Working with GenAI on questions and literature
GenAI in Academic Research: Tools, Ethics, and Good Practice—a 4-part workshop series for graduate students
Graduate students from both Memorial University and Athabasca University are invited to participate in an updated multi-session workshop series that helps graduate researchers thoughtfully integrate GenAI into their work.
Explore how GenAI can support different stages of the research process, from idea generation, literature review, to data analysis and writing, and experiment with tools for working with scholarly literature and data. Participants are invited to reflect on professional responsibilities, emerging institutional expectations, and the implications of GenAI use for students, supervisors, and reviewers.
The workshop sessions are hosted by AU's Faculty of Graduate Studies and will be facilitated in Microsoft Teams by Dr. Eliana El Khoury, AU Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.
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.
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