the online book of abstracts.
The organisation team would like to thank the conference sponsors - the gold sponsor Turnitin, the silver sponsor Unilabs, and the bronze sponsors Complilatio and Takeda.
The conference was also co-funded by the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, University of Porto / Santander Universidades, and the Facing Academic Integrity Threats Erasmus+ project.
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ENAI 2022 Awards Winners
To acknowledge the exceptional contributions and courage of those who work in the field of academic integrity, ENAI presented five awards to seven awardees in 2022. Recipients of ENAI Awards have demonstrated continuous commitment to the promotion of academic integrity and bringing about positive culture change locally, nationally and/or globally.
The awards were announced on Wednesday 4th May 2022 at ECAIP2022. These selections were made by a panel of academic integrity experts after being nominated by their colleagues for outstanding contributions and recognized for their inspiration to our community at large.
- The award for outstanding activism goes to Lorna Waddington, for her work both at Leeds University, and in the wider academic integrity community including both inside academia and externally with the United Kingdom government.
- The award for exemplary research goes to Sarah Elaine Eaton, for conducting academic integrity research at the University of Calgary where she serves as an Educational Leader in Residence for Academic Integrity.
- ENAI recognizes three outstanding students for their contributions and leadership in the field of academic integrity: Megan O’Connor of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), César González-Lozano of the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), and Pegi Pavletić of the European Students’ Union (ESU).
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- The award for Outstanding Member of ENAI goes to Dita Henek Dlabolová, for her unwavering and enthusiastic support of the organization’s goals and overall mission.
- And our most prestigious award, the Tracey Bretag Award Memorial Award goes to our colleagues at the Ukrainian National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, who have worked tirelessly to fight corruption and cheating and to promote and maintain academic standards and achievements even in the face of adversity. We celebrate their work as a credit to the academic integrity community.
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ENAI Annual Conference 2023: European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia
The next ENAI annual conference will take place in Derby, UK and it will have an updated name: European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia.
The conference will be held in June 2023 and will be jointly organised by the University of Derby and ENAI. You can look forward to the classical format - three days event with presentations and workshops, wrapped in great keynote speeches.
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Preventing Plagiarism Starts with People
By Turnitin, ECAIP2022 Gold Sponsor
In its first public event since joining Turnitin, Ouriginal shared the stage at the European Conference on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism in a panel entitled “New challenges in plagiarism detection”.
The common thread throughout the conversation was that the key to preventing plagiarism and encouraging academic integrity is through positive student-teacher relationships. This comes as no surprise as teaching and learning are very human and relational elements.
However, after pandemic lockdowns disconnected students and teachers. How can educators recover from more than two years of lost time to rebuild these relationships? Here are some tips from the panel:
Prioritise transparency with students.
- Show students exactly what goes on in the evaluation process to assist with transparency and building trust.
Educators can prioritise transparency with students by providing rubrics and checklists as well as a walkthrough of the assistive technologies used during the evaluation process—such as text similarity checkers, grammar tools, productivity tools, and content organizers. This provides context and a clear roadmap to students on how to succeed.
- Detail and define academic integrity and academic misconduct.
Many cases of academic misconduct are unintentional, resulting from a misunderstanding. When institutions detail and define expectations from the beginning, unintentional misconduct is easier to address.
- Outline how misconduct will be addressed.
The solution should focus on knowledge and skills building, rather than reprimanding. Sharing this information may help reduce anxiety about “getting it wrong” and encourage students to be more comfortable in asking questions.
How can education technology companies support educators in rebuilding these relationships?
Prioritise transparency with customers and the industry.
- Companies should involve accessibility and inclusion in product design, not as an afterthought.
This means accounting for audio, visual, and kinetic learners as well as, maybe most importantly, making technology available in and tailored to students’ native languages and cultural backgrounds. Edtech companies must truly listen to customer needs, implement that feedback and, whenever possible, involve users in product development.
