International Students, Academic Writing and Plagiarism Conference, Lancaster University
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the conference and made it such an interesting, challenging and altogether worthwhile event. We are hoping to add to this website in due course, i.e. presentation slides and videos.
5 September (arrival day)
5-7pm Opening Reception, Lancaster University Management School, The Leadership Centre (in the new Management School extension foyer)
6 September
9am Registration and coffee, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University
9.30am Welcome by Professor Roz Ivanic, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
Introduction by Professor Lucas Introna, Department of Organisation, Work & Technology, Lancaster University
Session 1: International Students
9.45am Ouyang Huhua, Professor of English, Faculty of English Language & Culture
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and Research Fellow, National Center of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, China
"Understanding the Chinese Learners’ Community of Practices: An Insider-Outsider’s View" (abstract)
10.40am Coffee break
11am Dr Anja Timm, Lancaster University Management School
"Educational practices at undergraduate level in Greece" and "Educational practices at undergraduate level in India" (summary of the research findings from the Student Diversity and Academic Writing Project)
11.55am Dr Yvonne Turner, University of Newcastle Business School
"Culture and Pedagogy: international students and inclusive practices in local HE classrooms"
12.45pm Lunch
Session 2: Academic Writing
Chair: Dr Niall Hayes, Lancaster University Management School
2pm Diane Schmitt, Nottingham Trent University
3pm Dr Rebecca Moore Howard, Syracuse University, USA
"Behind Citation" (abstract)
3.55pm Coffee break
4.15pm Professor Russ Hunt, St. Thomas University, Canada
"The social life of texts: classroom and academic genres and purloined passages" (abstract)
5.10 pm Summary of the day by Professor Rosemary Deem, Graduate School of Education, Bristol University
7.30pm Conference Dinner at the Gatehouse Restaurant
7 September
9am Jude Carroll, Oxford Brookes University
"Five things that worry me about plagiarism in 2007"
Session 3: Plagiarism
Chair: Dr Edgar Whitley, London School of Economics, Department of Management
9.30am Dr Sue Saltmarsh, Charles Sturt University, Australia
"Producing/consuming the subject/s of plagiarism: intervention and its antecedents" (abstract)
10.25am Coffee break
10.45am Dr Diane Pecorari, Mälardalen University, Sweden
"Best practice for handling source use and misuse in student writing" (abstract)
11.40am Dr Fiona Duggan, JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service
"Institutional responses to student plagiarism in UK HEI’s – interim findings from the AMBeR project" (abstract)
12.10pm Lunch
1.15pm Baroness Ruth Deech, The Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education
Session 4: Electronic Detection & Policy
1.30pm Professor Lucas Introna, Dr Niall Hayes, Dr Edgar Whitley.
On the limitations of electronic detection software (summary of the research findings from the Student Diversity and Academic Writing Project)
2.45pm Coffee break
3pm Discussion of implications and policy led by Professor Chris Park, Graduate School, Lancaster University
3.50pm Summary of the day by Jude Carroll, Oxford Brookes University
4pm Conference ends
Our conference organiser was Teresa Wisniewska.
