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Event Start July 2, 2025 9:30 am |
Event End July 2, 2025 12:00 pm |
Booking closes June 26, 2025 12:00 am |
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Location Online via Teams |
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Please note: the joining instructions for the event may come via the hosts for the event and will not always be available online. Please look out for the email/calendar appointment from the hosts nearer the time.
Programme for the morning:
| Time | Event |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Brew (BYOB) – networking – Mentimeter |
| 9:45 – 9:50 | Welcome |
| 9:55 – 10:10 | Heather Johnston and Bryony Parsons – Learning Developers at the University of Liverpool
Using relevant prompts is essential to be as efficient and sustainable as possible when using GAI tools. Our presentation will discuss the results of our latest research project in which we evaluated how students used prompts within different GAI tools to complete a variety of tasks, and then the extent to which they critically evaluated the outputs. We will also consider the impact of our KnowHow GAI tutorial on student prompt literacy to enhance efficiency when using GAI. |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Liz Mann – Digital Library Advisor at Leeds Beckett University
An overview of the practical use of GenAI at Leeds Beckett University from my perspective as an interdisciplinary member of staff. I will focus on three specific areas: web content enhancement, academic research, and knowledge sharing via academic papers, conference presentations, and blog posts. These areas of focus are all underpinned by engagement with prompt engineering, monitoring the changing landscape of AI and the evolution of some of its most prominent models, as well as a base level understanding of AI in relation to university policy and copyright. I will briefly explore how these help me to utilise GenAI in my role within the library, whilst highlighting some concerns that have arisen along the way. |
| 10:35 – 10:45 | Table talk – Mentimeter results |
| 10:50 – 10:55 | Break |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Discussion |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Chloe Bolsover, Susannah Diamond and Alexander Buchanan – Sheffield Hallam University
Our talk will cover: – The University’s stance on AI. – How the Library has responded from resource guide creation to designing workshops for students and staff. – What we have learned in terms of challenges and opportunities. – Our next steps. |
| 11:35 – 11:55 | Panel Discussion |
| 11:55 – 12:00 | Close |
Presenters
Heather Johnston and Bryony Parsons – Heather and Bryony are Learning Developers at the University of Liverpool. In their role they develop and deliver academic skills content for students across the university. They are particularly interested in student perceptions and confidence in using Generative Artificial Intelligence technologies and have conducted three research projects investigating this.
Liz Mann – Liz is a Digital Library Advisor at Leeds Beckett University, where they cover digitisation, kiosk maintenance and reporting, as well as a range of research services tasks, working towards REF 2029. They recently co-authored a paper on generative AI in the Working Papers Series ‘Meeting New Challenges in Education’ published by Nottingham Institute of Education.
Chloe Bolsover – Chloe is a Learning and Teaching Librarian (Finance, Accounting and Business Systems, International Business, Languages, Law, Criminology and Public Services) As part of her role, Chloe develops and delivers training for information literacy, referencing and using reference management systems. She has been involved with developing resources and workshops for Generative AI since early 2024. Chloe has worked in Higher Education for over 5 years and has recently achieved her fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
Panellists
Andy Holgate – Andy is a Library Digital Skills Developer and librarian with over thirty years of experience in digital learning platforms, and a particular interest in LinkedIn Learning and how it can utilised in the Higher Education sector. Andy also has a keen interest in AI developments and how it is changing the roles of librarians and information literacy training.
Zoe Johnson – Zoë is a subject librarian at the University of Huddersfield, supporting the Schools of Applied Sciences and Computing & Engineering (with diverse subjects ranging from Optometry to Artificial Intelligence!). She has gained her PGCE HE and HEA Fellowship during her time at Huddersfield and is currently researching the perceived gap between students and academics’ expectations of reading. Zoë is keen to cultivate curiosity as core to information literacy training.
Kat Molesworth – Kat has been an academic skills advisor at Edge Hill University’s Manchester St James’ campus since 2018, supporting students with their writing, thinking and information skills. Prior to that she studied, researched and taught in the Classics and Ancient History department at the University of Manchester, and is especially interested in what the use of AI in learning means for critical thinking.
Adam Duffield – Adam is a Subject Librarian for the School of Nursing at University of Central Lancashire. Adam offers a broad spectrum of support for student’s research strategies. Apropos. As part of his MA in Library and Information Management Adam covered how the burgeoning field of A.I. is (and would continue to) affect the Academic Library field. This has transferred to his current role, where he runs two separate sessions on “Ethics and A.I. in Research” and “Fake News”. It is important we find the line between its dangers and how to take advantage of A.I. to enhance Information Literacy