Call for Papers: Generative AI in HE Academic Practices – Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches
The Academic Practice network is inviting paper contributions for a roundtable event focusing on disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches on using Generative AI.
Since the introduction of ChatGPT in 2021, policies, guidelines and practices on using AI in HE have developed rapidly with the growing numbers of students and staff using AI in learning and academic work. In this third series of AI and AP, we want to focus on how AI has been perceived, used, evaluated and regulated by disciplines and in interdisciplinary collaborations. We are particularly interested in papers that examine the unique challenges, ethical considerations, and innovations presented by AI and created for using AI from both disciplinary-specific and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Submission Guidelines:
We welcome philosophical, theoretical, empirical, and practice-based papers.
Please submit the title and an abstract (350-500 words including references).
Submission Deadline: 17th January 2026
Roundtable Event Date: 17th March 2026
Accepted papers will be presented at the roundtable event. We will invite contributors to present at follow up online seminars to the wider SRHE membership.
Please submit your extended abstract to: vanessa.cui@bcu.ac.uk and r.davies20@herts.ac.uk
Convenors
Dr. Richard Davies, University of Hertfordshire
Email: r.davies20@herts.ac.uk
Dr Vanessa Cui, Birmingham City University
Email: vanessa.cui@bcu.ac.uk
There are multiple representations of academic practice; differences in interpretation, understanding and delivery between higher education institutions nationally and between nations and cultures internationally. However, globally, there are commonalities, shared notions of what makes academic practice distinct and how good academic practice might be explored and defined.
The SRHE Academic Practice Network seeks to reflect on the (re)negotiations and enactments of values, identities and epistemologies that is higher education, particularly the responses to the dilemmas that current broader cultural and political patterns call forth – responses that make HE what it is at any given point in time and place.
This network welcomes all participants in HE in any role, whether student, teacher, researcher, manager (etc) in its enquiry into practice and its demanding environments, especially an awareness of what informs, legitimises and contests judgment and action.
Academic practice is not ‘owned’ by any one group or discipline and this SRHE Network especially aims to connect with HE practitioners and researchers who have — successfully or unsuccessfully — crossed fields or contexts, are interested in HE as a distinctive semi-fluid institution (or culture) and have a range of critically analysable perspectives to offer.
We aspire to broaden the traditional academic practice community and vocabulary, to extend the existing recognisable ‘academic practice’ world to new and different communities, priorities and trajectories.