AI and Academic Integrity 2026
Thursday 11 June 2026
Virtual Conference
The AI and Academic Integrity Conference 2026 will explore how universities can design robust, future-ready approaches to teaching, assessment and academic integrity that both uphold academic standards and prepare students to learn, think and succeed in an AI-enabled world.
The Conference will explore practical strategies for:
Designing AI-resilient assessment and feedback
Supporting students to develop ethical and effective AI practices
Building AI literacy as a core graduate capability
Moving institutional policy beyond detection and enforcement
Ensuring academic integrity remains central to learning in an AI-enabled world
Why attend the conference?
Assess how your institution can redesign assessment, policy and learning approaches to maintain academic integrity while supporting responsible and effective student use of AI
Discover practical approaches for embedding AI literacy, ethical decision-making and transparent assessment practices across teaching, learning and academic governance
Develop a roadmap for building sustainable institutional strategies that protect academic standards while preparing students to thrive in an AI-enabled future
Confirmed Speakers
Dr Chelle Oldham
University Academic Integrity Co-Lead
The Open University
Professor Naomi Winstone
Professor of Educational Psychology
University of Surrey
Professor Mary Davis
Academic Integrity Lead
Oxford Brookes University
Agenda
09:30 am
Chair’s Welcome Address
09:40 am
The New Reality: Academic Integrity in an AI-Native University
How has generative AI reshaped student learning behaviours, assessment practices and institutional expectations?
The scale of student adoption of generative AI and what this means for academic integrity
Why detection-based approaches are reaching their limits
The widening gap between institutional policy and student practice
What academic leaders must prioritise in the next phase of AI adoption
Dr Thomas Lancaster
Principal Teaching Fellow
Imperial College London (invited)
10:10 am
From “AI Proof” to AI-Resilient: Redesigning Assessment for the Next Decade
Many traditional assessment formats are no longer reliable indicators of learning in an AI-enabled environment.
This session will explore how institutions can redesign assessment to ensure validity and authenticity:
Why essays and take-home coursework are increasingly vulnerable to AI assistance
The emergence of hybrid assessment models combining secure and AI-enabled tasks
Designing assessments that demonstrate process, reasoning and critical thinking
Embedding authenticity and real-world application into assessment design
Professor Danny Liu
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Portfolio
University of Sydney (invited)
10:50 am
Break and Networking
11:05 am
The AI-Literate Graduate: What Capabilities Should Universities Be Assessing?
As AI transforms the workplace, universities must ensure graduates understand how to work effectively with AI.
This session explores the foundations of the AI-literate graduate:
Embedding AI literacy into programme-level learning outcomes
Assessing conceptual understanding, ethical awareness and applied AI capability
Using AI-supported projects, simulations and peer review in assessment
Balancing AI capability development with academic integrity
Professor Neil Morris
Director of Digital Transformation
Edge Hill University (invited)
11:45 am
Rethinking “Original Work” in the Age of Human-AI Collaboration
What does originality mean when knowledge production increasingly involves AI tools?
This session will explore the evolving concept of originality in higher education:
Why the traditional idea of “100% human-generated work” is becoming increasingly difficult to define
The tensions between academic integrity, collaboration and AI assistance
How assessment validity may provide a better framework than originality alone
Moving institutional policy away from a “police-catch-punish” mindset toward supporting learning and development
Dr Chelle Oldham
University Academic Integrity Co-Lead
The Open University (CONFIRMED)
12:25 pm
Break and Networking
1:00 pm
Evidence from the Front Line: What AI Can (and Cannot) Do in Assessment
What have recent studies revealed about how generative AI performs in real assessments?
This session will examine emerging research and practice across universities:
Where generative AI succeeds in answering assessment tasks
Why AI detection tools are unreliable and produce false positives
Common hallmarks of AI-generated work and their limitations
Lessons for designing more robust assessment frameworks
Professor Alison Littlejohn
Pro Vice Provost
UCL (invited)
1:50 pm
Break and Networking
2:05 pm
Designing Integrity by Default: Building Systemic Feedback and Learning Cultures
Academic integrity is most effective when embedded across the learning experience.
This session will explore how universities can design system-wide approaches to integrity:
Integrating feedback across modules to reinforce learning and ethical practice
Making feedback a dialogue that supports reflection and improvement
Standardising feedback frameworks to improve transparency and fairness
Using technology and AI tools to support scalable, high-quality feedback
Professor Naomi Winstone
Professor of Educational Psychology
University of Surrey (CONFIRMED)
2:45 pm
Teaching Ethical AI Use: Supporting Students with Transparency
Students increasingly rely on AI tools in their academic work—but many lack clear guidance on how to use them responsibly.
This session will explore institutional approaches to teaching ethical AI practice:
Helping students understand acceptable, risky and inappropriate AI use
Developing accessible frameworks for ethical decision-making
Using transparency tools to support integrity
Designing guidance that evolves alongside rapidly changing AI tools
Professor Mary Davis
Academic Integrity Lead
Oxford Brookes University (CONFIRMED)
3:25 pm
Conference Close & Key Takeaways
What academic integrity will look like in the next five years
The shift from detection to assessment transformation
The leadership decisions universities must make now
Practical next steps institutions can begin implementing
Audience
This Conference is designed for higher education professionals responsible for academic integrity, assessment design, teaching delivery and quality assurance in higher education. Those in attendance will include:
Pro Vice-Chancellors (Education, Learning & Teaching
Directors and Heads of Academic Quality, Standards and Governance
Academic Integrity Leads and Academic Conduct Officer
Directors and Heads of Teaching and Learning
Heads of Educational Development and Academic Practice
Academic Registrars and Registry Leaders
Programme Directors, Course Leaders and Lecturers
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HE and Public Sector
£195 + VAT
Private Sector
£395 + VAT
HE Team of 3
£526.50 + VAT
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