16 September 2022

The topic this year is “Challenging Cheating” which intentionally can be interpreted as having many meanings from the challenges that cheating poses to education, to challenging the very idea of cheating, and beyond – be prepared for contradictory perspectives to be unpacked. We are proud to host two exciting interactive public events as pivotal highlights of the symposium program. These include a Keynote Presentation and a Panel Session.

Keynote Presentation

Our first event is a Keynote Presentation on Wednesday 12 October at 10am (AEDT) by Dr Sarah Eaton, associate professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, who will problematicise the complex issues and challenges of academic ethics, integrity and ‘wicked problems’ such as contract cheating in her presentation “Academic Integrity as a Transdisciplinary Field of Research, Policy, and Practice”.

• Register here: Eventbrite – Keynote Presentation

Panel Session

We also invite you to take part in our second event, an Interactive Panel Session, to conclude the Symposium on Tuesday 18 October at 3pm (AEDT).  Our expert panellists will be:

• Professor Bruce MacFarlane, The Education University of Hong Kong,
• Professor Jeannie Paterson, University of Melbourne,
• Dr Vicky Nagy, University of Tasmania, and
• CRADLE’s Professor Phill Dawson.

Informed by the closed part of the Symposium, this session will attempt to unpack suppositions and shifting positions relating to cheating in higher education. We plan to collaborate to pick apart the taken-for-granted assumptions that surround cheating, and chart a new way forward.

• Register here: Eventbrite – Panel Session

Please join us as part of our annual event where we will tackle the controversial and big issues surrounding cheating, a topic that may raise more questions than answers! Our Blog Symposium page and the CRADLE Website have more details.