Please register for this AI and Academic Integrity workshop on Monday 2nd September 2024 in the Eliot Room at The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2DB. Charles Larkin, Director of Research, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, is organising and chairing the day.
This future trends event will look at the disruptive effect of AI on teaching, learning and research in the higher education sector. It will be broken down into four broad thematic areas for discussion: Opportunities, Threats, Teaching & Research Integrity and Improving Access? over one day.
Opportunities looks at the ability of AI to enhance and stabilise the future of higher education institutions.
Threats addresses the potential disruptive effects on the business model of higher education due to AI.
Teaching & Research Integrity will address how existing approaches to teaching and learning and research will be disrupted and what structural changes are required in the sector to ensure quality and good practice.
Finally, in Improving Access?, the conference will look at the distributional effects of AI on higher education and how it will improve/disprove access to higher education in the advanced economies and between the global north and south.
The day will be divided into two parts, with Opportunities and Threats in the first part, closed by a panel discussion and Teaching & Research Integrity and Improving Access? in the second half of the day followed by a panel discussion. There will be a opening keynote address.
Confirmed Speakers
Jim Breslin, former Secretary General (Perm Sec) of the Irish Department of Further and Higher Education
Emma Carmel, Professor of Governance and Public Policy, Associate Dean (research), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath
Martin Curley, Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University and the Director of the Digital Health Ecosystem at the Innovation Value Institute
April Dawson, Associate Dean of Technology and Innovation, Professor of Law, North Carolina Central University School of Law, Author of Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity
Josh Freeman, Policy Manager, Higher Education Policy Institute
Senator Malcolm Byrne, Seanad Eireann
Ian White, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Bath
Register here
Registration is £44. The deadline for registration is 19th August although registrations may close earlier if maximum numbers are reached.
Schedule for the day
08:45 Arrival Tea & Coffee and Registration
09:20 Welcome & Opening Address by Charles Larkin, Director of Research, Institute for Policy Research
09:30 April Dawson, Associate Dean of Technology and Innovation, Professor of Law, North Carolina Central University School of Law
10:15 Martin Curley, Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University and the Director of the Digital Health Ecosystem at the Innovation Value Institute
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Jim Breslin, former Secretary General (Perm Sec) of the Irish Department of Further and Higher Education
11:45 Josh Freeman, Policy Manager, Higher Education Policy Institute
12:15 Panel discussion: Jim Breslin, Martin Curley. April Dawson, Josh Freeman
13:00 Lunch break, lunch provided
14:00 Emma Carmel, Professor of Governance and Public Policy, Associate Dean (research), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath
14:30 Ian White, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Bath
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Senator Malcolm Byrne, Seanad Eireann
16:00 Panel Discussion: Malcolm Byrne, Emma Carmel, Ian White
16:45 Closing by Charles Larkin, Director of Research, Institute for Policy Research
17:00 End
Speakers
April Dawson
April Dawson is the inaugural Associate Dean of Technology and Innovation and a Professor of Law at North Carolina Central University School of Law and oversees the operation of the NCCU Technology Law & Policy Center. She is the author of the book, Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity (Aspen 2023). Dawson teaches and has taught a wide range of law school classes, including Artificial Intelligence and the Law, AI and Legal Reasoning, and Legal Technology Equity & Leadership. Dawson has a degree in computer science and was a computer programmer before receiving her law degree cum laude from Howard University School of Law in 1994. Dawson is a member of the ABA Center for Innovation Governing Council, Chair of the North Carolina Bar Association Future of Law Committee, and a member of the Legal Aid of North Carolina Advisory Board. She is also a member of the North Carolina Governor’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice. Dawson also co-hosts the Legal Eagle Review radio show with her colleague, Irving Joyner, on WNCU 90.7 FM, in which weekly interviews shed light on law-related local, state, and national concerns.
Martin Curley
Martin Curley is Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University and Director of the Digital Health Ecosystem at the Innovation Value Institute at Maynooth University, Ireland. Most recently Martin was Chief Information Officer and Director of Digital Transformation for Ireland’s National Health Service (HSE) and previously was Senior Vice President at Mastercard and head of Global Digital Practice. Martin is chair of the UNGA Digital Health Symposium and has previously been Vice President, Senior Principal Engineer and Director of Intel Labs Europe as well as Global Director of IT Innovation at Intel Corporation.
He has held engineering management positions at Philips and General Electronic also. Martin has been identified as a top 10 global influential, inspiring and impactful health leader/educator by a number of international publications and was awarded European Chief Technology Officer of the year in 2015. He chaired the European Commission Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG) for seven years, is the creator of Open Innovation 2.0 and has served on multiple EU and European Advisory boards. He is author of eight books on Innovation, Digital and Entrepreneurship and has keynoted and led executive education across the world, from Boston to Beijing and Sydney to Sao Paolo. He was awarded Irish National Digital Leader of the Year award in 2024 and the world Public Sector Innovation award in 2020 from ICC/MTB. Most recently he was also senior advisor to Saskatchewan Health Authority in Canada and was recently appointed a senior advisor to Bearing Point.
Jim Breslin
Jim Breslin led Ireland’s newly established Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science as Secretary General from 2020-2023. Previously Secretary General of the Department of Health and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, he now advises leaders and boards on strategy and innovation to accelerate their business transitions.
Josh Freeman
Josh is Policy Manager at HEPI. Previously he worked as a Maths and Politics teacher in London on the Teach First programme. He has since completed a Master’s degree in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford. At HEPI his work has included research on the cost-of-living crisis, artificial intelligence, foundation year courses and student debating unions. Alongside this policy work, Josh is responsible for managing the HEPI blog.
His qualifications include: MPA (Mid-Career), Harvard Kennedy School; MSc (Econ), TCD; BA Economics & Politics, UCD; Stanford Executive Program at Graduate School of Business, Stanford University; Certificate in Business and Climate Change, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge and Diploma in Company Direction, Institute of Directors. He held a Policy Leader Fellowship at the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge.
Senator Malcolm Byrne
Malcolm Byrne has been a Senator since April, 2020 and serves as Fianna Fáil’s Spokesperson on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
From Gorey, Co. Wexford, he is a graduate in Law, Arbitration and Governance (UCD, QUB). He previously worked for Chambers Ireland, as the first Commercial Manager with my home.ie, as Chief Executive of Community Games, as Executive Director of Screen Producers Ireland and for twelve years as Head of Communications and Public Affairs with the Higher Education Authority.
A Councillor from 1999 to 2019, he also served as Chair of Wexford County Council. A former Vice-President of the National Youth Council of Ireland, Education Officer with the Union of Students in Ireland and Executive Member of the European Students’ Union, he was named in 2014 as one of the EU 40 Under 40 European Young Leaders.
He has a strong interest in issues relating to education, research, technology, the arts, foreign policy, youth participation, housing, planning and local government. He has completed 31 marathons.
Member, Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Sport, Arts, Media & Culture. Member, Seanad Committee on Brexit. Co-convenor, US Ireland Parliamentary Friendship Group. Co-Chair, Irish Chapter, InterParliamentary Alliance on China.
Emma Carmel
Emma Carmel is Professor of Governance and Public Policy at the University of Bath, where she is thematic lead on AI and Public Policy for the CDT on Accountable, Responsible and Transparent AI (ART-AI) at Bath. Prof Carmel is a political sociologist who researches the relationship between political economy, society and the state. Her current work examines the complex relationship between data, different forms of knowledge, and context in contemporary AI technologies, as part of a programme of work on the historical development of digital technologies and statehood. Her most recent book (with Regine Paul and Jennifer Cobbe) is Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence (Edward Elgar).
