03.06.26: Using AI in Everyday Research Practice Responsibly - AUSGEBUCHT

Responsible use, governance and reflection for early career researchers

This focus workshop for PhD students and postdocs will support early career researchers to use AI in their everyday research practice in an effective and responsible manner.

Workshop language: English

Date: 03.06.2026, 8:30 - 16:00 (incl. lunch break)

Trainer: Dr. Johanna Scheel

Location: online via Zoom

Contents

Following the workshop, participants will

• have developed a sound understanding of how generative AI and other AI systems (e.g. for literature reviews) work, and assess their opportunities, limitations and risks in the context of research and the doctoral/early-career phase
• be familiar with the legal and organisational framework governing the use of AI (including data protection, data flow, the EU AI Regulation and relevant guidelines from funding organisations) and reflect on its significance for their own day-to-day research
• recognise the potential of AI-supported tools for typical tasks in the day-to-day work of doctoral students and early-career researchers (e.g. literature research, text work, structuring arguments, data preparation/analysis and self-management tasks) and use them in a targeted manner
• understand typical scenarios for the use of AI in their own research or qualification phase, reflect on them critically and evaluate them in terms of academic integrity, transparency and traceability
• work practically with generative AI and apply, further develop and document basic prompting techniques in their own use cases
• build transferable skills to design their own AI workflows in a responsible, efficient and legally compliant manner and to adapt them to changing requirements
• systematically reflect on their own use of AI, identify challenges and, building on this, develop robust, sustainable routines for the use of AI in everyday research (including documentation and self-assessment)

Terms of participation & Registration

Free of charge for PhD students and postdocs in Saxony-Anhalt.

If you are unable to attend after registering, please inform us immediately at graduate.academy@ovgu.de.

This will enable us to consider other interested participants who are still on a waiting list. Please note that if you do not cancel your participation in good time and/or if you do not show up on the day of the event, we may be forced to claim compensation from you for the proportionate costs of the event incurred in relation to your person. You are, of course, free to prove that the Graduate Academy has incurred no or less damage than that claimed.