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Facilitated by: Dr Zhen Li who is one of the co-convenors of the Multilingual University Network, alongside Dr Ibrar Bhatt, Dr Sal Consoli and Dr Dylan Williams. For more details about the network and its activities, please click here.

Format

This is a hybrid event, hosted face-to-face at RM 206, Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong and online for remote participants.

• Face-to-face participants will engage live with each element, have opportunities for networking with presenters and fellow attendees.
• Remote participants will be able to engage with the speakers via Zoom chat function and will be prioritised in Q&A.

Overview

In a world where academia is increasingly interconnected and multilingual, understanding the role of generative AI in multilingual and multicultural research contexts is crucial for researchers everywhere. By bringing together experts from different regions and disciplines, this seminar aims to identify and address a range of issues for multilingual researchers with respect to AI, set out some ways of dealing with them, and provide valuable theoretical and conceptual insights for scholars working in diverse linguistic environments. The event hopes to foster a collaborative dialogue on how AI shapes and impacts multilingual researchers and knowledge production. This goes far beyond using AI tools to assist with academic work, such as improving academic English, to encompass their role in multilingual research processes (such as data analysis) and the broader work of global knowledge production.

This event will be a critically-focussed and interdisciplinary discussion of new perspectives and techniques to navigate the evolving landscape of academic research with AI.

This seminar is organsied by the Multilingual University Network of the Society for Research into Higher Education, with the support of the Language and Literacy Education Academic Unit and the Comparative Education Research Centre (University of Hong Kong).

Schedule

Speaker bios

 Ming Ming CHIU is Chair (Distinguished) Professor of Analytics and Diversity and Analytics\Assessment Research Center Director, The Education University of Hong Kong. A graduate of Columbia (BS, computer science), Harvard (EdM, interactive technology) and UC-Berkeley (PhD, education), he advises China’s Ministry of Education and Qatar’s Ministry of Education. He invented (a) statistical discourse analysis to model online and face-to-face conversations (best 50 learning science ideas –International Society of the Learning Sciences), (b) multilevel diffusion analysis to detect corruption in the music industry and how ideas/behaviors spread through populations, (c) artificial intelligence Statistician, and (d) online detection of sexual predators. His 98 grants (US$22 million) yielded 300 publications (208 journal articles; 17,000+ citations; #8 in Education in China, 2023), 22 keynote speeches, 5 television broadcasts, 17 radio broadcasts, and 190 news articles in 22 countries. He creates and applies automatic statistical analyses to Big Data. 

Liz Jackson is Professor and Assistant Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. Liz is the President of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong and a former Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory and a Fellow and Past President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. Liz has published broadly in philosophy of education, global studies in education, and citizenship education and has conducted research in North America, Africa, and Asia. Her single-authored books include Emotions: Philosophy of Education in Practice (Bloomsbury, 2024), Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong (Routledge, 2021), Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education (Routledge, 2019).

Benjamin Luke Moorhouse SFHEA is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. He has extensive experience as a teacher educator and primary school English-language teacher in Hong Kong. He is the recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Individual Teaching 2023 from Hong Kong Baptist University, the Early Career Teaching Award 2019 from the University of Hong Kong, and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. His research focuses on the experiences, beliefs, and professional learning of pre-service and in-service teachers, with a specific focus on English-language teachers. Benjamin’s research has appeared in international journals, including System, TESOL Quarterly, RELC Journal, and ELT Journal.