A senior academic is under investigation for allegedly plagiarising the dissertation of one of his students.
Dr Remco Polman, a 'practitioner psychologist', is facing a conduct and competence hearing at the Health Professionals Council (HPC) next week, over allegations that he plagiarised a dissertation by Jeannette Cohen. He denies the allegations.
Ms Cohen, 33, from Bushey, finished her Master's in sport and exercise science at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2002. She wrote a dissertation entitled Mood States and the Home Advantage in Professional Sport, for which she received a distinction.
In November 2007, an article on the same subject was published in the Journal of Sports Sciences, for which Dr Polman was named as lead author. Ms Cohen was also named, but she says that she came across the article by chance, realised there was an overlap with her dissertation and then complained.
