Associate Professor Christine Slade

Associate Professor Christine Slade's primary areas of expertise are assessment, academic integrity, and artificial intelligence (AI) in education and she contributes to UQ’s strategic priorities in these areas. Her work particularly focuses on fostering trustworthy assessment environments, advancing integrity as a shared institutional culture, and supporting the responsible and ethical use of AI in teaching and learning.

Christine is recognised for her outstanding contributions to assessment and academic integrity. In 2023 she was awarded an Australian Award for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for her work. She is also a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK, awarded for sustained strategic impact and thought leadership in teaching and learning at international and institutional levels.

Over the past three years, Christine has been a senior researcher on a multi-university project exploring Student Perspectives of AI, contributing to sector-wide understanding of how students engage with and make sense of AI in their learning.

Christine contributes to national and international academic integrity initiatives, including the TEQSA-funded workshops and resources. In 2026 she was a member of a small expert team revising the TEQSA Academic Integrity Toolkit. In August 2023, she was an invited assessment expert at the TEQSA commissioned Assessment Reform in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Forum which developed principles and propositions to support the sector. This team's work received the Studiosity Tracey Bretag Academic Integrity Prize.

Christine also supports schools in Queensland to promote academic integrity and was an advisor on the development of the Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Schools. 

Further information about Christine’s work can be found at https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/14189