• Interview about teacher training and generative AI in Times Education Supplement

• The impending GenAI driven automation of higher education

• What the efficiency agenda in UK universities will look like in practice

• 26% of 5-7 year olds in the UK own a smart phone

• The coming wave of automation in UK higher education

• The Deepfake Detection test

• How we integrate GAI into teaching will be as much determined by political economy as pedagogical purpose

• Bev Skeggs on being a head of department: “a layer of protection against idiocy”

• What does habitual use of conversational agents do to your reading and writing?

• Should other professional associations leave Twitter/X?

• Generative AI Beyond the Bubble: Looking Ahead to the 24/25 Academic Year

• In the near future academic copy editing will be AI-driven

• Conversational agents can be sponsors of literacy

• To evade AI detectors you literally just need to ask LLMs to avoid the statistical features which detectors rely on

• The privilege of escaping from the Twittering Machine

• Some thoughts on machine translation in higher education

• Will GenAI be seized upon as a short-term funding fix for UK higher education?

• AI Policy and Higher Education Under a New UK Government

• Generative AI and the Automated University

• 📍(Generative) AI and the automated university: June 24th, 9am BST

• Why you can’t use ChatGPT and Claude to answer a factual question

• Hegel’s account of the righteous violence of education

• Mapping the many discoures of learning

• The Many Maps of the University of Manchester Campus. June 7th + 8th

• Navigating the Misinformation Minefield: The Role of Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI

• If you want another reason to dislike Turnitin

• What would I do if I was in charge of generative AI in higher education?

• Ubiquity and multimodality is what will enable GAI to show up in everyone’s lifeworld

• A toolkit for reflective teaching practice

• Special issue: Social Media in Higher Education – What’s Happening?

• If we don’t approach GAI with reflexivity then education is doomed

• GK Chesterton’s Fence and the Problem of Automation

• The coming crisis in education research … and what we might do about it

• Pioneering Sustainable EdTech Design: Insights from the MA DTCE

• 💻 Advance Your Career in Digital Education with the MA Digital Technologies Communication and Education

• A growing number of 5 to 7 year olds in the UK are using social media

• Imagine being in lockdown and your country suffering a massive cyberattack

• Is this the first example of a university doing an online pivot in response to political protest?

• The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

• How long does it take to have a meaningful full group conversation?

• What does Generative Artificial Intelligence mean for the future of higher education? A podcast and webinar project

• Here are some examples I can find of academics misusing ChatGPT in published work

• What social infrastructure do we need to make the most of generative AI?

• Webinar: Pedagogies of (Generative) AI, April 11th 3pm-4pm BST

• Our new podcast on Generative AI in Higher Education

• The weird afterlives of precarious employments

• Two approaches to training in higher education

• Podcast: from social media to generative AI in higher education

• Are we deluding ourselves about GAI-proof assessment?

• Robophobia as a form of prejudice which stops academics working effectively within generative AI

• The GAI literacy divide increasingly opening up

• Positioning Manchester at the forefront of the Generative AI revolution in Education

• Videos of American police searching a library for obscene material

• Visualising the University of Manchester Campus

• 📍Open resource: Using generative AI during a PhD

• The cultural capital involved in applying for a PhD

• Digital-first scholarship

• 📍Exciting opportunity to join our team: 2 x permanent T&R lectureships at University of Manchester

• Investigating Staff Perspectives on Generative AI: using ChatGPT to produce diagrams

• What if Turnitin had pivoted towards AI assessment rather than AI detection?

• Generative AI and the legal principle that computer records must be presumed to be accurate

• The challenge of feral sociology

• How else could your time on social media be used?

• Generative AI beyond assessment: what could happen over the next few years?

• Why are we so bad at online meetings?

• What’s the point of online conferences where people don’t actually meet?

• Generative AI and the challenge for professionalism

• Disavowal as a scholarly habit

• Computational sociology of knowledge as a tool for redesigning the knowledge system

• How much are academics paid in different national systems?

• The Gish Gallop as an academic technique

• Online reading group: Margaret Archer’s Social Origins of Educational Systems

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• How to create a research agenda & develop your personal brand

• What I’m ultimately interested in

• The ability of ChatGPT to generate a fake dataset

• DragonBot and Shelly the Turtle: the robotic future of primary education

• Interview with Research Professional about the future of academic Twitter

• Four vague accelerationist hypotheses about scholarly publishing

• Digital education and conjunctural analysis

• ‘Promises Promises’: The OECD, Promissory Legitimacy and its Strategic Re-Negotiation of Education Futures – Nov 22nd, Manchester

• Video: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• What will the automated university look like?

• Generative AI in higher education: what comes after the assessment crisis? 

• Video: Building the post-pandemic university

• The bleak future of AI tutorials

• Webinar: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• The coming wave of document forensics about to hit the university: the weak signals of generative AI

• Machine translation in higher education

• Can academic projects keep up with the UX expectations of students?

• How to think contextually about educational technology

• Beyond ChatGPT: what next for generative AI in higher education

• Interrogating AI in education: when peeking inside the black box is not enough

• Incorporating ChatGPT into Moodle

• The looming crisis in higher education

• In defence of the lecture

• ChatGPT’s advice on examining student essays for evidence of generative AI

• What will generative AI do to the zone of proximal development?

• Building the Post-Pandemic University – 24th October, 2pm-3pm GMT

• Who does the thinking? The role of generative AI in higher education