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.

Enhancing Student Employability Through The Peer Review Of Professional Online Presences

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I’ve previously shared my work on integrating student Professional Online Presences into teaching at various conferences and invited talks, but it’s a couple of years since I’ve provided a research update. The ideas are now much more accepted and mainstream when they were when I first started working in the field. Many students realise that …

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An Exploration of Contract Cheating and Academic Misconduct Within Health Education Video

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Here is a video version of my talk from the Birmingham City University Pedagogies, Practitioners and Identities in Education Conference. You can see the slides and discussion from the health essays talk here. I’m currently working on an academic paper relating to these ideas. In the meantime, I’m more than happy to present this work …

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An Exploration of Contract Cheating and Academic Misconduct Within Health Education

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One of the more interesting inter-disciplinary topics I’ve been involved with is that of cheating in healthcare. This covers examples that we’ve found in our research, ranging across nursing, pharmacy, medicine and other health disciplines. I got the chance to present some of the findings from that research at a talk that formed part of …

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Nursing Essays and Nursing Essay Mills – A Word Cloud Exploration

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Here’s a visual word cloud representation of what I talked about in the video for Examining The Ease Of Buying Nursing Essays Online Through Essay Mills And Contract Cheating Sites. The word cloud was created from the automatic transcription generated for the video by YouTube. The transcription wasn’t completely accurate, as it messed up quite …

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Examining The Ease Of Buying Nursing Essays Online Through Essay Mills And Contract Cheating Sites

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The question about the cheating that goes on in nursing and medicine education has come up frequently in the dealings I’ve had with print, radio and TV media. The reasons for this are understandable. Everyone wants to know that the nurses treating them are qualified and capable of providing safe and suitable care. Whilst the …

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