Conference in 2019 – Vilnius, Lithuania

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Conference Proceedings

Conference proceedings can be found here.

Invited Speakers

Keynote speeches

Deborah C. Poff, The role of research integrity and publication ethics in university education for the 21st century | Wednesday, June 19, 10.00-10.45 Abstract_Keynote_1

Diane Pecorari, Do as I say, not as I do? Setting student plagiarism in context | Thursday, June 20, 9.00-9.45 Abstract_Keynote_2

Plenary speeches

Debora Weber-Wulff, Plagiarism in German doctoral dissertations – still a marginal issue 8 years after the Guttenberg case | Wednesday, June 19, 15.55-16.55 Abstract_Plenary_1

Anthony E. Gortzis, Pathos for ethics, leadership and the quest for a sustainable future | Wednesday, June 19, 15.55-16.55 Abstract_Plenary_2

Invited Panel Discussion

Teddi Fishman, Debora Weber-Wulff, Anthony E. Gortzis & Tomáš Foltýnek, Linking academic and professional integrity | Friday, June 21, 9.00-10.30

Keynote speakers

Deborah POFF

Vice-Chair and Chair-Elect of COPE. Previously Executive Vice-President Academic and Provost and Vice-President for Strategic Development at Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences. Prior to that she was President and Vice-Chancellor of Brandon University in Manitoba. From 1994 to 2004, she was Vice-President Academic and Provost at the University of Northern British Columbia. She is the co-founder and for over 30 years was the Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Academic Ethics as well as Editor-in-Chief of Advances is Business Ethics Research (a book series). She is the Editor of Business Ethics in Canada and the Section Editor on Business and Economic Ethics of Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics published by Elsevier in 2012. She recently co-edited Citation Classics from the Journal of Business Ethics: Celebrating the First Thirty Years of Publication with Springer. Her areas of research are applied ethics and leadership studies. Most recently, she is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, to be published by Springer Nature. In 2016, Deborah Poff was awarded the Order of Canada for her work in universities and for increasing educational opportunities for Aboriginal people.

Diane PECORARI

Professor of English and Head of the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. She is an applied linguist whose interest in plagiarism stems from the study the role of writing in academic life. Her publications include Academic writing and plagiarism: A linguistic analysis (Bloomsbury) and Teaching to avoid plagiarism (Open University Press). Diane teaches professional development courses for university teachers who want to work pedagogically to address plagiarism by helping students develop into capable, confident writers.

Panelists

Anthony E. GORTZIS

Anthony E. Gortzis studied Economics and Law in the University of Athens. He completed his postgraduate studies in England, concentrating in Business Administration (MBA), Marketing and Econometrics. He also attended a crash course MBA in Harvard University. Ηe was hired in the Marketing Department of UNILEVER in London, as Marketing Specialist on detergents for Europe and North America. Later he became Marketing Director for Unilever detergents in Greece. In 1988 he was elected President of FEDIMA. Other than that, he was President of the Greek Institute of Marketing. Since 1994, he is a member of the Board of the Greek Advertisers Association, and since March 1996, he holds the presidency. In 1999, he was elected President of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA). In 2003 he was elected as the General Secretary of the Board of Chambers of Commerce for Piraeus. In 2005 he was elected as a member of the board of Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce. Since the beginning of year 2003 he is active (consultant) in the area of Media, Marketing and Public Relation, Public Affairs, CSR, Crisis Management, and since 2005 he is the Chairman of ONE-TEAM SA, THEME LTD and REPUTATION CAPITAL, marketing and communication companies, CSR, Crisis management, PR, PA, Media consulting. In April 2005 he was elected as Vice-President of the Hellenic Management Association and since May 2005 he is acting as the President of the EBEN.GR (Business Ethics Institute). In February 2008 he was elected as a president of the board for SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CITIZENS. In October 2008 he was elected as a member of the Board in the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN). In September 2010 he was elected as a European President of Business Ethics Network and since 2018 he is a president of EBEN.

Teddi FISHMAN

Teddi Fishman spent most of the last decade directing the International Center for Academic Integrity. She earned her PhD from Purdue University and teaches an eclectic range of courses in subjects including ethics in popular culture, and the relationship between science, technology, and society, as well as her main discipline, rhetoric and communication. She is a proponent of participatory, problem-based pedagogies to foster learning, engagement, and academic integrity.

Tomáš FOLTÝNEK

Academic integrity coordinator at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic and President of the Board of the European Network for Academic Intergity. He has been dealing with plagiarism since 2008. He was involved in projects “Impact of policies for plagiarism in higher education across Europe” and “South-East European Project on Policies for Academic Integrity” and has organized conferences and workshops about plagiarism since 2013. He is a member of the Steering group of Pan-European Platform for Ethics, Transparency and Integrity in Education established by the Council of Europe and main coordinator of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships project “European Network for Academic Integrity”.

Debora WEBER-WULFF

Photo by Camilla Rackelmann

Originally from the USA, is a computer scientist and professor for media and computing at the HTW engineering college in Berlin, Germany. She joined the working group on computing and ethics of the German computer science society Gesellschaft für Informatik in 2002, serving as chair for the group from 2005-2011 and vice-chair since then. The group published a book of ethical case studies in computing, Gewissensbisse – Fallbeispiele zu Informatik und Ethik. Biometrie – Datenschutz – geistiges Eigentum, in 2009 and writes a regular column with an ethical case study in computing for the journal Informatik-Spektrum. The columns are documented online at https://gewissensbits.gi.de/.

