GenAI in Academic Research: Tools, Ethics, and Good Practice. Session 2—Working with GenAI on questions and literature

The Faculty of Graduate Studies invites graduate students to participate in a multi-session workshop series titled GenAI in Academic Research: Tools, Ethics, and Good Practice, that helps graduate researchers thoughtfully integrate GenAI into their work.

Participants will explore how GenAI can support different stages of the research process, from idea generation, literature review, to data analysis and writing.

Participants will experiment with tools for working with scholarly literature and data.The series also invites participants to reflect on professional responsibilities, emerging institutional expectations, and the implications of GenAI use for students, supervisors, and reviewers.

The workshop sessions will be facilitated in Microsoft Teams by Dr. Eliana El Khoury, AU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Webinar Session 2–Working with GenAI on questions and literature

In this session, we will use GenAI as a thinking partner around research topics and readings. We will try structured ways of asking better questions, we will use GenAI to refine research problems, and we will experiment with tools that help us discover, filter, and summarize literature. Together, we will consider how bias and gaps can appear, and we will draft personal guidelines for how we want to use (and not use) GenAI when engaging with prior research.