Academic and professional staff involved in teaching, learning, and/or research are responsible for each item below.
Teaching and learning
- Ensuring students are informed, and understand the meaning of academic integrity.
- Regularly review the online academic integrity subject to ensure that your explanations are consistent with the subject.
- Undertake training in academic integrity and research integrity as required.
- Model academic integrity to students. For example, acknowledge the scholarly work of others used in your own teaching and research and demonstrate the integrity of your academic decisions about students.
- Design your assessment tasks to support academic integrity.
Research
- Explain the requirements for responsible conduct of research as stated in the Research Policy when a coursework subject involves research with human subjects , and any specific arrangements to meet these requirements for the research task.
- In core subjects for students who are about to undertake a research component of a coursework course, explain the requirements for responsible conduct of research stated in the Research Policy, and any specific arrangements to meet these requirements for research in the course.
- When supervising a coursework student’s or higher degree by research candidate’s research project, ensure that the student and project comply with the requirements for responsible conduct of research stated in the Research Policy.
The use of professional editors
Use of professional editors is restricted for assessment in coursework courses and subjects in line with the Higher Degree by Research Policy. Students may only use professional editors if:
- permitted by the subject outline
- for theses, approved by the supervisor and consistent with the Institute of Professional Editors standard on thesis editing (stylistic copy-editing only).
