CRADLE Fellowship Appointment: Associate Professor Wendy Sutherland-Smith

7 December 2016

CRADLE is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Wendy Sutherland-Smith has been named as the recipient of a CRADLE Fellowship. Associate Professor Sutherland-Smith is Director of Teaching and Learning (Pedagogy and Quality Improvement) in the Faculty of Health’s School of Psychology, Deakin University. During her Fellowship at CRADLE she will further her work in the area of contract cheating in assessment.

Associate Professor Sutherland-Smith’s research interests span teaching and learning integrity at all levels of university relationships, including ethical assessment, authentic mentoring and academic integrity in policy and practice. She has researched academic integrity issues such as plagiarism, collusion, and more recently contract cheating, since the 1990s. She completed her doctoral research on plagiarism, the internet and international student learning in 2005, which was published as a monograph by Routledge (New York) in 2008.

Associate Professor Sutherland-Smith has presented her ongoing academic integrity research internationally, including Australia, UK, Japan, the Middle East, Canada, Sweden and New Zealand. She has published extensively in the field of academic integrity, and is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal for Educational Integrity.