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Academic Integrity

As Ireland’s leading university, we recognise that academic integrity must underpin all aspects of our educational ecosystem, including all activities relating to research, learning, assessment, and scholarship. Indeed, academic integrity is a core feature of Trinity’s academic culture and is the cornerstone of university life.

Accordingly, in 2022, the University’s Council renewed Trinity’s commitment to ‘acting responsibly and ethically, embracing integrity in all our actions and interactions as members of the College community’.  As part of its Statement of Principles on Integrity, the College insists that staff and students ‘give credit where credit is due, recognizing and acknowledging the contributions and achievements of others in scholarship, teaching, research and service.’

Academic integrity can be described as a commitment to, and compliance with:

ethical and professional principles, standards, practices and consistent system of values, that serve as guidance for making decisions and taking actions in education, research and scholarship (NAIN Lexicon, p.3)

Recognising our responsibility to our students and to wider society to nurture and safeguard academic integrity, Trinity is working collaboratively with peer institutions in Ireland, with the active support of national and international networks, to assure and enhance academic integrity at every level of the University. For further information see:

 

The following websites support faculty and staff to access current information and guidance relating to academic integrity in Trinity.

Academic Integrity Steering Group (AISG)
The AISG plays a key role in supporting College Strategy and policy development relating to academic integrity.
Policies and Procedures (Academic Affairs)
Academic Affairs supports the development of College policy and procedure relating to academic integrity.
Strengthening Academic Integrity in Academic Practice (Centre for Academic Practice)
The Centre for Academic Practice provides supports and guidance for faculty to ensure that teaching, learning and assessment practices support and strengthen academic integrity.
Research Integrity (Dean of Research)
The office of the Dean of Research provides supports and guidance for faculty to ensure that academic integrity principles underpin all stages fo the research cycle.

The development of these resources is supported by the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Funding in Higher Education (SATLE), a National Forum and Higher Education Authority initiative designed to drive teaching and learning innovation and enhancement across the Irish higher education sector. Other areas prioritised by SATLE include Education for Sustainable Development and Digital Transformation.