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 Plagiarism advice) 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 4th International Plagiarism Conference on her work in this area with internationally diverse cultures and differing assessment styles.
