AI, Authorship and Audiences: Finding Your Voice, or Lost in Translation?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a disruptive and transformative force in research culture. Its widespread use has prompted us to rethink how research is conducted, written, shared, and consumed. Digitally med iated forms of dissemination, changing expectations, and emerging career pathways are expanding the ways researchers can communicate their work beyond traditional academic publications. As researchers are increasingly encouraged to engage diverse audiences, partners and stakeholders, and to work in interdisciplinary ways, AI offers new possibilities for adapting and communicating research across different contexts and communication channels.
Beyond the productivity and efficiency it promises, however, the rise of AI has generated concerns about plagiarism, hallucinations, and the integrity of scholarship. It also raises broader questions about authorship, accountability, authenticity, intellectual ownership, and the nature of scholarly expertise itself. While AI may help researchers communicate more effectively and reach new audiences, its use also raises important questions about accuracy, nuance, and trust.
Who is this for?
This hands-on workshop invites early and mid-career researchers to explore how they communicate their work, whom, they communicate it to, and what might be gained, lost, simplified or transformed when AI becomes part of the research writing and communication process. Rather than positioning AI as simply either a solution or a threat, the session will focus on how researchers can use AI in ways that encourage curiosity, while critically examining the role it should play in their own writing and communication process.
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Thursday 3rd October
10:00 -12:00
The Wolfson Suite, The Library