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.

Access the Toolkit here

Launch Event

AI Toolkit for the Social Sciences and the Arts – Launch Event

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of our AI Toolkit on

Wednesday 9th July from 14:00-16:30 in the

Humanities Building room H0.03.

You’ll have the opportunity to feedback on the website, and we’ll be sharing ideas for next steps.

Light refreshments available.

Please use the following link to sign up so we have an idea of numbers.

This is a QR code for registration to the launch event

For Staff

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

For Students

Invitation to Join AI Toolkit Round Table – 12th March from 14:00-16:00 (£20 EdenRed Voucher Provided)

We are developing an AI Toolkit for the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences and are looking for student voices to help shape its student-focused content. You don’t need to be an AI expert—we welcome a range of perspectives and experiences.

About the AI Toolkit

· A student-friendly website curating and creating AI-related resources

· Focused on the opportunities and challenges of generative AI in Arts & Social Sciences

· Designed with continuous updates and student input

What’s involved?

· Round table discussion: Wednesday 12 March, 14:00–16:00 (in-person, refreshments provided from 13:30)

· 12 students from across both faculties

· Small breakout discussions on key AI themes, facilitated by student hosts

· Discussion topics provided in advance

· Ethics-approved, confidential participation

Why take part?

· Share how you want to use AI and what support students need

· Help shape a practical, student-focused AI resource

· Join a community of students and staff working to make AI more useful in your studies

· £20 EdenRed gift voucher for attending the round table.

If you’re interested, please complete this short MS Form. We’ll then send a Teams invite with further details.

We look forward to your participation!

For more information please see the following documents:

Roundtable Student facilitator Participation information leaflet

Student reviewer participation information leaflet

Building Content

Invitation to Contribute Content

We held insightful student and staff roundtables during April to find out what content Arts and Social Science Faculty members would like to see in their AI Toolkit.

The themes which emerged are detailed in the table below:

Broad Themes	Suggested sub-themes included but were not limited to:
Academic Integrity Policies	Links to available policies and guidance by department.
Teaching, Learning and Study	Learning: Improving productivity, what it means to be ‘AI literate’
Teaching, Learning and Study	Teaching: generating educational resources, lecture planning, generating ILOs, enhancing student engagement and interaction, academic integrity and intellectual property.
Things to be aware of in teaching and learning	Barriers to learning, AI dependency, relationship between of AI and critical thinking, problem solving, engagement, inaccuracies in AI generated content, limitations in a multilingual context.
Assessments	Diverse assessment formats, formats for incorporating AI into assessments.
Employability Focus	Drafting CVs and cover letters and retaining authenticity. Recruitment and the workplace, student devised assessments, marking criteria, marking and feedback.
Ethical Questions and Debates	Impact on the climate, Big Data /Privacy /Deep fake /post truth, creating original content, AI and the nature of (human) creativity.

We welcome links to existing content created by Warwick students and staff and/or new content on these themes in a variety of formats ,including, short videos (3-7 minutes), a podcast(series), blogs, and guides. For new content, please see the excellent guidance on creating videos and podcasts by the Digital Learning team.

If you are interested in creating new content, please read the relevant Participant Information Leaflet. Students will receive a £20 Eden Red gift voucher for each contribution.

Student PILs

Staff PILs

Please complete the relevant MS Form by no later than Friday 16th May

Students

Staff

We will get back to you within a week and send you details of where to upload your draft content. The deadline for completed content is Friday 13th June.

AI Toolkit

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).

Dr Rebecca Stone

Rebecca Stone is Associate Professor of US History and Director of Student Experience (His/Pol). Rebecca joined the History Department at Warwick from the University of Birmingham in 2015. During this time she has also taught in the Departments of Global Sustainable Development and Liberal Arts and worked for the Faculty of Arts. She has extensive experience of interdisciplinary education and has focused on interdisciplinary employability for several years. Her pedagogical research also focuses on digital pedagogies and Rebecca co-leads the Warwick Digital Pedagogy Library. Her subject specialism focuses on the modern American Presidency. She is currently writing a book that examines the relationship between the early Cold War and the US higher education system.