- Provide quality, personalised training on edtech tools to both educators and students.
Edtech is an assistive tool that does not, and should not replace human decision making or pedagogy. With proper onboarding and strong company-client relationships, educators and students can unburden some of the administrative tasks involved with teaching and learning—such as manually checking each sentence of a paper for text similarities with existing content—to free up more time for real student-teacher conversations.
- Partner with edtech to combat essay mills.
The cheating landscape is far more predatory and advanced than ever before. It is unsustainable to combat essay mills in silos. Edtech providers and institutions need to join forces and share insights and resources to support educators with the absolute best, most innovative tools that help uphold academic integrity.
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ENAI Monthly Webinars
We are happy to introduce our new activity which will start the next semester, in September 2022, the ENAI monthly webinars. The webinars are going to replace the European Academic Integrity Week, which was a series of lunch-time webinars during the week of the Global Ethics Day and International Day of Action against Contract Cheating.
Because... why squeeze all interesting events just into one week, when we can spread them all over the year?
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Timing: second Friday of the month, 1 PM CEST/CET
Topics: various on academic integrity
Lecturers: ENAI related experts
Audience: everyone interested in the topics
Price: free
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And here is the programme for the first round (up to the end of 2022):
- 9th September, 13:00 CEST: Artificial intelligence and academic integrity (Thomas Lancaster)
- 14th October, 13:00 CEST: Improving your skills as a thesis supervisor (Veronika Krásničan & Dita Henek Dlabolová, Bridge project)
- 11th November, 13:00 CET: Celebrating the European Year of Youth through Academic integrity. How students help in establishing institutional integrity and values (Pegi Pavletić, ENAI Students' WG)
- 9th December, 13:00 CET: Support for victims of academic misconduct: an interactive portal and support network (Rita Santos, FAITH project)
All details on the webinars will be available here.
Is there a topic you would love to hear about? Would you like to run an ENAI webinar? Please, let us know at info@academicintegrity.eu.
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ENAI's New Project Manager & Senior Researcher
Meet our new project manager & senior researcher Dr Rita Santos. Here is her video introduction.
Rita is from Portugal, Lisbon. Her first experience of academic integrity was in 2019 when she was part of the H2020 INTEGRITY project. From this moment, she became engaged with the aspects related to teaching academic integrity and responsible conduct in research to European high school, bachelor and PhD students. She collaborated and worked actively in developing and testing teaching modules about academic integrity and responsible conduct in research targeting high school students. She was also involved in running seminars about Research Ethics/Research Integrity promoted at her previous Institution. She is a certified Virt2UE Trainer (and trained further researchers under this program.
She is now the coordinator of Project Result 3 ( A support for victims of academic misconduct: an interactive portal and support network will be created to help victims of unethical practice) of the Erasmus+ FAITH (Facing Academic Integrity Threats) project (2022-2025).
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Coordinator of Project Result 3 from the FAITH project;
- Maintenance and development of the Victims Support Portal;
- Coordinator of the ENAI's Support for the Victims of Academic Misconduct Working Group;
- The contact point on behalf of ENAI on research projects;
- Research Projects' fundraising;
- Support ENAI members.
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Feel free to contact Rita at rita.santos@academicintegrity.eu if you would like to:
- Invite ENAI to become a partner in a research project grant proposal;
- Discuss ENAI's involvement in research projects;
- Become involved in the Victims Support Portal as a mentor;
- Obtain support on a case of misconduct or questionable practice in research or education;
- Become involved as a member of the ENAI's Support for the Victims of Academic Misconduct Working Group;
- Answer any questions about ENAI (and please, don't be afraid to ask!)
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Victims Support Portal
An interactive online platform to support Victims of Misconduct and Questionable Practices in Research and Education
By Rita Santos
A new interactive online Portal has recently been launched to support victims and other people who have suffered from misconduct and questionable practices of other people in research and education (e.g. work plagiarised, not recognised as an author in a publication, whistleblower, victim of abuse, etc.).
