AI Toolkit for Social Sciences and the Arts
AI Toolkit for Social Sciences and the Arts
Staff Team
Lead - Fiona Wallace
Dr Leela Cejnar, Jo Hart, Dr Mark Pulsford, Dr Rebecca Stone, Maria Walker and Dr Isleide Zissimos
Year 2024-2025
Summary
This project will create a toolkit designed for the Arts and Social Sciences Faculties through a website that both curates and advances AI-related pedagogical practices specific to these faculties. Developed in partnership with staff and students, the toolkit will provide accessible resources on teaching and learning, assessments, and student guidance, enhancing students’ AI literacy and employability skills. Critically viewed through an Arts and Social Sciences lens, it will explore both the challenges and opportunities of generative AI, equipping students and staff to engage with it judiciously. The website is designed for continuous updates and contributions, ensuring its relevance over time.
Invitation to Participate: AI Toolkit for Social Sciences and the Arts Round Table – 18th March, 14:00–16:00
We invite you to join a round table discussion to help shape an AI Toolkit for the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences. Supported by the Education Fund (WIHEA & IATL), this project will curate and develop AI-related pedagogical practices tailored to our disciplines. No prior AI expertise is needed—we welcome a range of perspectives and experiences.
About the AI Toolkit
· Provides links to existing resources and generates new content
· Critically explores AI’s challenges and opportunities through an Arts and Social Sciences lens
· Developed with staff and students, evolving over time with contributions
What’s involved?
· Round table discussion: Tuesday 18th March, 2–4pm (in-person, refreshments provided from 13:30)
· 12 colleagues from both faculties
· Small breakout discussions on key AI themes, followed by group feedback
· Discussion topics provided in advance
· Ethics-approved, confidential participation
Why take part?
· Contribute to a cross-faculty resource supporting AI literacy and employability
· Help shape practical tools tailored to Arts and Social Sciences If you’re interested, please complete this short MS Form AI Toolkit Register Your Interest and we will then send a Teams invite with further details.
We look forward to your participation!
For more information please see the following documents:
Roundtable Participation information leaflet
Staff and faculty submission Participation information leaflet
Bio's
Fiona Wallace
Fiona Wallace is an Associate Professor (T-Focused), Director of Education for Warwick Foundation Studies, and Deputy Chair (UG) of the Faculty of Social Sciences Education Committee. She joined Warwick in 2023 from UCL where she was Head of Pre-sessional Programmes. She has extensive experience in teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) to international students from pre-undergraduate to postgraduate level and of designing and leading bespoke multimodal programmes to equip international students to succeed in their destination departments. Her scholarship interests include the impact of disruptive technologies on teaching and learning, how we respond to best serve students, and how we exploit synergies between AI and inclusive education pedagogies.
Dr Leela Cejnar
Dr Leela Cejnar is an Associate Professor at the Warwick Business School (WBS), University of Warwick, where she teaches in the undergraduate business law program.
Leela has also held academic positions in Australia and her professional background includes twenty years in legal practice, also in Australia. She has previously researched and published in the area of competition and consumer law. Her research now focuses on the scholarship of learning and teaching in legal education.
Leela is a Senior Fellow of the UK's Higher Education Academy.
Dr Isleide Zissimos
Dr Isleide Zissimos is an Assistant Professor (T-Focused) in the Department of Economics at Warwick. She specialises in interdisciplinary economics teaching and has taught undergraduate programmes in Brazil, the United States, and the United Kingdom since 2005. She is currently the PPE Director of Student Experience and Progression and the Director of New Undergraduate Degrees Development for Economics. Her background is in Economic Development and Political Economy. Recently, she has been researching the link between technology and creative output, focusing on how artificial intelligence affects the quality of work.
Dr Mark Pulsford
Dr Mark Pulsford (Associate Professor, SFHEA, WIHEA Fellow) joined Warwick in January 2019 and is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Education Studies within the School of Education, Learning, and Communication Sciences (SELCS). He is also Faculty Senior Tutor for the Social Sciences, working within the Dean of Students Office. Mark has previously taught on education programmes at the University of Sheffield and De Montfort University. After a first career in marketing research, he worked as a primary school teacher in London and Leicester before his university roles. Mark’s work focuses broadly on issues of inclusion in education, student support and academic welfare, underpinned by collaboration with students. He recently launched the University’s Disabled Student Champions Network on behalf of the Dean of Students Office.
Jo Hart
Jo Hart joined Warwick in 2013 and is currently the Business Development and Projects Delivery Manager for Warwick Foundation Studies. Her team create and develop new programmes and expand existing provision while managing a number of projects for the department all with the aim of enhancing our offer and experience for our students and staff across the wide portfolio of international activities. Jo has 25 years of experience in the Higher Education sector in marketing, recruitment, admissions, student experience, projects and business development. Jo has professional qualifications in Marketing and Project Management (CIM, Prince2 and MSP).