Exploring the Impact of AI on Academic Research: Applications of AI in the Publishing Industry
3 July 2025
Welcome from the Chair
The release of ChatGPT 3 in late 2022 marked a step change in the impact and use of generative AI in the form of chatbots and other related applications. For better or worse, we all have to learn to live with these powerful and rapidly developing technologies.
In the academic world the main areas of concern are the impact of AI on teaching and learning, as well as on writing and publishing. The webinar will focus on the latter, offering an overview of the different technologies such as chatbots, Large Language Models, and Machine Learning. A range of questions will be addressed, including the following:
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What are the ethical considerations for authors using generative AI in their submissions?
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How do AI detection tools work, and how reliable are they in identifying AI-generated content?
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What are the potential risks of relying solely on AI detection tools for manuscript screening?
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How should authors disclose the use of generative AI in their submission?
Registration
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Event Chairs
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Leeds Beckett University, School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing
Professor Bryant has written extensively on qualitative research methods, being Senior Editor of The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (2007) and The SAGE Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory (2019); both co-edited with Kathy Charmaz. Also Grounded Theory and Grounded Theorizing (Oxford, 2017), The Varieties of Grounded Theory (SAGE, 2019), and ‘Continual Permutations of Misunderstanding: The Curious Incidents of the Grounded Theory Method’, Qualitative Inquiry, May, 2020. In 2020 he was one of the founding members of The Coalition for Grounded Theory, a small group of grounded theory experts who organized World Grounded Theory Day – 12-MARCH-2021 – an international webinar incorporating presentations covering the key varieties of grounded theory. (Details and access to the presentations can be found here). A conference on 'Grounded Theory Future' is now planned for September 2024. Other recent writings include Digital and Other Virtualities: Renegotiating the Image, co-edited with Griselda Pollock (IB Tauris, 2010); Liquid uncertainty, chaos and complexity: The gig economy and the open source movement, Thesis Eleven, FEB2020; A Conversation between Frank Land and Antony Bryant, Journal of Information Technology, June, 2020 Parts 1 & 2; 'What the Web has Wrought', Informatics 2020, 7(2), 15. As Editor-in-Chief of Informatics, he is leading a Special Topic concerned with AI chatbots.
Keynote Speakers
Leeds Beckett University, School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing
Professor Bryant has written extensively on qualitative research methods, being Senior Editor of The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (2007) and The SAGE Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory (2019); both co-edited with Kathy Charmaz. Also Grounded Theory and Grounded Theorizing (Oxford, 2017), The Varieties of Grounded Theory (SAGE, 2019), and ‘Continual Permutations of Misunderstanding: The Curious Incidents of the Grounded Theory Method’, Qualitative Inquiry, May, 2020. In 2020 he was one of the founding members of The Coalition for Grounded Theory, a small group of grounded theory experts who organized World Grounded Theory Day – 12-MARCH-2021 – an international webinar incorporating presentations covering the key varieties of grounded theory. (Details and access to the presentations can be found here). A conference on 'Grounded Theory Future' is now planned for September 2024. Other recent writings include Digital and Other Virtualities: Renegotiating the Image, co-edited with Griselda Pollock (IB Tauris, 2010); Liquid uncertainty, chaos and complexity: The gig economy and the open source movement, Thesis Eleven, FEB2020; A Conversation between Frank Land and Antony Bryant, Journal of Information Technology, June, 2020 Parts 1 & 2; 'What the Web has Wrought', Informatics 2020, 7(2), 15. As Editor-in-Chief of Informatics, he is leading a Special Topic concerned with AI chatbots.
Rebekah works as a JRS in the Manchester office. She will be introducing the current uses of AI.
MDPI
Program
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Programme and Content |
Speakers |
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1pm-1.10pm |
Introducing the webinar topic and each speaker |
Miss Megan Lucius
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1.10- 1.35pm |
Introduction to AI and MDPI’s guidelines on AI use |
Miss Rebekah Paget |
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1.35-2.05pm |
Academic Publishing in the age of AI |
Professor Antony Bryant |
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2.05-2.30pm |
Q&A |
Professor Antony Bryant |
