How to Use Gen AI: A Beginner’s Workshop for Researchers

Introduction to Generative AI for Researchers: Tools, Prompts, and Ethical Use

Title: Introduction to Generative AI for Researchers: Tools, Prompts, and Ethical Use

Date: 4^th June 2025

Time: 11:30–13:30 (BST)

Location: Online (MS Teams or Zoom)

This two-hour, workshop is designed for researchers who are new to generative AI and want to explore how it can support their research practice. Participants will be introduced to widely used tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Co-Pilot, as well as research-specific platforms like Elicit, SciSpace, and Research Rabbit.

The session will focus on practical exploration and skill-building.

You’ll learn how to:

Use generative AI to support tasks like literature reviews, summarisation, and ideation
Apply basic prompt engineering techniques for research-specific needs
Critically reflect on the ethical, political, and epistemological implications of using AI in academic work

The workshop requires no prior experience with AI tools, and all tools introduced are freely available.

How this session fits within the NEXUS Project

This session is part of the wider NEXUS Project Capacity Building workshops.The network aims to strengthen Warwick’s interdisciplinary capacity to shape equitable and just climate policy, with a particular focus on knowledge exchange, capacity building, and critical engagement with emerging technologies and global power structures.

This workshop directly supports the project’s third pillar:

Addressing gaps in data literacy and the ethical use of AI for policy-relevant research.

As generative AI becomes increasingly embedded in global climate governance and decision-making, researchers across disciplines must be equipped not only with technical understanding, but also with the critical tools to interrogate its implications. This workshop helps democratise access to generative AI, ensuring researchers; especially those from humanities and the social sciences can engage confidently, creatively, and responsibly.

Importantly, this event complements other critical events within the NEXUS programme, including:

Together, these events offer a layered, interdisciplinary approach to AI in research and policy; spanning from practical training to theoretical critique, and from institutional exclusion to collective reimagining.

This GenAI session thus acts as both a technical introduction and anentry point into wider conversationson AI, power, and justice that are foundational to the NEXUS network and Warwick’s contribution to climate policy ahead of COP30 and beyond.

The course will take place on Teams or Zoom on the 4th June from 11:30 - 13:30.

Pre-requisites

This is an entry-level course, no previous knowledge and no prior reading is required.

The session will only use free GenAI tools.

Spaces are limited, and in the event of oversubscription, priority will be given to University of Warwick researchers. We will contact you to confirm your place.

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How to Use Gen AI: A Beginner’s Workshop for Researchers

Spaces are limited, and in the event of oversubscription, priority will be given to University of Warwick researchers. We will contact you to confirm your place.

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