Date: 10 December 2025
Time: 14:00- 15:30
Location: Emeline Suite, Christabel Pankhurst Institute, Dover St, Manchester, M13 9PS or Online via Teams
Please join us for the first in what will be a regular seminar series investigating the variety of creative methods FBMH staff have been using when applying Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) to their teaching. Whether you are someone already applying GenAI in your work and are seeking new ideas or collaborations from colleagues engaged in similar efforts, or maybe you haven’t tried this out for yourself and wish to get some creative ideas from early adopters, these seminars aim to have something for all teaching staff. The meetings will be hybrid, so you can either join us in person at the Emmeline suite at the Pankhurst Institute, or on Teams, whichever works best for your diary.
Our first two speakers will be Dr Laura Green and Dr Richard Baker.
Dr Laura Green is a senior lecturer in Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, with a clinical background in palliative care and ethnographic research. She is a technology geek and enthusiast but also a realist, and patently aware of the environmental, cognitive and ethical implications of AI.
Laura will be discussing her work including her development of AI-driven simulated patients embedded in LAMS to create authentic branching consultations and “Socrative 500”, an AI agent providing specific unit feedback in a Socratic style of questioning and a similar system to help students develop reflective writing that aligns experiential learning to NMC professional standards of proficiency.
From Richard: 'I'm Richard Baker and I have been a lecturer here at the University of Manchester for the last 25+ years. Most of my teaching covers basic science elements on Audiology programmes, and particularly the anatomy, structure and function of the auditory sense organs and also the basic physics of sound and related acoustic principles. For the UG Audiology programme the entry requirement includes a minimum of one science A' level. For many of our students there is a distinct aversion to graphs and equations. Where possible I try to avoid the latter in my teaching but use graphs extensively. To help students understand some of the principles I have always tries to 'animate' graphs - starting with sliding one acetate over another, using formulae in excel to allow parameter adjustments to illustrate the impact of those changes. More recently I have used Python to produce animated gifs. However, more recently I have used generative AI to help write both python code to produce animations, but also to generate stand alone web pages that can be incorporated (or link to) in Canvas. The use of AI has (a) greatly speeded up the production of such teaching tools, and (b) allowed me to become more ambitious in what I try to do. I'm not an expert, but if I can do in an hour what would require me to learn another programming language then maybe others can go even further?'
We are also looking for FBMH staff who are interested in guesting in future lectures. If you are using GenAI in your teaching and would like to join one of our future panels, please contact jon.parkinson@manchester.ac.uk
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