Role
Mark Sergeant is a Principal Lecturer in the Learning and Teaching, Quality, and Student Experience Team in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University (NTU).
Mark is the Academic Integrity Coordinator for the School of Social Sciences at NTU, overseeing the implementation of Academic Integrity policies and procedures.
Mark received the NTU Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2019 and the NTU Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2023.
Research areas
Mark's primary research interests are:
- Academic Integrity (especially the psychological predictors of plagiarism and other forms of misconduct among students)
- Teaching and learning techniques (especially effective communication strategies and statistics anxiety)
- The psychology of sexual behaviour (especially the psychobiology of homosexuality, interpersonal attraction, and the study of sexual aggression)
- The psychology of human olfactory function (sense of smell)
Mark's research supervision includes projects primarily related to Academic Integrity and teaching and learning. The main focus of this work involves online surveys, psychometric studies and qualitative research projects.
External activity
- Committee member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Academic Researchers and Teachers in Psychology (DART-P).
- Committee member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Education and Training Board.
- Delivered events on Academic Integrity for Inside Government series and Turnitin.
- Completion of a British Science Association (BSA) Media Fellowship with placements at the Science Media Centre and Daily Mirror.
Press expertise
Academic Integrity