She has been publishing on the topic of plagiarism since 2002, and she developed an E-Learning unit in 2004 on detecting plagiarism (in German, Fremde Federn Finden, https://plagiat.htw-berlin.de/ff/) for teachers. Her book “False Feathers: An Academic Perspective on Plagiarism” was published by Springer in 2014. Since 2011 she has been active in the German academic community VroniPlag Wiki that documents plagiarism in doctoral dissertations and other academic publications. This work has encouraged a wide discussion of plagiarism in Germany. She has also served as an ethics evaluator for EU Horizon 2020 programmes and for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships.

Conference Program

The book containing the program of the conference can be found here.

DAY 1

Wednesday 19 June

DAY 2

Thursday 20 June

DAY 3

Friday 21 June

Pre-Conference Workshop

The pre-conference workshop for PhD students and early career scholars ‘In Quest of Research Integrity‘ aims to help participants to develop their knowledge on research integrity. In particular, we aim to support participants to develop their PhD theses and papers in the way research integrity would be properly ensured.

Each participant received customized feedback from recognized experts in the field. In addition, two lectures provided, one on effective academic writing strategies for novice authors by Salim Razi and another on how and where to get answers regarding integrity issues by Ansgar Schäfer.

Marco Cosentino, University of Insubria (Italy)

Professor of Medical Pharmacology since 2001. He holds a MD cum laude, University of Pavia (1990) and a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Turin (1996). Present appointments at the University of Insubria include: director of the Center for Research in Medical Pharmacology, director of the School of Specialization in Medical Pharmacology, Coordinator of the PhD program in Experimental and Clinical Medicine and Medical Humanities, Coordinator of the graduate School on Methodology, Ethics and Integrity in Biomedical Research. He served in several Ethics Committees for human and animal experimental research and contributed to writing the Academic Ethics Code of the University of Insubria. Co-responsible for teaching research integrity issues to PhD students and early-stage researchers, as well as for optional seminars for MD students about integrity and conflict of interest in biomedical research. Delegate for the University of Insubria to the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI, https://www.academicintegrity.eu/) and local coordinator of the project VIRT2UE – Virtue based ethics and Integrity of Research: Train-the-Trainer program for Upholding the principles and practices of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.

Shiva Sivasubramaniam, University of Derby (UK)

Head of the Biomedical and Forensic Science. Being one of the founder members of the ENAI, he leads the Ethical Advisory Group. He has over 25 years’ experience in developing innovative and engaging teaching and learning enhancement activities to enthuse students in the fields of pharmacology and biomedical science. As a student-focused educator, his research interests include blended learning activities using students as partners, peer-assisted learning with problem-solving skill development, and laboratory-linked enquiry based learning activities. He is also a fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and Institute of Biomedical Science (FIBMS). Most importantly, his pedagogic research focus has been on academic integrity and plagiarism prevention. He was one of the pioneers in educating students to avoid plagiarism and published several manuscripts on plagiarism prevention and ways to address contract cheating. Also, he has developed and delivered several workshops to address the issue of plagiarism to the academic/student communities in Europe and South-East Asia.

Ansgar Schäfer, University of Konstanz (Germany)

Specialist for integrity and plagiarism prevention in science. He holds an M.A. in political sciences with the minor subjects, such as media science, public law, and Polish language. He has twelve years of experience in research, teaching undergraduate and graduate students as well as further educating scholars, supervising, tutoring, project management, and lately library services. He qualified for “Baden-Württemberg Certificate for Teaching and Learning at University Level” with a focus on student assessment. He is a former member of the university’s commission for academic misconduct. As output manager for the Erasmus+ project ENAI he is responsible for the development of open teaching and learning resources. He develops and teaches workshops for supervisors and university teachers with a focus on writing, supervising and related integrity issues.

Salim Razi, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey)

Associate Professor at the English Language Teaching Department where he trains English as a foreign language teacher and offers graduate courses. Vice Dean of Faculty of Education and Vice Director of Graduate School of Educational Sciences. Board member of the ENAI. His recent research focuses on detecting and preventing plagiarism, testing text-matching software, interpreting text-matching software similarity reports, and developing institutional academic integrity policies. He developed ‘Transparent academic writing rubric’ to enable more reliable assessment in academic writing. He also developed ‘Anonymous multi mediated writing model’ which contributes to the prevention of plagiarism in student assignments by the help of effective peer feedback exchange. His writing model was awarded the Turnitin Global Innovation Award in 2015. He is the convenor of the ‘4th International Conference Plagiarism across Europe and Beyond 2018’ organized in Ephesus and one of the editors of the forthcoming book entitled ‘Towards consistency and transparency in academic integrity’. Many of his publications are freely available on his webpage at www.salimrazi.com.

The pre-conference workshop was hosted by Mykolas Romeris University, Didlaukio str. 55, Vilnius, Lithuania and it was organized on 18th of June 2019.

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