Course Overview

A forward-looking workshop exploring AI tools (including ChatGPT and specialized agents like Deep Research) to enhance research workflows—from literature discovery to content drafting and ethical usage.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify core AI tools for research support: ChatGPT, Deep Research, Elicit, Connected Papers, Consensus, Iris.ai, Scite, etc.
• Use AI to streamline literature reviews, summarizations, and semantic searches
• Employ AI for generating drafts, structured outlines, abstracts, and idea synthesis
• Navigate and apply AI tools like Deep Research to autonomously gather and cite research insights
• Understand the vital role of effective prompt engineering in maximizing AI output quality
• Assess the limitations of AI tools—lack of access to peer-reviewed sources, hallucination risks, bias, and data privacy concerns
• Practice ethical AI use, including transparency of AI-assisted content in academic work
• Do Thematic Analysis and data visualisations
• Prepare Google form for survey and create MCQ questions, collect feedback etc.
• Leverage AI tools to enhance research tasks—literature mapping, drafting, synthesis, referencing, and ideation—while maintaining academic rigor and creative thinking

Tools & Resources

• AI research assistants: ChatGPT, Deep Research, Claude,
• Literature-mapping tools: Research Rabbit, Connected Papers,
• Summarization & semantic tools: Consensus, Elicit, Iris.ai, Scite
• Text to image and PPT: DALL·E 3,Mid journey, Adobe Firefly with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Gamma, Copilot etc.