Current Workshops

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We invite you to the AI in Teaching and Assessment Summit funded by the Data Science & AI Institute on the 9th June 2026 in LT03 in the Management School.

Teaching staff are very much on the front line when dealing with AI integrity issues. So far though, it seems institutions and even departments have wildly varying approaches to AI. Some might have a traffic light system for when students can use or not use AI, some have deep integration with technology companies and AI is embedded across their workflows. Others have neither and choose to ignore the integrity issues when grading AI written submissions. Staff members too have very polarising views on the use of AI. Moreover, less forward-looking or less resourced universities are simply leaving it to staff to experiment in the labyrinth of AI models available. Consistency therefore is clearly a problem and is only set to worsen through varying levels of institutional policy and provision. There is an urgent need for open discussion about how some departments are dealing with AI (or not). This workshop is a space for those of different faculties to share their experiences.

The event is only open to registered attendees, and spaces are limited, so please register Lunch will be provided.

Isobelle Clarke and Lee Francis

AI Summit: Trust and Truth
Date:?Tuesday 9th June
Time:?10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Venue: LT3

9:30 - 10:00 (Break out space)
Coffee on arrival. Poll/survey.

10:00 - 10:30
Welcome and introductions from hosts Lee (Marketing) and Issy (Forensic Linguistics).

1030-1045

Share results of poll. Audience discussion.

1045- 1130

Talk 1: Dr Andrew Hardie (Linguistics)

How LLMs work and the uses of Generative AI

11:30-12:15

Talk 2: Dr Ziad Elsahn (Strategy)

How AI is used in teaching a management simulation

12:15-12:45

Panel 1: Department policies, teaching experiences

Panellists: Dr Simone Corsi (Strategy), Dr Andrew Hardie, Dr Ziad Elsahn

12:45-13:30 (Breakout space)

Lunch (provided to registered attendees)

13:30-14:15

Talk 3: Anna Galindo (Marketing)

How AI is impacting integrity and pedagogy

14:15 to 15:00

Talk 4: Dr Elisavet Christou (OWT)

How students want to use AI in assignments

15:00- 15:20

Panel 2: The future role of assessment, integrity and universities in the age of AI

Panellists: Dr Kirsty Dunn (Psychology), Dr Beatriz Rodriguez Garcia (Marketing), Dr Elisavet Christou, Dr Huw Fearnall-Williams (OWT)

15:20- 15:50

Talk 5: Brian Green (ISS)

SAIL- a secure place to use AI without needing personal subscriptions.

15:50 to 16:00

Closing takeaways, and next steps.

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Welcome to the annual FACTOR Summer School, running 0930-1445 on both Thu 11th and Fri 12th June 2026.

Language, Speech, and AI: An Online Forensics Summer School

So, you know how you've been thinking over and over, "God I wish I could just spend two days immersed in nothing but language, crime, and artificial intelligence”…? Lucky for you, we have exactly what you've been looking for: tickets for our 2026 Forensic Linguistics and Speech Science Summer School have just gone on sale. What are the odds??

Better yet, this year we're going global by running it all online. And as if that wasn't enough, you will be pleased to know that we won't be trying to wedge eighteen hours of content into eight hour days.

We assume no prior knowledge, start and finish at commitment-friendly hours, work at a gentle pace, and provide lots of opportunities for interaction, Q&A, coffee breaks, and checking your phone. But what will we actually do?

This year’s particular theme will be protection, privacy, and proactive synthesis.

In different words, we’re looking at questions like: is it possible to protect our voices from malicious actors who might want to clone us whilst still being recognisable to people around us? And further along the scale, can AI keep our identities fully withheld in sensitive contexts such as when we’re giving anonymous tip-offs, providing evidence in risky criminal proceedings, or even working undercover? And how much of our linguistic output do we need to think about when attempting this? We’ll start the summer school with interactive experiments and bring you back the results by the end. What will those experiments be? Well, you’ll have to attend to find out more.

Note that if you attended the in-person event in 2025, to keep it inclusive and accessible, we recap some of the same basic concepts, but then we move into new territory.

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Note that last year, tickets sold out a few weeks before the event. (We knew it was going to be big but even we were surprised at how fast they disappeared.) All that to say, if you’ve been waiting for some sort of cosmic Bat Signal, here it is.