The Portal aims to raise awareness and provide advice to anyone who seeks help and wishes to discuss their experiences of individual and/or institutional malpractices or unethical behaviour. Those using the Portal can discuss their problems in confidence and receive support from a dedicated mentor, with expertise in a relevant aspect of academic and research integrity (e.g. plagiarism, publication ethics, mentorship, data manipulation, etc.). Mentors are academics and experts from ENAI and from the Erasmus+ FAITH (Facing Academic Integrity Threats) project, who will dedicate their time to supporting and advising people on their cases.
People who have experienced misconduct and questionable practices in research and education will be offered guidance on the actions to take according to the nature of their case. Moreover, with permission from the victim, after appropriate anonymisation of any personal information, details of cases can be shared on the Portal, allowing others to comment and provide guidance. People facing similar threats may refer to previous cases for guidance, building a powerful community of support against misconduct and questionable practices in research and education in academia.
The Victims Support Portal has no geographical barriers. Anyone can post their query in any language. In fact, the main aim of this Portal is to expand and support people from all over the world.
Speak up against misconduct and questionable practices in research and education! Spread the word about this Portal! And if you have appropriate expertise, please join us in our supporting network. Feel free to email us at: victims@academicintegrity.eu if you want to find out more. If you seek help with a case of misconduct or questionable practice in research and education, then please post the details of your case via the Portal.
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Bridge Project Newsletter
We have already told you about the Erasmus+ project Bridging Integrity in Higher Education, Business and Society involving ENAI members (Uppsala University and Mendel University in Brno) and partners from Lithuania, North Macedonia, and Ukraine.
The Bridge project is happy to introduce its brand new newsletter. The plan is to send this project newsletter every few months, in each newsletter, there will be information about the project outputs, project-related events and news from related areas.
Read the first issue of the newsletter here.
Subscribe to the newsletter, and follow the Bridge project on Twitter and Facebook to ensure you do not miss any news!
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Offer of an Academic Integrity Position at the Medical University of Vienna
The Medical University of Vienna is looking for someone to appoint an academic integrity position, the offer is open until June 22, 2022.
The current team is expanding to reinforce the focus on awareness building in the culture of academic integrity.
Responsibilities:
- Plagiarism checks of all theses at the Medical University of Vienna;
- Creation of a standardised plagiarism check report;
- Advice and information for students and supervisors;
- Support for plagiarism checking of scientific publications;
- Supporting the team management in further development of the services.
The candidate must have experience with scientific publishing. The skills required are precision and an excellent command of spoken and written German and English. Find further details & qualifications here. |
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The Second National Symposium on Research Integrity
The second National Symposium on Research Integrity with the topic What Research Performing Organizations can do to Promote Research Integrity will take place on July 5, 2022.
It will be jointly organised by the project team of the NSRI and Netherlands Research Integrity Network ( NRIN). This symposium is open to all researchers with an interest in research integrity, as well as relevant stakeholders within the research system. This will be a hybrid event, taking place at Pakhuis de Zwijger (Amsterdam) with live streaming. If Covid-19 circumstances demand, the symposium will be held online only as a live streamed event. The event will be held in English and presentations will be recorded, with videos being made available through NSRI and NRIN’s YouTube Channels after the event.
Find out more and register here.
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QQI 10-year Anniversary Conference 'Strategic Partnerships': Poster Call
On Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th October 2022, QQI will host its 10- year anniversary conference, ‘Strategic Partnerships’. QQI and its partners will take the opportunity to reflect on successful collaborations and look to the future of strategic partnerships across the tertiary education landscape.
The conference will feature a poster session where delegates can showcase examples of strategies, policy, institutional practice or projects linked to the themes below. The conference organisers welcome submissions from the Community and Voluntary Education, English Language Education, Further Education and Training, and Higher Education sectors and agencies working with these sectors.
