Integrity Development

Delivered a seminar on "Integrity Development in Higher Education" at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), on 3 Jul 2018. It was attended by a small audience of academics and research students. We discussed some of the contemporary challenges to academic integrity (e.g., the rise of "essay mills," "text spinning," "predatory publishing," etc.). I emphasised on the practical importance of focusing on "integrity development" (in distinction to integrity per se, borrowing from the work of the International Center for Academic Integrity), specifying the multilevel interventions required to enable and sustain such a focus. More particularly, I called for the following interventions:

• Developing the regulatory framework
• Informing and enabling stakeholders
• Strengthening institutional governance mechanisms
• Implementing awareness & development strategies
• Embedding integrity in academic practice
• Supporting research & scholarship on the subject