ENAI Awards
ENAI awards people for significant, innovative or ground-breaking advancement towards academic integrity core values, goals and culture change in practice.
The ENAI awards recognize individuals and groups who have made outstanding contribution to the field of academic integrity through research, activism, leadership, and advocacy. By acknowledging those who uphold and advance its principles, ENAI seeks to promote ethical scholarship and inspire further commitment to integrity.
The ENAI awards are awarded annually and they are open to anyone from the academic community, the nominations may only be submitted by ENAI members and ENAI supporters.
2026 Nominations
The call for 2026 nominations will open soon! We assume to open it in February 2026.
The nominees will be honoured at the European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia 2026 in September 2026.
ENAI Awards Team
- Teddi Fishman - head of the committee (United States of America)
- Irene Glendinning - committee member (Coventry University, United Kingdom)
- Sonja Bjelobaba - committee member (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Dita Henek Dlabolová - contact person and support (ENAI, Czechia)
Contact: awards@academicintegrity.eu
ENAI Award Categories
ENAI Exemplary Research Award
The ENAI Exemplary Research Award is given to a researcher or a research group for significant, innovative or ground-breaking contributions in research related to academic integrity. Nominations to this award are not restricted to ENAI members, but only people affiliated with ENAI member institutions and ENAI individual supporters can nominate individuals or groups for this award.
ENAI Exemplary Activism Award
The ENAI Exemplary Activism Award is given to an individual or a group for significant, innovative or ground-breaking advancement towards academic integrity core values, goals, and/or culture change in practice. Nominations to this award are not restricted to ENAI members, but only people affiliated with ENAI member institutions and ENAI individual supporters can nominate individuals or groups for this award.
Tracy Bretag ENAI Memorial Award
The Tracey Bretag ENAI Memorial Award will be awarded to persons or groups who have made exemplary contributions to the understanding, advancement, and/or promotion of academic integrity by demonstrating and/or inspiring perseverance, bravery or courage, and inspiring others to do likewise. Dr. Bretag’s life and work were a study in
- perseverance: continued effort in the face of opposition;
- bravery: facing challenges and obstacles without fear, and
- courage: persistence in one’s endeavors despite trepidation or fear.
This award recognizes those who demonstrate these qualities and inspire it in others, through their own contributions to research and practical works in the field of academic integrity. Eligibility for this award will be evaluated in terms of the:
- Significance of the work—the degree to which the work advances or contributes to the cause of academic integrity, and it’s likelihood of spreading and or being replicated;
- Range of impact—the ways in which the work affects, engages, and/ or inspires others;
- The ways in which this work demonstrates and/or inspires perseverance, bravery and or/courage–challenges overcome;
Nominations to this award are not restricted to ENAI members/supporters, but ENAI members/supporters must endorse external nominations for this award.
ENAI Outstanding Member Award
The ENAI Outstanding Member award is given to a member or group for significant, innovative or ground-breaking contributions to the ENAI as an organization. Examples of outstanding contributions include:
- Contributions to exemplary research in the field in target ENAI focus areas
- Promoting or conducting Academic Integrity Activism that advances ENAI goals
- Innovation and leadership at ENAI member institutions
- Exemplary representations of ENAI to the public that increases awareness of ENAI goals
Nominations to this award must be of ENAI members and/or those associated with ENAI member institutions. Only ENAI members and individual supporters can nominate individuals or groups for this award.
ENAI Outstanding Student Award
ENAI Student Award (awarded to students at ENAI member institutions) who:
- Contribute to exemplary research in the field
- Promote or conduct outstanding Academic Integrity Activism
- Innovate and provide leadership at the student level
Nominations to this award are restricted to students at ENAI member institutions. ENAI members can nominate individuals or groups of students for this award.
Nomination and Awarding Process
Nomination procedure
The call for nominations is announced usually in the beginning of the given calendar year, and it is announced on the ENAI website, in the newsletter, and on social media, with nominations accepted until the deadline stated in the call.
