GenAI in Academic Research: Tools, Ethics, and Good Practice. Session 4—GenAI at the dissertation stage

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 4–GenAI at the dissertation stage

In this final session, we will focus on AI use in high-stakes graduate work such as theses and dissertations. We will review emerging institutional expectations and policies, we will discuss how GenAI use should be disclosed and bounded in dissertation research, and we will consider the implications for students, supervisors, and examiners. Together, we will articulate what responsible GenAI use looks like at the dissertation stage in our own disciplines and at AU and Memorial University