Sonja Bjelobaba

Director of the Centre. Researches academic integrity, research ethics and pedagogical development. Develops flexible and modular training on ethics and research integrity for new employees at Uppsala University.

Sonja Bjelobaba is Director of the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics (CRB) at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is a researcher in research ethics and project manager for research ethics courses at CRB, as well as Senior Lecturer in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian at the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University. From 2020 to 2026, she served as Vice-President of the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI). Between 2020 and 2023, she coordinated the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project BRIDGE. Her current research focuses on academic integrity, research ethics, and the impact of artificial intelligence on education and research.

Publications

Maintaining research integrity in the age of GenAI: an analysis of ethical challenges and recommendations to researchers

Bjelobaba, Sonja; Waddington, Lorna; Perkins, Mike; Foltynek, Tomas et al.

Part of International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2025
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Developing Resources for Supporting Ethical Publishing and Dissemination Activities

Glendinning, Irene; Das Sivasubramaniam, Shiva; Hamza, Muaawia Ahmed; Miri, Siavash et al.

Part of ETHICS AND INTEGRITY IN EDUCATION, PRACTICE, p. 63-75, 2025
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Transition from Academic Integrity to Research Integrity: The Use of Checklists in the Supervision of Master and Doctoral Students

Krásničan, Veronika; Gaižauskaitė, Inga; Bülow, William; Dlabolova, Dita Henek et al.

Part of Journal of Academic Ethics, p. 149-161, 2024
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Building a Multinational Transdisciplinary Integrity Project: Insights from the BRIDGE Project

Bjelobaba, Sonja; Gaižauskaitė, Inga

Part of Second Handbook of Academic Integrity, p. 1739-1750, Springer, 2024
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A Qualitative Multi-Methods Research Protocol: Applied Research Ethics in the Middle East North Africa Region

Makhoul, Jihad; El Ashkar, Catherine; Nakkash, Rima; Bjelobaba, Sonja

Part of International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2023
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Testing of detection tools for AI-generated text

Weber-Wulff, Debora; Anohina-Naumeca, Alla; Bjelobaba, Sonja; Foltýnek, Tomás et al.

Part of International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2023
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ENAI Recommendations on the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Foltynek, Tomas; Bjelobaba, Sonja; Glendinning, Irene; Khan, Zeenath Reza et al.

Part of International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2023
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Academic Integrity Outreach Efforts: Making Education Accessible and Inclusive

Khan, Zeenath Reza; Draper, Michael; Bjelobaba, Sonja; Razi, Salim et al.

Part of Academic Integrity: Broadening Practices, Technologies, and the Role of Students, p. 3-16, 2023
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Preparing Preservice Teachers to Teach Academic Integrity and Ethics

Bjelobaba, Sonja; Cronqvist, Marita

Part of Ethics and Integrity in Teacher Education, p. 43-54, Springer International Publishing, 2022
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Academic Integrity: Broadening Practices, Technologies, and the Role of Students: Proceedings from the European Conference on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism 2021

Bjelobaba, Sonja; Foltýnek, Tomáš; Glendinning, Irene; Krásničan, Veronika et al.

2022
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Guidelines for Research Ethics and Research Integrity in Citizen Science

Ozolinčiūtė, Eglė; Bülow, William; Bjelobaba, Sonja; Gaižauskaitė, Inga et al.

Part of Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2022
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Researching Academic Integrity: Designing Research to Help Participants Give Genuine Responses Using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

Gaižauskaitė, Inga; Glendinning, Irene; Bjelobaba, Sonja; Sivasubramaniam, Shiva D. et al.

Part of Academic Integrity: Broadening Practices, Technologies, and the Role of Students, p. 47-65, 2022
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Deterring cheating using a complex assessment design: A case study

Bjelobaba, Sonja

Part of The Literacy Trek. Journal of literacy and language studies, p. 55-77, 2021
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Initiating count down-gamification of academic integrity

Khan, Zeenath Reza; Dyer, Jarret; Bjelobaba, Sonja; Gomes, Sandra F. et al.

Part of International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2021
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Academic Integrity Teacher Training: Preventive Pedagogical Practices on the Course Level

Bjelobaba, Sonja

Part of Integrity in Education for Future Happiness, p. 9-18, Mendel University in Brno, 2020
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Contract Cheating in Serbia and in Sweden

Bjelobaba, Sonja

Part of Studies of Changing Societies, p. 68-92, 2019
Academic Integrity Skill Development amongst the Faculty at a Swedish University

Bjelobaba, Sonja

Part of Towards Consistency and Transparency in Academic Integrity, p. 131-146, Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2018
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Areas of expertise

Projects

BRIDGE

Teaching

Academic integrity
Publication Ethics
Research integrity
Research Ethics

PhD-supervision

Pontus Lindgren (Dep. of modern languages) main supervisor