FBMH GenAI in Teaching Seminar Series
| Dates: | 17 November 2026 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |
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| Who is it for: | University staff |
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Please come and join us Tuesday November 17th @ 2pm in person in the Emmeline Suite at the Pankhurst Institute, or virtually via Teams, for the next in our series showcasing the creative methods FBMH staff have been applying Generative AI to their teaching. For our November talk we look forward to welcoming:
Dr Grazyna Lipowska-Bhalla: Senior Lecturer in Cancer Biology, Programme Director for the MSc Molecular Pathology of Cancer, Assessment Lead in the School of Medical Sciences. Her talk will explore how GenAI can be meaningfully embedded within authentic assessment to move students beyond passive prompting towards critical, discipline-informed engagement. She will demonstrate how GenAI-supported assessment can enhance authenticity, make student thinking more visible, and develop critical AI literacy alongside disciplinary understanding. The talk will argue that GenAI can support rather than replace learning by creating opportunities for students to practise the judgement, reasoning and responsibility increasingly required in AI-mediated professional contexts.
Dr Cesare Giulio Ardito: Senior Lecturer, department of Mathematics: His scholarship interests include the use of artificial intelligence in mathematics education, particularly its implications for teaching, learning and assessment. He has experimented with integrating generative AI into teaching and assessment practices and has published work reflecting on these experiences. Generative AI presents opportunities to improve teaching and learning, but it puts into question the very skills we are trying to develop. Where do we draw the line between using AI to support learning and using it to bypass learning? Drawing on my experiences of experimenting with AI in mathematics teaching and assessment, I will explore this very thin line, discuss what has worked (and what hasn't), and reflect on how we might make more informed decisions in these uncertain times.
Details: In person at the Emmeline Suite @ The Pankhurst Institute or via Teams link
Join: Microsoft Teams meeting https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3184796109669881?p=7rBib6yxqMdGDmZMu7
Meeting ID: 318 479 610 966 988 1 Passcode: Dp6xX2Zg
For any further information regarding this, or future events, please contact jon.parkinson@manchester.ac.uk. We are also very keen to speak to teaching staff interested in showcasing their use of GenAI for future talks.
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Emmeline Suite
Christabel Pankhurst Building
