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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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The Speakers

Dr Thomas Lancaster

Dr Thomas Lancaster

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.

Dr Sarah Elaine Eaton

Dr Sarah Elaine Eaton

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 & Christensen Hughes, eds.), and Contract Cheating in Higher Education: Global Perspectives on Theory, Practice, and Policy (Eaton, Curtis, Stoesz, Clare, Rundle, & Seeland, eds.) and Ethics and Integrity in Teacher Education (Eaton & Khan, eds.)

Professor Ann Rogerson

Professor Ann Rogerson

Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Business & Law
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.  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).

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Conference Committee

Conference Chairs of ACARI 2023

  • Dr Sreejith Balasubramanian, Middlesex University Dubai, UAE (Chair)
  • Dr Zeenath Reza Khan, University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE (Co-Chair)

Deputy Chairs of ACARI 2023

  • Dr Salim Razi, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey (Deputy Chair)
  • Dr Muhammad Shahid Soroya, Former Vice Chancellor at Lahore Leads University, Pakistan (Deputy Chair)
  • Dr Muaawia Hamza, King Fahad Medical City, Saudi Arabia (Deputy Chair)
  • Dr Amit Mittal, Chitkara University, India (Invited Deputy Chair)
  • Dr Haneen Shafeeq Al-Ghabra, Kuwait University, Kuwait (Invited Deputy Chair)
  • Dr Mahmudul Hasan, Bangamata Sheikh Fojilatunnesa Mujib Science & Technology University, Bangladesh (Invited Deputy Chair)
  • Ms Faisa Farah, University of Calgary in Qatar, Qatar (Invited Deputy Chair)
  • Dr Janya Chanchaichujit, Prince of Songkla University (Invited Deputed Chair)

Local Organizing committee

  • Professor Christopher Hill, British University in Dubai
  • Dr Steven Glasgow, Herriot-Watt University Dubai
  • Ms Ajrina Hysaj, University of Wollongong in Dubai
  • Ms Sivapriya Ramakrishnan, University of Sharjah
  • Ms Serene Regi John, Gulf Medical University, Ajman
  • Ms Veena Mulani, Al Diyafah High School, Dubai
  • Ms Nameeta Bhatia, GEMS Cambridge International School Dubai

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