Sarah Eaton

Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD, is a professor and research chair at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada and an Honorary Professor, Deakin University, Australia.

Dr. Eaton is the Director of the Postplagiarism Research Lab, and she has received awards of excellence including the Tracey Bretag Academic Integrity Prize (2025), the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) Award for Outstanding Research (2022), and the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) Research and Scholarship Award (2020).

Dr. Eaton has written and presented extensively on academic integrity and ethics all over the world and is regularly invited as a media guest to talk about academic misconduct, fraud, and corruption.

Dr. Eaton is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Educational Integrity.

Her books include Plagiarism in Higher Education: Tackling Tough Topics in Academic Integrity, Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge (Eaton & Christensen Hughes, eds.), Contract Cheating in Higher Education: Global Perspectives on Theory, Practice, and Policy (Eaton, Curtis, Stoesz, Clare, Rundle, & Seeland, eds.), and Ethics and Integrity in Teacher Education (Eaton & Khan, eds.) and Fake Degrees and Fraudulent Credentials in Higher Education (Eaton, Carmichael, & Pethrick, eds.). She is also the editor-in-chief of the Second Handbook of Academic Integrity (2024).