
2025 Australasian Academic Integrity Network Forum
2025 Australasian Academic Integrity Network Forum
Friday, 5 September, 2025
This free online event provides a forum for sharing knowledge, best practice and key questions in the challenging and fast-paced field of academic integrity.
The 2025 Forum will consist of keynote speakers, panels, roundtable discussions, digital posters, and case studies/workshops on good practice.
All keynote speakers, panels and roundtable discussions at the 2025 Forum will be recorded and these recordings will be made available to those who have registered.
The 2025 Forum is proudly hosted by Deakin University.
Quick links
- If you would like to present at the forum – Jump to “Expression of interest“.
- If you would like to attend the forum in the audience – Jump to “Registration“.
Key themes
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.
Expression of interest
We invite expressions of interest to present a roundtable discussion or digital poster on any of the key themes. These can relate to practices, policies, systems and pedagogies that support academic integrity across the sector or respond to threats to integrity.
Roundtable discussions
These 40-minute sessions involve a presentation of about 15 minutes followed by discussion of the issues raised in the presentation. Each session will have a facilitator to support the presenter and manage questions and discussions.
Digital posters
These are short videos (maximum 5 minutes, with no more than 4 slides) presenting aspects of good practice. There will be a facility for viewers to leave comments or questions before and during the Forum. Participants will be able to meet with poster presenters during the lunch break.
In considering how to contribute to a theme, here are some broad questions to guide your thinking:
- What innovations and good practice do you want to share with others? What issues do you think would benefit from sector-wide discussion?
- How do we build cultures of integrity and engage institutional communities in this work?
- How can governance, systems, policies and processes support our staff to manage and safeguard integrity?
- How do we make difficult decisions, ensure procedural fairness, prevent and deter cheating?
- How do we detect and respond to academic misconduct, and stay abreast of new threats and challenges in a rapidly shifting technological landscape?
- What examples can you share of effective assessment design for academic integrity or partnerships with students in academic integrity?
Remember: regardless of which theme you choose to submit under, your submission should focus on academic integrity, rather than just broader issues and contexts. That is, your abstract must make clear the academic integrity implications of your work.
The deadline for Expressions of Interest is Friday 18 July, 2025.
Register for the Forum – Coming Soon!
Registration will be open to academic and professional staff working in the higher education sector in Australia and New Zealand.
You must use your institutional email address to register; requests that come from personal email addresses will not be accepted.
Registration will open closer to the date when the program has been finalised.
In the meantime you can register your interest to attend the forum in the online audience.
Use the link below to leave us your email address and we will let you know when registration opens.
2025 Forum host
The AAIN thanks the university for their significant contribution to the event.
