Keynote Speakers

"The past and future of academic integrity: What has changed in the past 20 years and what will change in the years ahead"

Associate Professor Guy Curtis is a faculty member in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and multi-award-winning university teacher. He graduated with a PhD in psychology in 2002 and has been actively researching academic integrity for over two decades. Professor Curtis has published over 50 journal articles, including research charting trends, prevalence, and predictors of academic misconduct. He was recently ranked by ScholarGPS™ among the top 0.5% of researchers in research on higher education in the past 5 years. In recognition of his expertise, he has been contracted by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) to provide nationwide resources and education on academic integrity in Australia. In 2021, Professor Curtis was awarded Studiosity Australia’s inaugural Tracey Bretag Prize for outstanding commitment to advancing the understanding and implementation of academic integrity.

Professor Curtis has made highly impactful editorial contributions to higher education and academic integrity scholarship. He co-edited the first scholarly book on contract cheating in higher education (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-12680-2), the contract cheating section of the Second Handbook of Academic Integrity (https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-981-287-079-7), and the recent book Academic Integrity in the Social Sciences (https://link.springer.com/book/9783031432910). Professor Curtis is a current Co-Editor of the journal Higher Education Research & Development.

For more information see: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/guy-curtis