Research culture thrives when every role is visible, valued, and understood. Yet communication across disciplines, job families, and hierarchies often breaks down.
This project explores the extent to which AI tools might help - or hinder - our attempts to navigate disciplinary, professional, and linguistic gaps in order to stengthen community and connections across the whole research ecosystem.
Welcome to The AI Commons!
Welcome to The AI Commons, a research culture project running from January to July 2026, funded by Research England through Warwick's Enhancing Research Culture Fund.
The project is intended to be curiosity-driven and community-informed, and there are several ways to get involved and contribute to the discussion, many involving vouchers for participants, including an online survey, 1-2-1 interviews, discussion groups, events and a creative competition.
To find out more and register your interest, please check out our participant sign-up formLink opens in a new window. To be kept informed about activities and relevant news, please join our Teams community of practise channel.Link opens in a new window
Thank you for your interest! Please help to support our work by sharing this with colleagues across Warwick's research ecosystem, including academics, professional service staff, PhD students and research technicians!
We invited colleagues from all sectors of the research ecosystem at Warwick to take part in a short survey exploring how language shapes communication across the University, including the challenges people experience and the strategies they use - such as AI tools for translation or rewriting - to navigate them.
The survey is now closed. Thank you so much to everyone who participated!
We are conducting in-depth conversations with colleagues from a broad cross-section of the University, gaining rich qualitative insights which will complement the data and comments collected through our survey.
Selected eligible interview participants will each receive a £15 Edenred shopping voucher for their time. Interviews will take approximately 30 minutes.
If you would like to take part please check out our participant sign-up form.Link opens in a new window
We are hosting a number of discussion groups and delivered an interactive event for research culture week. Link opens in a new windowTo find out about future events, join the Teams channel.Link opens in a new window
We are seeking participants for our creative competitionLink opens in a new window, which encourages individuals to express their ideas and experiences of our project themes in reflective and imaginative forms.
Selected eligible participants will each receive a digital shopping voucher for participating in these activities.
Your contributions will help us better understand linguistic diversity, digital practices, and perceptions of AI-generated communication across campus, and inform how we can support more inclusive and effective collaboration.
A report will be published summarising our findings and recommendations. Through our activity we plan to establish a community of practice around these themes which will continue these conversations beyond the project.
Jason Snow - Research & Impact Services (R&IS)
Dr Federica Coluzzi - Associate Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and R&IS
Dr Yanyan Li - Associate Fellow, IAS