Nominations for awards may be submitted by any individual from an ENAI member institution or by an ENAI supporter via the online nomination form. Nominations are usually submitted by a third party, self-nominations are not encouraged.
If a nomination is unsuccessful, we encourage the same individual or group to be nominated again next year.
The awards committee reserves the right to contact supporters and nominators to request additional information about the nominee or to clarify questions about the nominee.
Evaluation of nominations
The Awards committee reviews all the nominations and select recipient(s) based on individual merit according to the evidence provided. Awards are only given to truly exemplary nominees, and typically just one award per category is given annually, the exception is the student category. An award is not be given if there are no suitable candidates.
The deliberation process for deciding the awards is confidential and the decisions taken by the committee are non-negotiable.
Notification of awards
The recipients of the awards are announced at a ceremony during the ENAI annual conference. The ceremony is usually a part of the conference gala dinner and it is also broadcasted online, open to anyone. The winners are later announced also via ENAI channels (web, newsletter and social media).
ENAI Award Laureates
2025
- ENAI Exemplary Research Award: Dr. Ruth Baker-Gardner
- ENAI Exemplary Activism Award: Founders of the Asia–Middle East–Africa Conference on Academic and Research Integrity: Dr. Salim Razi; Dr. Zeenath Reza Khan; Dr. Shahid Soroya; Dr. Muaawia Hamza
- ENAI Outstanding Student Award:
- Maryam Salari
- Dr. Lilia Marcela Figueroa del Valle;
- Members of the ENAI Working Group Centre for Academic Integrity in the UAE: Neha Hemnani; Leon Regi John; Samara Zeenath Stephen; Nafisa Anjum; Obaya Benzeid; Sahil Khan; Ayoob Ahamed; Ariba Maqsood
- ENAI Outstanding Member Award: Veronika Krásničan
- Tracy Bretag ENAI Memorial Award: Dr. Irene Glendinning
2024
- Tomáš Foltýnek (The Tracey Bretag Award Memorial Award)
- Steph Allen (The ENAI Outstanding Activism Award)
- Shivadas Shivasubramaniam (The ENAI Outstanding Member Award)
- Carla Novelo (The ENAI Outstanding Student Award)
2023
- Thomas Lancaster (The Tracey Bretag Award Memorial Award)
- Martine Peters (The ENAI Exemplary Research Award)
- Artem Artyukhov (The ENAI Outstanding Activism Award)
- Salim Razi (The ENAI Outstanding Member Award)
- Beatriz Moya (The ENAI Outstanding Student Award)
2022
- Ukrainian National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (The Tracey Bretag Award Memorial Award)
- Sarah Elaine Eaton (The ENAI Exemplary Research Award)
- Lorna Waddington (The ENAI Outstanding Activism Award)
- Dita Henek Dlabolová (The ENAI Outstanding Member Award)
- Megan O’Connor (The ENAI Outstanding Student Award)
- César González-Lozano (The ENAI Outstanding Student Award)
- Pegi Pavletić (The ENAI Outstanding Student Award)
2021
- Zeenath Reza Khan (The ENAI Exemplary Research Award)
- Debora Weber-Wulff (The ENAI Exemplary Activism Award)
- Teddi Fishman (The Tracey Bretag ENAI Memorial Award)
- Sonja Bjelobaba (The ENAI Outstanding Member Award)
- Veronika Králiková (The ENAI Outstanding Student Award)
- UOWD Conference Organizing Committee (The ENAI Special Award for Pandemic Respons)
2020
- Irene Glendinning (ENAI Member Award)
- Stefan-Marius Deaconu (ENAI Student Award)
- Tracey Bretag (Lifetime Achievement Award)
2019
- Emilia ŞERCAN (ENAI Member Award)
ENAI Working Groups
All groups are open to ENAI members and supporters, as well as anyone else who wants to contribute to the group activities. Anyone who is interested in joining any of the working group, is invited to contact the head of the group.