Tracey Bretag Prize 2026: Integrity, humanity, learning.

October 2026

Announcing the results of the 2026 Tracey Bretag Prize for Academic Integrity

The Professor Tracey Bretag Prize for Academic Integrity has closed for its sixth year, so we are now pleased to share the results by region.

If 2025 was the year of frameworks and policies, 2026 entries assumed that that groundwork is done and addressed the task, implementation, and culture. 

Middle East

• Regional Overall Winner: ECAIU Student Board and Active Committee, ENAI WG Centre for Academic Integrity in the UAE. Honoured as an outstanding student-led initiative that scales beyond its home institution.
• Commended Initiative: 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

UK & Europe

• 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. The panel recognised the initiative's proven reach and impact, highlighting the impressive scale and complexity of its joined-up parts that have been tried and tested at scale.
• Commended Initiative: AI Learning & Teaching Advisory Group, Bournemouth University - BU-SCALE: Bournemouth University Spectrum of Coursework AI Levels & Expectations. Recognised for directly addressing common challenges around AI expectations, providing staff with clear frameworks while connecting integrity and AI literacy with positive impact across the university.
• Commended Initiative: Artem Artyukhov, Sumy State University, Ukraine - Academic Integrity Learning Ecosystem: From Student Agency to Responsible AI. Commended for significant personal commitment to advancing integrity internationally, building an international network, and delivering emerging thought leadership through courses, workshops, and publications.

North America

• Regional Winner: Laura Dumin, University of Central Oklahoma - Interactions with and Reflections on AI. Judges highlighted the detailed evidence of what is happening in practice, a systematic strategy that appears to be working after three years, and a course from which most undergraduate students would benefit.
• Commended Project: Dr Ruth Baker-Gardner, University of the West Indies - Academic Integrity in the Anglophone Caribbean. Commended for a thoughtful, well-designed program that fills a critical geographical gap, leveraging technology to build integrity practices across borders for both educators and students.
• Commended Project: Greer Murphy and colleagues, University of California, Santa Cruz - Banana Slugs Unite! Building a Campus Culture of Integrity, One Partnership at a Time. Highlighted for a highly collaborative approach that puts student success at the centre, backed by clear scope and concrete institutional outcomes.

Asia-Pacific

• Regional Winner: Mollie Dollinger and the Assessment 2030 team, Curtin University - Assessment 2030. Awarded for an outstanding and ambitious whole-of-university approach to assessment redesign, distributed leadership with students as partners, strong external interest, and impact across both the university and the wider sector.
• Commended Initiative: Aaron Timoshanko, Noeleen McNamara, Kerstin Braun and Vincent Goding, University of Southern Queensland - Evaluating the impact of an AI literacy intervention on law students. Recognised for providing a strong quantitative evaluation of impact, demonstrating clear evidence of an integrity mindset and providing a freely available framework for law schools across 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. Reached the final shortlist for an exceptional combination of scale, longevity, student focus and evidence, impressive numbers and innovative units, and strong student endorsement of a scalable ecosystem.

Congratulations again to our winners, commended entrants and finalists, and thank you to all nominees, nominators and referees - a large network of people who brought these projects through the Prize to be recognised on this global stage, and in Tracey's memory.

Our sincere thanks to our global Academic Advisory Board, who give their time each year to judge the Prize, so that we can keep the promise we made with Tracey: to recognise those advancing academic integrity in higher education.

About the Prize

This sixth annual Prize continues our promise to a world-leading integrity researcher and friend, Professor Tracey Bretag.

The Prize's purpose is to advocate for, and provide a platform for, the pursuit of academic integrity as part of a positive teaching and learning experience.

• A global name in academic integrity, Professor Tracey Bretag was founding editor of the International Journal for Educational Integrity and an advocate for a whole-of-institution, evidence-based, and student-centric approach to integrity. 

   

• Sought-after keynote and visiting professor around the world - across the UK, Canada, Dubai, Czechia, Lithuania, Chile, Indonesia, and at home in Adelaide, Australia, it was no surprise to many that Tracey would be presented with a lifetime achievement award by the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) in 2020. 

April 2026

Today, we are proud to announce the call for nominations for the 2026 Tracey Bretag Prize for Academic Integrity.

This sixth annual Prize continues our promise to a world-leading integrity researcher and friend, Professor Tracey Bretag.

The Prize's purpose is to advocate for, and provide a platform for, the pursuit of academic integrity as part of a positive teaching and learning experience.

• A global name in academic integrity, Professor Tracey Bretag was founding editor of the International Journal for Educational Integrity and an advocate for a whole-of-institution, evidence-based, and student-centric approach to integrity. 

   

• Sought-after keynote and visiting professor around the world - across the UK, Canada, Dubai, Czechia, Lithuania, Chile, Indonesia, and at home in Adelaide, Australia, it was no surprise to many that Tracey would be presented with a lifetime achievement award by the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) in 2020. 
  
  

Who Should Apply?

The Prize is a global platform for educators, professional staff, and student groups who are advancing the understanding of best practice. We welcome nominations from:

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

Nominate and find terms at: studiosity.com/tracey

What does the panel look for?

The Studiosity Academic Advisory Board - with global oversight from Chief Academic Officer, Professor Judyth Sachs - prioritises nominations that embody a learner-first, evidence-driven, scaled approach, specifically seeking projects that show meaningful impact on educational integrity culture within or across institutions.

This standard of excellence is defined by foundational work such as that from Dr Guy Curtis’s (2021) leadership of the TEQSA Academic Integrity Toolkit as well as the 2024 nominated TEQSA Assessment Reform partnership.

The Panel looks for initiatives that demonstrate objective impact at scale, such as the University of Greenwich’s (2024) gamified "Integrity Matters" movement, Dr Zeenath Reza Khan's (University of Wollongong in Dubai) ENAI Working Group (WG) Centre for Academic Integrity in the UAE, and Dr Shiva Sivasubramaniam’s (2025) establishment of a Biomedical Science Academic Working Group.

Whether your work involves massive multi-institutional collaboration like the RAINZ Collective (2025) (which engaged every university in New Zealand) or conceptual innovation like the University of Calgary and Brock University’s (2025) framework for "Postplagiarism" in the AI era (Kumar and Eaton) your nomination will provide data needed to prove it has fundamentally transformed - or shows evidence of starting to - the culture of educational integrity.

The most successful nominations will be those that move beyond anecdotal success to objectively prove their projects effectively develop a culture of educational integrity.

Key Dates for 2026

The winners in 2025

The winners last year presented a strong focus on pedagogy-first AI integration, a proactive and educative approach to integrity, and demonstrable impact through collaborative efforts. 

• Prof Sarah Elaine Eaton and Dr Rahul Kumar (North America winner) at the University of Calgary and Brock University respectively, developed the "Postplagiarism" framework, redefining academic integrity in the AI age with six tenets, promoting ethical human-AI co-creation and valuing attribution.
• Dr Shiva Sivasubramaniam (UK winner) at the University of Roehampton established a Biomedical Science Academic Working Group to provide subject-specific AI ethics guidelines and conducted over 200 workshops globally, impacting universities worldwide.
• The RAINZ Collective from New Zealand (Asia-Pacific winner) conducted a nationwide survey on undergraduate academic integrity, using insights to drive policy revisions, establish communities of practice, and redesign assessments across all NZ universities.

Past Prize winners