The Professor Tracey Bretag Prize for Academic Integrity

It recognises educators, professional staff and student groups who build a culture of academic integrity in higher education. Studiosity's Academic Advisory Board judges it, with global oversight from Chief Academic Officer Professor Judyth Sachs. 2026 was the sixth year.

The Prize keeps a promise Studiosity made to Professor Tracey Bretag: to recognise those advancing academic integrity in higher education. Its purpose is to advocate for, and give a platform to, academic integrity as part of a positive teaching and learning experience.

In September 2020, Studiosity's founder Jack Goodman wrote to Tracey to ask her permission to create an annual academic integrity award in her name, and she gave her blessing. Tracey worked alongside the Studiosity team, giving advice and guidance and sharing her research at events.

• A professor at the University of South Australia and a global name in academic integrity research.
• Founding editor of the International Journal for Educational Integrity.
• An advocate for a whole-of-institution, evidence-based, student-centric approach to integrity.
• A keynote speaker and visiting professor across the UK, Canada, Dubai, Czechia, Lithuania, Chile, Indonesia and her home city of Adelaide, Australia.
• Presented with a lifetime achievement award by the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) in 2020.
• Died on 7 October 2020. In February 2021 she was honoured posthumously with a Career Achievement Award from the Australian Awards for University Teaching.

In 2025, entries focused on frameworks and policies. 2026 entries assumed that groundwork was done and addressed implementation and culture.

• Regional overall winner: ECAIU Student Board and Active Committee, ENAI WG Centre for Academic Integrity in the UAE. An outstanding student-led initiative that scales beyond its home institution.
• Commended: Dr Kamran Sattar Baloch, King Saud University. Advancing Academic Integrity through Medical Professionalism, Fitness to Practice, Assessment Quality, and Student Wellbeing.
• Regional finalist: Mohanad Halaweh, Al Ain University. Academic Integrity in the Age of Generative AI Through Responsible AI Use.

• Regional overall winner: the Technology Enhanced Learning Team (TEL Team), University of Greenwich. Empowering a Culture of AI Integrity, Technological Confidence and Digital Innovation Amongst Educators to Enhance Student Success. Recognised for proven reach and impact, tried and tested at scale.
• Commended: AI Learning & Teaching Advisory Group, Bournemouth University. BU-SCALE: Bournemouth University Spectrum of Coursework AI Levels & Expectations. Gives staff clear frameworks for AI expectations and connects integrity with AI literacy.
• Commended: Artem Artyukhov, Sumy State University, Ukraine. Academic Integrity Learning Ecosystem: From Student Agency to Responsible AI. Builds an international integrity network through courses, workshops and publications.

• Regional winner: Laura Dumin, University of Central Oklahoma. Interactions with and Reflections on AI. Detailed evidence of practice and a systematic strategy that appears to be working after three years.
• Commended: Dr Ruth Baker-Gardner, University of the West Indies. Academic Integrity in the Anglophone Caribbean. Fills a critical geographical gap, building integrity practice across borders for educators and students.
• Commended: Greer Murphy and colleagues, University of California, Santa Cruz. Banana Slugs Unite! Building a Campus Culture of Integrity, One Partnership at a Time. A collaborative approach with student success at the centre and concrete institutional outcomes.

• Regional winner: Mollie Dollinger and the Assessment 2030 team, Curtin University. Assessment 2030. A whole-of-university approach to assessment redesign, with students as partners and impact across the wider sector.
• Commended: Aaron Timoshanko, Noeleen McNamara, Kerstin Braun and Vincent Goding, University of Southern Queensland. Evaluating the impact of an AI literacy intervention on law students. A strong quantitative evaluation and a freely available framework for law schools in Australia and New Zealand.
• Regional finalist: Evelyn Hui Ting Gay, Tiffany Ip, Chan Kah Mun, Ho Yan Yin and Lyndon Lim, Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). VERIFIED: A Student-Centred Academic Integrity Ecosystem for the GenAI Era. Scale, longevity, student focus and strong student endorsement.

The panel prioritises nominations that are learner-first, evidence-driven and scaled, with meaningful impact on integrity culture within or across institutions. The strongest nominations move beyond anecdotal success to objectively prove they develop a culture of educational integrity.

This standard of excellence is defined by foundational work such as:

• Dr Guy Curtis's leadership of the TEQSA Academic Integrity Toolkit (2021).
• The TEQSA Assessment Reform partnership (2024).
• The University of Greenwich's gamified "Integrity Matters" movement (2024).
• Dr Zeenath Reza Khan's ENAI WG Centre for Academic Integrity in the UAE, University of Wollongong in Dubai (2024).
• Dr Shiva Sivasubramaniam's establishment of a Biomedical Science Academic Working Group (2025).
• The RAINZ Collective, which engaged every university in New Zealand (2025).
• The University of Calgary and Brock University's framework for "Postplagiarism" in the AI era (Kumar and Eaton, 2025).

Educators, professional staff and student groups in four regions:

• UK and Europe
• North America
• Middle East
• Asia/Oceania

Nominees must be a currently employed academic or professional staff member, a currently enrolled student, or a group such as a research group, organisation or student union. They must live in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, Canada or the United States.

There is one prize per region, paid as a donation to the winner's institution:

Or the equivalent in local currency.