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A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.

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Textual overlap, stolen ideas, and Cambridge’s plagiarism problem · 11 posts

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Blog · 5 Jan 2025

My Name was Taken off the Paper !

One of the commonest queries to the 21 Group is about contested authorship. Politics around paper authorship is particularly an issue in STEM subjects where collaborations are the norm, less so in the humanities. Queries usually…

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Blog · 17 Nov 2024

Four Years — The Magdalen Connolly Case

Dr Magdalen Connolly started as a graduate student and went on to become a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Cambridge University’s Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. She completed a Humboldt Fellowship at Munich University…

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Blog · 18 Sep 2024

The Theft of Ideas from Young Researchers

The story of plagiarism at UK Universities is a familiar one. Senior scholars are protected, regardless of the consequences for junior scholars whose work is stolen. This is not a victimless crime. Real and lasting harm…

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