POSTERS
Submissions from delegates for posters are invited in the areas below. Collaborative projects involving internal partnerships and interinstitutional/organisational partnerships are particularly welcomed.
- Enterprise and Education in partnership: Connecting programmes and employability
- Innovative approaches to the assessment of competence and skills in the context of work/practice placements
- Digital transformations impacting on programme delivery and student experience
- Assessing intended programme learning outcomes and institutional graduate attributes
- Academic integrity is everyone’s responsibility (from the agency to the student and in between): taking steps to develop a sustainable culture of academic integrity, supporting learners and staff
- Making cross-sectoral initiatives work
- Working with the internal quality assurance system to support innovative teaching and learning initiatives
- Diversifying programme delivery to increase accessibility for all learners
- Embedding a culture of student-staff partnership: Reflections on successful student-staff collaborations
- Better together: Developing collaborative regional initiatives in response to amalgamation
- Learnings and the unintended benefits of preparing for quality reviews
- Promoting progress: enhancing the profile of Irish research on the international stage
- Successful collaboration as a cornerstone of a meaningful apprenticeship experience
- Opportunities from crisis: action resulting from learnings following the pandemic and how these can enhance future programme delivery/educational provision
- Enhancing Ireland’s reputation as a destination for international learners
LIGHTNING TALKS
Delegates submitting posters should indicate if they hope to deliver a lightning talk on their poster topic. The talk would be for a duration of 5 minutes maximum and would highlight the key points of their poster. The conference rate will be waived for delegates selected to deliver lightning talks to accompany their posters.
GUIDANCE IN PREPARING A POSTER PROPOSAL
Posters should be a visual representation of a topic and can include tables, charts, graphs, text and images. Those selected will be on display during the conference, and there will be a specified timeframe within the conference programme to allow delegates to view the posters. A presenter will also be required to engage with delegates to discuss their poster.
The following should be included in the submission:
- Contact Details: Main Author
- Title: Should be no more than 80 characters. If the proposal is accepted, this title will appear in the conference programme
- Keywords: Supply up to 5 keywords which will help delegates understand the poster content if accepted. Should be no more than 60 characters including spaces
- Abstract: Maximum 1400 characters including spaces. This should give a succinct description of the proposal, outlining the aims and objectives of the contribution.
- Key Messages: Maximum of 350 characters including spaces. Provide three key messages that delegates could potentially take from the poster.
- References: any references cited in the poster
SUBMITTING A POSTER PROPOSAL
All proposals must be submitted via this link no later than Friday 22 July 2022. There is no limit to the number of poster proposals which you can submit but each poster proposal must be made separately and clearly linked to the themes identified.
REVIEW OF POSTER PROPOSALS
The submissions will be reviewed against the following criteria:
- Is the submission relevant to the aims of the conference?
- Is the submission clearly linked to the themes identified including partnership?
- Is the submission of potential interest to delegates?
- Do the key words reflect the submission?
Proposals will be reviewed and chosen participants contacted via email by Friday 12th August 2022. The main author of accepted proposals must register to attend the conference, for which the delegate attendance rate is €100.
Send your queries and questions to: conference@qqi.ie and find more details on the QQI website.
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Canadian Symposium on Academic Integrity (CSAI): Save the Date - June 1-2, 2023
The Canadian Symposium on Academic Integrity (CSAI) with the topic Looking to the Future of Academic Integrity will take place from 1st to 2nd June 2023. The CSAI will be presented by The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba. CSAI provides a national forum to discuss academic integrity in higher education.
Find more information at the website of the University of Manitoba.
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We will approach you with the regular newsletter in two months. If you want to share with us, and with other recipients, any interesting news from your country or some curiosities from the area of academic integrity, we will welcome your contributions. Please send them to info@academicintegrity.eu.
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Sincerely yours
European Network for Academic Integrity team
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