The conference will feature oral and poster presentations, keynotes from renowned practitioners and scholars, panel sessions, workshops and student competitions.

CONFERENCE ON ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH INTEGRITY ACARI 2023

1st Asia-Middle East-Africa

Conference on Academic and Research Integrity ACARI 2023

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Middlesex University Dubai will host the 1st Asia – Middle East – Africa Conference on Academic and Research Integrity (ACARI 2023) from 17th to 19th December 2023 at their Knowledge Park Campus in Dubai. The conference endorsed by the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) and International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) is a collaborative effort of colleagues from Middlesex University Dubai, UAE, University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Türkiye, Lahore LEADS University, Pakistan and King Fahd Medical City, Saudi Arabia. With invited colleagues from Chitkara University, India, Kuwait University, Kuwait, Bangamata Sheikh Fojilatunnesa Mujib Science &amp; Technology University, Bangladesh, and University of Calgary in Qatar, ACARI 2023 aims to bring together leaders, educators, practitioners, and researchers from the AMEA region and beyond to discuss, create and promote the culture of integrity across educational campuses in the region.&nbsp;The conference will feature oral and poster presentations, keynotes from renowned practitioners and scholars, panel sessions, workshops and student competitions. Academicians, practitioners, and research scholars wishing to present at the conference are invited to submit a 500-750-word abstract of continuous text describing their current work for consideration by the programme committee.

Call for Papers

<h2>Global Education, Local Values: A Regional Dialogue on Academic and Research Integrity</h2>Asia – Middle East – Africa (AMEA) as a region is an emerging market for global, world-class international education and research. Academic integrity is key to supporting quality education that is inclusive and accessible to all students. Internationally, European Network for Academic Integrity and International Centre for Academic Integrity have been constant beacons of support for academics, practitioners, students and staff alike, conducting awareness campaigns, conferences, providing opportunity for collaboration and research. Similarly, research integrity is the foundation to reliable, valuable results that have the power to make sustainable changes and solve global problems. International bodies such as World Conference on Research Integrity and World Education Research Association have been guiding and supportive of the global communities, paving the way for greater understanding and practice of research with integrity. However, there still remains a need for focused dialogue that recognizes the cultural norms and differences that exist within the Asia - Middle East - and Africa regions. To support the growing community in these regions, ACARI 2023 aims to bring together educators, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to promote the culture of integrity across educational campuses in the AMEA region and beyond. The proposed conference program aims to bring fresh perspectives on very common and familiar topics such predatory journals, data integrity in research, contract cheating, policy reviews and role of institutions and individuals, under the broad theme ‘Global Education, Local Values: A regional dialogue on academic and research integrity’ and following sub themes.&nbsp;<h3>Sub Themes</h3><ul><li>Academic integrity - awareness, knowledge, practice</li><li>Teaching, learning and assessing with integrity</li><li>Contract cheating and impact on quality of education - student, staff and institutional perspectives</li><li>Understanding the industry - essay mills, supply chain and assignment writers</li><li>K-12 (primary, secondary, high school) - starting dialogue early</li><li>Ethical considerations and processes in research</li><li>Research publications, retractions and predatory journals</li></ul>

Conference Theme

<ul><li>Academic research track</li><li>Practitioners track</li><li>K-12 track &nbsp;</li></ul>

Conference Tracks

Delegates wishing to present at the conference are invited to submit a 500-750-word abstract of continuous text describing their current work for consideration by the programme committee. Full paper submission is optional but encouraged.Abstracts are invited for the following presentation types:<ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li style="text-align:justify;">Oral presentation</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Poster presentation</li><li style="text-align:justify;">Workshop</li></ul>Abstracts must be submitted online via easychair:<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acari2023" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acari2023</a> by 30th September 2023&nbsp;for consideration by the programme committee.All authors will be notified on or before 15th October 2023 - after the double-blind peer-review process for academic research track, and expediated review for other tracks - whether their abstract has been accepted.Dr Sreejith Balasubramanian&nbsp;Chair, Local Organizing Committee&nbsp; ACARI, 2023&nbsp;Dr Zeenath Reza Khan&nbsp;Co-Chair, Local Organizing Committee&nbsp; ACARI 2023&nbsp;

