Academic Integrity and Misconduct

Academic integrity is essential to conducting research, earning a credible degree, and maintaining trust and reputation. Your work must be your own, properly attributed, and honestly reported. As postgraduate taught students, you are expected to demonstrate the highest standards of integrity, honesty, rigour, and accountability in every aspect of your work - including code development, written and oral dissemination, and all forms of communication with supervisors, staff, peers, external partners, and the wider public.

Academic misconduct is taken very seriously and may lead to severe consequences, including failure of the module or termination of your degree programme. An academic misconduct investigation can be initiated at any time, even after graduation, if concerns about the authenticity or integrity of your work come to light.

Here, we define the IRP-specific rules and expectations in addition to the university-wide academic integrity and misconduct policies, such as

• Academic Misconduct Policy and Procedure

• Guidance on Academic Integrity in Examinations and Assessments

You are responsible for understanding and adhering to all of them. A lack of familiarity will not be accepted as a justification in cases of suspected academic misconduct. They are non-negotiable.

While you are encouraged to discuss these with your supervisors to better understand how to adhere to them in your projects, supervisors cannot override, modify, or make exceptions to these rules.

In addition to university-wide policies, the following IRP-specific academic integrity rules and expectations apply:

• Academic Integrity Declaration

• Plagiarism awareness course

• Regular commits to IRP repositories

• Engaging with Supervisors and Documenting Meetings