Thomas Lancaster

I am an experienced Computer Science academic, best known for research work into academic integrity, plagiarism and contract cheating. I have held leadership positions in several universities, with specialty in student recruitment and keen interest in working in partnership with students. Please browse around the blog and the links, and feel free to leave your thoughts.

How To Give A Convincing 10 Minute RESCON Research Presentation

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Birmingham City University recently held its 2013 version of RESCON and I delivered a short presentation on an aspect of our contract cheating research. This is an internal conference, bringing together the breadth of research across Birmingham City University. Whilst there was some excellent research presented, showing the skill base of both the Birmingham City …

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Cutting The Cost Of Custom Essay Writing – Examining The Financial Market Behind Contract Cheating

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One of the biggest challenges I’ve had recently is condensing some of the research highlights behind contract cheating into a talk timed to last just 10 minutes, for Birmingham City University’s RESCON conference. The slides, also available on SlideShare account for Thomas Lancaster, are the result. This talk looked particularly at the pricing of essays, …

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The Threat Of Contract Cheating – Examining The Paid For Assignment Solutions Unduly Populating The Computing Discipline

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Contract cheating still poses a threat within the Computing discipline, although our observations are that this has expanded widely into other academic disciplines, particularly Business Studies, and including at MBA level. These slides are from a recent research seminar delivered at University of West London, and contain new examples relating to the costs associated with …

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The Contract Cheating Saga Of Crazylarry23

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Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today called Crazylarry23 “the stupid plagiarist”. Mark Graban of Lean Blog seemed surprised that an example of postgraduate level cheating was up on Freelancer.com. He also acknowledged Michel Baudin for originally publicising this attempt at contract cheating, although that blog post no longer seems to be active. As an academic, who …

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