Student Diversity & Academic Writing Project
This research and development project explores the intersection of two crucial issues for the postgraduate higher education sector: international students and plagiarism
The project is now complete
The resources created by the project is avaiable on the project resources website located here:
Following a successful bid to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) under the Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning (FDTL) researchers from Lancaster University Management School and London School of Economics are jointly investigating plagiarism, an area highly significant to policy and practice in UK universities today.
The aims of the project are:
- to inject timely and topical research results into the debate about the way international students are recruited, prepared and taught and how plagiarism can be deterred
- to develop resources that will be of use to various groups within the the higher education sector and support its engagement with the issues of student diversity and academic writing, e.g. teaching staff, senior managers, educational developers, etc.
The project started in January 2005 and will complete in spring 2008. Please refer to the research page to learn more about our project activities. Some additional dissemination activities - with new stakeholders - will continue throughout 2008.
Dissemination for this project has been ongoing. Our final project conference took place in early September 2007 and brought together an international group of researchers and policy makers in Lancaster (conference programme). The new website will allow us to make conference presentations, papers and videos available to a wider audience.
Our last two external dissemination events were at the Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Association of Business Schools in Stratford upon Avon in October 2007 and at Conference of the UK Council for International Student Affairs UKCISA in association with the National Union of Students in November 2007.
Papers and presentations produced by the SDAW team have been uploaded onto the Resources page. These are also available on the project website.
If you have any queries or suggestions regarding the project or this site, please do not hesitate to contact Dr Niall Hayes or Prof. Lucas Introna.