Submission Guidelines

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Important Dates

<figure class="table"><table><tbody><tr><td>Early Bird Registration (In-Person) for University Faculty and Staff</td><td>USD 150</td></tr><tr><td>Normal Registration (In-Person) for University Faculty and Staff</td><td>USD 200</td></tr><tr><td>Registration for Virtual Participants</td><td>USD 50</td></tr><tr><td>Registration for School Teachers and Staff&nbsp;</td><td>USD 50</td></tr><tr><td>Registration for All Students</td><td>USD 20</td></tr><tr><td>Late/Onsite Registration (In-Person)</td><td>USD 300</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>US Dollar conversions are presented as an indicative guide only using a rate of 1 US$ = 3.6725 AED. Fees are due in UAE dirhams (AED) and actual exchange rates may differ.<h3>Conference Fees for Local Delegates in UAE</h3><figure class="table"><table class="MsoTableGrid"><tbody><tr style="height:14.15pt;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-irow:0;"><td style="border:1.0pt solid windowtext;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:318.7pt;">Early Bird Registration (In-Person) for University Faculty and Staff</td><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:windowtext;border-left-style:none;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:solid;border-width:1.0pt;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:148.8pt;">AED 150</td></tr><tr style="height:14.15pt;mso-yfti-irow:1;"><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:windowtext;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:318.7pt;">Normal Registration (In-Person) for University Faculty and Staff</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid windowtext;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid windowtext;border-top-style:none;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:148.8pt;">AED 200</td></tr><tr style="height:14.15pt;mso-yfti-irow:2;"><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:windowtext;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:318.7pt;">Registration for Virtual Presenters</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid windowtext;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid windowtext;border-top-style:none;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:148.8pt;">AED 75&nbsp;</td></tr><tr style="height:14.15pt;mso-yfti-irow:3;"><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:windowtext;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:318.7pt;">Registration for School Teachers and Staff</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid windowtext;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid windowtext;border-top-style:none;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:148.8pt;">AED 75</td></tr><tr style="height:14.15pt;mso-yfti-irow:4;"><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:windowtext;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:318.7pt;">Registration for all Students</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid windowtext;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid windowtext;border-top-style:none;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:148.8pt;">AED 50</td></tr><tr style="height:14.15pt;mso-yfti-irow:5;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;"><td style="border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:windowtext;border-left-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-top-style:none;border-width:1.0pt;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:318.7pt;">Late/Onsite Registration (In-Person)</td><td style="border-bottom:1.0pt solid windowtext;border-left-style:none;border-right:1.0pt solid windowtext;border-top-style:none;height:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;width:148.8pt;">AED 300</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>* Group discounts available. Please email&nbsp;<a href="mailto:probity@uowdubai.ac.ae">probity@uowdubai.ac.ae</a> for more details.<div class="raw-html-embed"> <a class="btn btn-default" href="https://mdx.jotform.com/231862559602864" target="_blank">Register Now</a></div>Once you register, you will receive an email with instructions to complete the payment.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The conference has a dedicated day and tracks for K-12 schools in the UAE and from across the world and invites schoolteachers, management and students to participate in this unique setting.<a class="btn btn-danger" href="/acari2023/k-12">FIND OUT MORE</a>

K-12 track Schools

Senior Teaching Fellow, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Thomas Lancaster has researched issues surrounding academic integrity since 2000. He currently teaches at Imperial College London in the UK and regularly speaks at international academic integrity events. He is best known for research into contract cheating, a term he developed with the late Robert Clarke to describe the phenomenon where students utilise third parties to complete their academic work for them. Much of Thomas’ recent research has been conducted alongside undergraduate student partners, looking at the increasing reach of the international contract cheating industry and the operation of the essay mills, providers and individuals who help students to breach academic integrity.&nbsp;<div class="raw-html-embed"><style>
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Dr Thomas Lancaster

Associate Professor Werklund School of Education Educational Leader in Resident Academic Integrity Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning University of Calgary, Canada Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD, is an associate professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada. She has received research awards of excellence for her scholarship on academic integrity from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) (2020) and the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) (2022). Dr. Eaton has written and presented extensively on academic integrity and ethics in higher education and is regularly invited as a media guest to talk about academic misconduct. Dr. Eaton is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Educational Integrity. Her books include Plagiarism in Higher Education: Tackling Tough Topics in Academic Integrity, Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge (Eaton &amp; Christensen Hughes, eds.), and Contract Cheating in Higher Education: Global Perspectives on Theory, Practice, and Policy (Eaton, Curtis, Stoesz, Clare, Rundle, &amp; Seeland, eds.) and Ethics and Integrity in Teacher Education (Eaton &amp; Khan, eds.)

