AI Collaborations Series II events
Reflections on the use of generative artificial intelligence in higher education, supported by ARU's Centre for Innovation in Higher Education.
- 19 February - 4 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
- Price: Free
Empowering early career researchers: AI tools for interview success
Dr Susan Qu, University of Cambridge, will introduce and discuss a positive and inclusive approach to using generative artificial intelligence in early career researchers.
- 19 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
- Price: Free
Synthesising visions: Ethical and aesthetic practices for audio-visual research in the era of AI
Dr Dario Llinares, Consultant and Cinematologist, will explore how audio-visual creative practices can engage with technological innovations to analyse, critique, and potentially redefine both the technology itself and its broader impacts.
- 5 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
- Price: Free
Being the writing human in the Generative AI loop
Dr Sarah Gibson Yates, Anglia Ruskin University, will explore how creative writers can approach creative writing with artificial intelligence by adopting a critical and playful mindset of experimentation alongside traditional practice skills.
- 19 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
- Price: Free
Using Generative AI in the classroom
Dr Tadhg Blommerde, Northumbria University, will provide information about assessment design in the age of GenAI and real-world examples of how this technology can improve teaching and student outcomes.
- 9 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
- Price: Free
Inquiry graphics: multimodal learning and the use of Generative AI
Dr Tünde Varga-Atkins (University of Liverpool), Dr Natasa Lackovic (Lancaster University) and Dr Run Wen (XJTLU, China) will consider how Generative AI is being used in multimodal learning in higher education contexts.
- 30 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
- Price: Free
How to find the soul of a sailor: AI art and memory
Visual Artist Kasia Molga will discuss her deeply personal and innovative project that fuses the past, present, and future through the lens of artificial intelligence and memory.
- 7 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
- Price: Free
Responsible AI in creative practices: Insights from the CREA-TEC Fellowship
Dr Caterina Moruzzi, University of Edinburgh, will share preliminary findings from her CREA-TEC research fellowship, part of the AHRC-funded Bridging Responsible AI Divides UK-Wide programme, highlighting the transformative impact of AI on creative practices.
- 21 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
- Price: Free
Degenerative AI and the management of Higher Education: from the matrix of metrics to Marx
Dr Vassilis Galanos, University of Edinburgh, will offer reflections from more than two years of closely engaging with the introduction of generative AI in the classroom and the management of Higher Education.
- 4 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
- Price: Free