2025 Australasian Academic Integrity Network Forum
2025 Australasian Academic Integrity Network Forum
Friday, 5 September, 2025
This free online event provided a forum for sharing knowledge, best practice and key questions in the challenging and fast-paced field of academic integrity. Over 1300 people registered for it.
The 2025 Forum consisted of keynote speakers, panels, roundtable discussions, and digital posters.
All keynote speakers, panels and roundtable discussions at the 2025 Forum were recorded and these recordings have been made available to those who had registered.
The 2025 Forum was proudly hosted by Deakin University.
Quick links
- A summary of the Forum Program is available – see “Program“
Key themes
The key themes for the 2025 Forum have shaped the panel discussion, roundtable sessions, and digital posters.
1. Evolving definitions of academic integrity in a digital age
- How GenAI, online learning and digital collaboration tools are reshaping what integrity means to students and staff
- Challenges: staff professional judgements in the detection of contract cheating, GenAI misuse, and plagiarism; grey areas in what constitutes ethical academic behaviour
2. Building a culture of integrity: policy, practice and pedagogy
- Institutional strategies and leadership to embed integrity into curriculum design, assessment, student support
- Cultivating students’ personal and professional integrity and values
- Best practices for staff training, support and wellbeing, policy development, and inclusive approaches to uphold academic standards
- Internal and external reporting of institutional academic integrity data
3. Assessment design for integrity and authentic learning
- Aligning assessment types and formats to reduce opportunities for misconduct
- Promoting integrity in technology-enhanced learning and assessment
- Promoting integrity through sustainable authentic, scaffolded, and program-level assessment
4. Student-centred integrity: equity, ethics and engagement
- The role of student wellbeing, belonging and academic support in fostering integrity
- Navigating cultural differences and expectations around academic integrity
- Indigenous knowledge systems and academic integrity
- Inclusive approaches to integrity education
- Engaging students as partners in promoting and upholding academic standards and integrity
5. Fair and educative responses to academic misconduct
- Evidence to support the reporting and investigation of allegations – reactive and proactive approaches
- Ensuring procedural fairness through transparent, consistent, and educative/restorative approaches
- Legal, ethical, and practical considerations for managing allegations, investigations and outcomes.
2025 Key speaker
Dr Jasmine Thomas
Dr Jasmine Thomas
Dr Jasmine Thomas is Associate Director of ICT Governance and Partnerships at the University of Southern Queensland. With a background in law, learning & teaching, and digital transformation, she brings over a decade of leadership experience across governance, project management, and educational innovation. Jasmine has led major institutional initiatives including academic integrity reform, enterprise system consolidation and digital media adoption. She has also lectured in technology law, privacy law and legal research, and is a frequent invited speaker on academic integrity and technology in higher education. Her work blends strategic insight with a deep commitment to integrity, innovation, and student success.
Integrity and the Purpose of the University: A Philosophical Reflection
This presentation invites staff and students to reflect on the deeper purpose of higher education and the role of integrity in shaping its culture. Moving beyond compliance frameworks, it explores integrity as a philosophical concept, grounded in consistency and alignment between values and actions. Drawing on the historical foundations of the university as a community of inquiry, the session positions integrity as a shared responsibility that underpins trust, leadership, and meaningful learning. Participants will be able to consider how integrity can be embodied across academic, professional, and governance roles and how this in turn cultivates environments where students may internalise and prioritise integrity in their own journeys. This session provides an opportunity to examine the ethical foundations of the university and to consider how everyday decisions contribute to its academic mission.
Forum program
A summary of the program for the Forum is available below.
Note: The full program containing abstracts, speaker profiles and Zoom links to all sessions was sent to those who had registered.
Members of the 2025 Forum Organising Group
Host organisation chairs
Lisa Hanna and Bernie Marshall, Deakin University
Other Forum Organising Group members:
Abdullatif Lacina Diaby, University of South Australia
Amanda Janssen, University of South Australia
Anastasia Yeark, Kaplan Business School
Ashokkumar Manoharan, Flinders University
Christine Slade, University of Queensland
Courtney Harmer, Charles Sturt University
David Morgan, Polytechnic Institute Australia
Dianne Stratton-Maher, University of Southern Queensland
Elyse Coffey, Deakin University
Jaklin Eliott, University of Adelaide
Jennifer Weller, Australian Institute of Business
Joshua Johnson, Victoria University
Kat Jellema, Murdoch University
Katherine Edmond, The University of Adelaide
Kris Nicholls, Melbourne Institute of Technology
Laurine Hurley, Australian Catholic University
Mark Bassett, Charles Sturt University
Mark Hinchey, University of New South Wales College
Mathew Hillier, University of Canberra
Michelle Picard, Flinders University
Mingwei Sun, Australian Instute of Business
Miriam Sullivan, Edith Cowan University
Neil Ulrich, Massey University
Nicole Reinke, University of the Sunshine Coast
Niraj Pandya, Kaplan Business School
Olivia Inwood, Western Sydney University
Pauline Murray-Parahi, Charles Darwin University
Robin Bowley, University of Technology Sydney
Rosemary Fisher, Swinburne University of Technology
Shaeley Henderson, University of Melbourne
2025 Forum host
The 2025 AAIN Academic Integrity Forum was hosted by Deakin University.
The AAIN thanks the university for their significant contribution to the event.
