Academic Integrity: Broadening Practices, Technologies, and the Role of Students: Proceedings from the European Conference on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism 2021

This book aims to broaden the horizons of academic integrity by discussing novel practices and technologies, and the importance of student involvement in building a culture of academic integrity. Examples are the outreach efforts towards a range of non-educational organisations, the exploration and comparison of ethical policies and actions in different institutions, and the improvement of student responses in research on sensitive topics.

It explores a range of scenarios and strategies adopted in different parts of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, and addresses new technological advances for investigating types of academic misconduct that are difficult to find, including translation plagiarism, contract cheating, the usage of the proctoring systems, and the innovative use of data mining to detect cheating on on-line quizzes.

The work shows how working with students is an essential part of the fight against academic misconduct. The student voice can be a powerful source of motivation for students, but educators also need to understand their perspectives, especially regarding such an important topic as academic integrity.

Sonja Bjelobaba is researcher at the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics as well as an associate professor in Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian at the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala university. She is a vice-president of the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) and co-ordinator of the Erasmus+ strategic partnership project Bridging Integrity in Higher Education, Business and Society (BRIDGE, 2020-2023). Previously, she has worked as international expert and course developer for the Council of Europe projects "Strengthening Integrity and Combating Corruption in Higher Education" in Montenegro and Serbia. She defended her thesis at the University of Gothenburg  where she, as an educational developer, taught research integrity, postgraduate supervision courses and other courses for faculty relating to teaching and learning in higher education. Sonja Bjelobaba’s research concentrates on academic integrity in the Balkans and in Sweden.

Tomáš Foltýnek is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czechia. He is representing Czechia in the Council of Europe’s Pan-European Platform for Ethics, Transparency, and Integrity in Education (ETINED). He has been dealing with plagiarism since 2008. He was involved in the design of an internal system for plagiarism detection for Mendel University in Brno and in several national and international projects on plagiarism and academic integrity. Since 2013 he has been organizing conferences on this topic. He is President of the Board of the European Network for Academic Integrity.

Irene Glendinning is associate professor based in the Office of Teaching and Learning at Coventry University, serving as the institutional lead on academic integrity. She has been a teacher, lecturer, manager and researcher, working in secondary, adult, further and higher education, covering a period of over 40 years. Since 2010 she has mainly focused on research into strategies for academic integrity, particularly concerning the design of workable institutional policies that deter misconduct in education and research and encourage a culture of scholarly learning. She continues to be engaged in research and international working groups focusing on improving academic integrity and fighting corruption. As a member of QAA’s Academic Integrity Advisory Group, she regularly contributes to national guidance in the UK and related events on this subject. She is a member of the editorial boards for the International Journal for Academic Integrity and Journal of Academic Ethics.

Veronika Krásničan (earlier Králíková) is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Law and Social sciences at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, dealing with business ethics. She is a leading expert on contract cheating in the Czech Republic. In 2017, she defended her master thesis on "Analysis of the contract cheating market in Czechia," for which she received a Dean's award. She was one of the principal investigators in the Global Essay Mills Survey, International Contract Cheating Project and shared her experience at the meeting of Council of Europe's Pan-European platform for Ethics, Transparency, and Integrity in Education (ETINED).

Dita Henek Dlabolová is an executive manager of the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI). She is an experienced teacher and trainer in the field of academic integrity with the main focus on plagiarism prevention and detection. She has been involved in several international academic integrity projects. Her background is in computer science, before starting her job with ENAI she worked at Mendel University in Brno (Czechia) as an assistant professor teaching computer science and academic writing.