Dr Sarah Elaine Eaton

Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Business &amp; Law,&nbsp;&nbsp;University of Wollongong, Australia Ann is a passionate educator, keen to engage students in the developing lifelong learning skills while connecting their learning experiences to theory and real world contexts and their future workplaces. She continually assesses and seeks to improve her own teaching and learning skills through feedback, reflection, study and research, sharing her discoveries with colleagues, and drawing on her industry experience. She holds degrees in Business and Higher Education, and is a Senior Fellow of the HEA. Ann’s commitment to business education extends beyond her discipline area of organisational behaviour and interpersonal communication to the increasingly prominent area of promoting academic integrity. She actively advocates and shares how assessment design can limit academic misconduct and facilitates the easier detection of contract cheating situations which has led to local, national and international recognition. She is now recognised as an international expert in detecting contract cheating and the use of Turnitin, machine based plagiarism and bibliographic forensics, with work cited by Australian Government authorities as best practice in the area. &nbsp;Ann deliver seminars and workshops on the patterns and clues evident in irregular submissions, and methods of restructuring course content and assessments to minimise the practise and make it easier to detect for the sector at large. In particular, the field of research into the prevalence of machine based plagiarism based on article spinners and paraphrasing tools in student work. She is Chair of UOW's Academic Integrity Advisory Group, on the Executive Advisory Board for the UAE Centre for Academic Integrity, sits on the International Scientific Panel for ENAI, the Executive for the International Association for Language and Social Psychology (IALSP), and the Editorial Board – International Journal for Educational Integrity (Springer Nature). Author of the “Breaches” unit in the Epigeum Academic Integrity program and is an expert panel member for the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA, Australian Government).

Professor Ann Rogerson

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About Host City

Forward-thinking and dynamic, we’re a 5-Star KHDA rated university with a reputation for innovation and excellence in teaching and research. Since we first opened our first UAE campus in Dubai Knowledge Park in 2005, we’ve been providing a quality, affordable UK education to students from around the world. We’re incredibly proud to be Dubai’s largest UK university for total student enrolments, with over 4,500 students from 118+ nationalities currently studying as members of our global family. 

We pride ourselves on providing a student experience with a difference. We opened our second campus in Dubai International Academic City in September 2021, which provides our students with the opportunity to participate in a much wider international student community. Through our commitment to inclusive, industry-led and engaging education, we empower our students to be professional, skilled individuals ready for the modern world. Our students are prepared to become lifelong learners and are ready to contribute to the communities in which they live and work.

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<h3 style="margin-left:20pt;">Conference Chairs of ACARI 2023</h3><ul><li>Dr Sreejith Balasubramanian, Middlesex University Dubai, UAE (Chair)</li><li>Dr&nbsp;Zeenath Reza Khan, University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE (Co-Chair)</li></ul><h3 style="margin-left:20pt;">Deputy Chairs of ACARI 2023</h3><ul><li>Dr Salim Razi,&nbsp;Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey (Deputy Chair)</li><li>Dr Muhammad Shahid Soroya, Director General, Pakistan Institute of Education</li><li>Dr Muaawia Hamza,&nbsp;King Fahad Medical City, Saudi Arabia (Deputy Chair)</li><li>Dr Amit Mittal,&nbsp;Chitkara University, India (Invited Deputy Chair)</li><li>Dr Haneen Shafeeq Al-Ghabra, Kuwait University, Kuwait (Invited Deputy Chair)</li><li>Dr Mahmudul Hasan,&nbsp;Bangamata Sheikh Fojilatunnesa Mujib Science &amp; Technology University, Bangladesh (Invited Deputy Chair)</li><li>Ms Faisa Farah,&nbsp;University of Calgary in Qatar, Qatar (Invited Deputy Chair)</li><li>Dr&nbsp;Janya Chanchaichujit, Prince of Songkla University (Invited Deputed Chair)</li></ul><h3 style="margin-left:20pt;">Local Organizing committee</h3><ul><li>Professor Christopher Hill, British University in Dubai</li><li>Dr Steven Glasgow,&nbsp;Herriot-Watt University Dubai</li><li>Ms Ajrina Hysaj, University of Wollongong in Dubai</li><li>Ms Sivapriya Ramakrishnan,&nbsp;University of Sharjah</li><li>Ms Serene Regi John,&nbsp;Gulf Medical University, Ajman</li><li>Ms Veena Mulani,&nbsp;Al Diyafah High School, Dubai</li><li>Ms Nameeta Bhatia,&nbsp;GEMS Cambridge International School Dubai</li></ul>

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