What are the different types of Academic Misconduct

This is the guidance the university publish on types of academic misconduct. Further information can be found on the Student Portal. Please scroll down on this page where you will find further information on guidance on AI tools, 

• Plagiarism – using other peoples’ ideas or text without acknowledgement (see below).
• Collusion – working with others on an assignment that is then submitted as your own.*
• Falsification – presenting made-up data or other false information as fact.
• Personation – assuming the identity of someone else to submit work or take an examination.
• Ghosting – which includes Contract Cheating (buying work from Essay Mills) and producing work using Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems (such as Chat GPT, Bard AI, Microsoft Bing AI).  This is presenting work as your own which has been produced wholly or in part by someone else and includes sourcing work on-line through AI systems. 
• Cheating – mainly the use of unauthorised material in examinations
• Other – any other form of academic misconduct not mentioned in the list above. 

* except where permitted e.g. Group work assignments. 

For full definitions of academic misconduct types and examples please refer to section 3 of the Policy. The definitions are not mutually exclusive – it is possible to be in breach of more than one type of academic misconduct in one assessment.