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Upcoming talks and events

September 2025:

October 2025:

  • 1st: Panelist for discussion of Responsible AI at the National Centre for Research Methods Annual Lecture 2025.
  • 22nd: Talk on Generative AI and Higher Education at the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester.
  • 28th: Generative AI for Academics Webinar at the RAISE AI in HE SIG. Register here.

November 2025:

  • 14th: The Ethics of Generative AI In Higher Education. Fitchburg State University, USA.

December 2025:

  • 3rd-5th: A number of workshops and talks on Generative AI at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
  • 16th-18th: Panel at the GenAI & Creative Practices Conference at the University of Amsterdam.

January 2026:

March 2026:

Past events:

May 2025:

  • 28th: Critical Realism Discussion Group webinar – “Digital Technology and Human Reflexivity”

June 2025:

  • 4th: LSE Workshop on LLMs and Qualitative Research (Invited Speaker)
  • 6th: BSA’s “The Future of the Sociology of Education” event (Speaker)
  • 11th: Institute of Physics Scholarly Communication conference (Keynote)
  • 13th: Association of Learning Developer’s conference (Keynote)
  • 13th: MMU’s AI Literacy project launch (Keynote)
  • 19th: University of Manchester’s AI crisis event (Invited Speaker)
  • 20th: University of the West of Scotland’s Teaching & Learning Conference (Keynote)
  • 24th: University of Manchester’s Generative AI and EDI event (Invited Speaker)
  • 26th-27th: University of Nottingham’s Futures of Higher Education Workshop (Invited Participant)