Distributed Leadership that Supports Academic Integrity in Higher Education: Perspectives from Diverse Leaders

Abstract

Although the issue of leadership in academic integrity has been recently addressed in a section of the Second Handbook of Academic Integrity and was previously touched on in the seminal work on the culture of academic integrity (e.g. Bretag, 2019, 2020; Bretag et al., 2011), how distributed academic integrity leadership can best be enacted is relatively underexplored in the Australasian university context. In particular, the leadership of academic and professional staff who hold positions related to academic integrity, but do not hold other senior leadership positions and effectively need to ‘manage up’ requires further investigation along with informal communities of practice.

This joint project between CAULLT and the Australasian Academic Integrity network (AAIN) aims to capture the voices of these diverse academic integrity leaders and identify their challenges in leading academic integrity as well as the strategies that have influenced whole/eco-systems at their institutions and beyond. This project will then feed into recommendations for formal university leadership on how to leverage their expertise.

Project team

  • Michelle Picard (Flinders University)
  • Ashokkumar Manoharan (Flinders University)
  • Mathew Hillier
  • Steven Warburton (University of Newcastle)
  • Bernie Marshall (Deakin University)
  • Nicole Reinke (University of the Sunshine Coast)
  • Holly Rendell-Moon (Charles Sturt University)
  • Alexandra Whittaker (University of Adelaide)
  • Joan Lynch (Western Sydney University)
  • Dianne Stratton-Maher (University of Southern Queensland)
  • Nina Fotinatos (Federation University)
  • Jenny Game (Chisholm Institute)

Outputs

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