Ethics, Medical ethics and Academic Integrity
Dr Shiva Sivasubramaniam
Publications
Please find selected work from Dr Shiva and his international collaborators in the fields of academic integrity and ethics
A close encounter with ghost-writers: an initial exploration study on background, strategies and attitudes of independent essay providers
Academic dishonesty presents in different forms, including fabrication of data, falsifying references, multiple submissions, collusion, and sabotage, with two forms haunting academia, namely plagiarism and contract cheating or ghost writing. These latter forms have received considerable attention and have been subjects for research...
Retrospective Analysis of Plagiaristic Practices
within a Cinematic Industry in India – a Tip
in the Ocean of Icebergs
Music plagiarism is defined as using tune, or melody that would closely imitate with another author’s music without proper attributions. It may occur either by stealing a musical idea (a melody or motif) or sampling (a portion of one sound, or tune is copied into a different song)...
A NEW BREED OF GHOST-WRITERS: EXPLORING THE NEW THREAT TO THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY VIA INTERNATIONALISATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Contract cheating (or ghost writing) is a growing problem in higher education that can only be handled with academic wisdom/experience. Signs such as using quotes from abstracts, verbosity, and perfection with technical word usage are good indicators of this offense...
ELECTRONIC PLAGIARISM DETECTION SOFTWARE AS SELF-TEACHING TOOL FOR PLAGIARISM AVOIDANCE IN BIOSCIENCE UNDERGRADUATES
Following the initial enhancement of plagiarism detection by Turnitinâ, academics started to use it successfully. However, many academics are using it as detection software, without using this as a tool to enhance the students’ learning...
Initiating count down - gamification of
academic integrity
Any problem is a problem until a solution is designed and implemented. This paper
reports on a workshop that highlights preliminary work done by the working group
on Gamification in the scope of European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI),
which aims to explore the possibility of developing...
Surveying academic integrity: Methodological issues and lessons learned
Questionnaire-based survey is an efficient method for collection of large scale, longitudinal, comparative quantitative data. Therefore, we can find numerous examples of research on academic integrity that have employed surveys. However, there are cases when...
ENGAGING MEDICAL AND BIOMEDICAL STUDENTS TOWARDS ETHICS AND ETHICAL CONDUCT VIA CASE STUDY BASED APPROACH: REFLECTIONS FROM AN ONLINE WORKSHOP
Ethics and ethical behaviour form an important part in clinical science and biomedical research. Ethical education should be comprehensively taught aiming to help graduate/undergraduate students to practice by applying underlying principle...
Assisting you to advance with ethics in
research: an introduction to ethical
governance and application procedures
Ethics and ethical behaviour are the fundamental pillars of a civilised society. The
focus on ethical behaviour is indispensable in certain fields such as medicine,
finance, or law. In fact, ethics gets precedence with anything that would include,
affect, transform, or influence upon...
‘e’-thinking teaching and assessment to
uphold academic integrity: lessons learned
from emergency distance learning
Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on many day-to-day activities but one of the
biggest collateral impacts was felt by the education sector. The nature and the
complexity of higher education is such that no matter how prepared we are as
faculty, how planned our teaching and assessments...
Unethical practices within medical research
and publication – An exploratory study
The data produced by the scientific community impacts on academia, clinicians, and the general public; therefore, the scientific community and other regulatory bodies have been focussing on ethical codes of conduct. Despite the measures taken...
Gamifying Academic Integrity – the first steps
Any problem is a problem till a solution can be designed and implemented. This workshop highlights preliminary work done by the working group of ENAI Gamification that aims to explore the possibility of developing and testing a gamified learning module on academic integrity values.
Workshop on academic integrity self-evaluation tools
Academic integrity is fundamental to maintaining standards in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and underpins the quality of teaching, learning and research. It is important for HEIs to implement institution-wide strategies and policies for promoting a culture of academic integrity...
Varying institutional procedures for dealing with student academic misconduct: A short comparative analysis
Establishing and maintaining academic integrity has always been a focal point amongst all higher education organisations. Different institutions use a variety of measures to deter, detect, and discipline student as well as staff misconducts.
Developing guidelines for academic integrity
This presentation aims to present the international experience of developing general guidelines on academic integrity under the Erasmus+ project “European Network for Academic Integrity”. These general guidelines serve as a supportive document for the glossary for academic integrity developed by the project
Real-life ethical dilemmas: A case study approach to engage the medical and biomedical students towards bio/medical ethics
Ethics and ethical behaviour form important part in clinical science and biomedical research. Whilst patient safety, confidentiality and privacy take precedence in clinical medicine; ethically warranted study design, methodologies and data handling is vital for biomedical research...
Ethical dilemmas: A case study approach to engage the medical and biomedical students and early career researchers
Many young doctors are getting involved in basic research and scholarly activities outside their usual territory of “clinical/patient-based medicine” involving in vitro/animal research, and data handling. Likewise, several basic scientists...