Presented by Dr Mark J.P. Kerrigan (Head of Digital Learning) and Dr Iain Cross (Associate Professor in Education Development).

The aim of this session is to explore AI and the current thoughts, practice, and applications in higher education and how tools and approaches can be used to support those researching in Higher Education. Specifically, it will be divided into three sessions whereby:

Part 1: Exploration of AI and current thinking in HE and research

Part 2: Hands-on workshop on how to construct ChatGPT prompts to support the creation of a piece of text.

Part 3: Hands-on workshop on using AI to support decision making in constructing a literature review dataset. 

This is a hands-on workshop with interactive activities. We will explore how to create ChatGPT prompts to support undertaking a literature review. We will also demonstrate how to use an AI tool (Rayyan) to support the creation of a literature dataset.

Schedule

Speaker bios

Dr Mark J.P. Kerrigan is a National Teaching Fellow and Principal Fellow of the HEA and works as the Head of Digital Learning for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. (LSHTM). Mark has professional interests in educational strategy and policy, inclusive leadership, curriculum design and delivery, assessment, digital literacy and mobile/technology-enriched learning.

Mark holds a PhD from Edinburgh University, is a published researcher and an experienced PhD supervisor. Before working at LSHTM, he was an Associate Professor in Learning & Teaching (Allied Health) at Anglia Ruskin University, Dean of Learning & Teaching at Plymouth College of Art. Prior, as the Director of Learning & Teaching and University Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Medical Science at Anglia Ruskin University.

Mark is a co-convenor for the Society of Research into Higher Education, Newer Researchers’ Network and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. He was a founding member and co-led the national Jisc-funded Change Agents Network and previously, co-created MapMyProgramme - an open-source tool to support the holistic design of assessment and in 2012 was awarded a prize from ALT-C/Google for his Google work.

Dr Iain Cross leads the Academic Professional Development team within the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Iain is responsible for LSHTM’s continuing professional development provision, and is the Programme Director for the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching. Prior to joining LSHTM, Iain was Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching at St Mary’s University, Twickenham.

He has a background in environmental studies; including a PhD on lake ecology and climate change from the University of Nottingham and BSc in Environmental Geography from UCL. His interests focus on how universities are responding to sustainability, teaching climate change, assessment and feedback, authentic learning and decolonising doctoral research.