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SUMMARY:REF: AI? A seminar with Richard Watermeyer (University of Bristol
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DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will present emerging findings from a study of
  how generative AI (GenAI) is impacting the UK's Research Excellence Fra
 mework (REF) 2029. By means of national consultation with 17 UK universi
 ties (with small-to-large REF returns)\, the REF:AI study has explored h
 ow generative AI is being currently used\, prospectively used\, and/or o
 therwise resisted in responding to the demands of the REF\, while also e
 lucidating perspectives on the application of GenAI by REF panels. Discu
 ssion will focus on the efficacy of GenAI tools as relates to the REF as
  a site of expert decision-making associated with significant\, and some
  argue\, unsustainable resource demands. It considers the future of the 
 REF as a technology of research governance infused with or substituted b
 y GenAI and thus by extension the trajectory of research assessment and 
 research itself. \n\nRichard Watermeyer is Professor of Higher Education
  and co-director of the Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHE
 T) at the University of Bristol. His research is predominantly concerned
  with sociological analyses of disruption and change impacting the organ
 isation and enactment of academic labour and governance of universities 
 and science. He is a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Higher Education Le
 adership and Policy Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong\; a
  Fellow of the Center for Organization Research and Design at Arizona St
 ate University\; and Associate of the Centre for Higher Education Educat
 ion Studies at the UCL Institute of Education. He is principal investiga
 tor for the Research England funded\, REF:AI project.\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A2.6\, Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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