On 23 September at an awards ceremony in London Jude Carroll was presented with a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy. Key to her nomination was her international work in raising awareness of plagiarism and developing teaching strategies to promote authentic work from students. In accepting the award, she paid tribute to all those who have assisted with this task, “It’s a big issue and needs many heads and hands”.

Jude’s tireless enthusiasm over the past 10 years which has extended from general awareness workshops all over the globe to developing institutional and individual responses to the issue formed the basis of the holistic approach to plagiarism adopted by the JISC-funded Plagiarism Advisory Service (the forerunner of PlagiarismAdvice.org) back in 2002. The Oxford Brookes Good Practice Guide written by Jude and colleague, Jon Appleton, in 2001, is also still considered a blueprint for institutional thinking on plagiarism.

As a member of the Plagiarism Advisory Service’s Advisory Board Jude helped to guide the service and its approach, and remains a highly-valued supporter of the service today.

More recently Jude’s work with the influential Assessment Standards Knowledge exchange (ASKe) CETL at Oxford Brookes University has taken her to the Royal Technical University in Stockholm to consider Scandinavian responses to “fusk” (plagiarism) and to share lessons learned in the UK. Jude will keynote at the 2010 Fourth International Plagiarism Conference on her work in this area with internationally diverse cultures and differing assessment styles.

Plagiarismadvice.org will be exhibiting at the Online Educa Berlin, on the 2nd-4th December 2009, the 15th Conference on  Technology Supported Learning and Training, at the Hotel InterContinental, Berlin.

Plagiarismadvice.org will be exhibiting at the Association of Colleges Annual Conference on the 17th - 19th November at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham

The following is the provisional programme for the User Group meeting to be held on 10th September, 2009

PLAGIARISMADVICE.ORG USER GROUP MEETING
10 September 2009
De Grey Lecture Theatre, De Grey House, York St. John University.

12.00 noon Arrival, registration and lunch.

12.40pm Welcome and introductions (Mark Dransfield, York St. John University).

1.00 – 1.40 PlagiarismAdvice.org update. Will Murray & Anne Flood, updates and developments including statistics for the last 6 months.

1.40 - 2.00 Questions to PlagiarismAdvice.org.

2.00 - 3.20 Institutional case studies:

2.05 Carol Bailey (Using GradeMark with International Students)

2.25 Esyin Chew (Academics’ and Students’ experiences using GradeMark)

2.40 Lawrence West (Results of a Funded Project using GradeMark)

3.00 Jim Turner (Student and Staff Feedback after using GradeMark)

3.20-3.30 Refreshments

3.30-4.15 Discussion groups (topics to be confirmed).

4.15 - 4.45 Feedback from groups.

4.45 Closing remarks and summary.

5.00 Close

The finalised programme will be published nearer to the time.

PlagiarismAdvice.org are delighted to announce details of the Fourth International Plagiarism Conference, which will take place between 21-23 June, 2010 at City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Further information on themes for the conference will follow in the near future, however if you would like to register your interest at this early stage please complete the online form.

Abstracts, papers and presentations from the previous three conferences can be found via the conference website.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Ibrahim Bitikcioglu, our Turkish member of the team, was recently entered into the Student Employee of the Year awards by nLearning and was successful in the North East heat! Ibrahim has been working at the company for 6 months now and has helped us immensely in targeting the Turkish market. We currently have 3 students working part time and covering Polish, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish and Czech and we are always looking at the possibility of expanding the team and our language capabilities further. If you would be interested in finding out more, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Ibrahim was interviewed as part of the Award process and the short video of this, where he talks about his experiences with the company, can be viewed below.