"Has AI done away with the literature review? How can we use AI effectively but not slavishly? What does AI do well – and what does it do badly?"

Join Gary Thomas, author of the newly published ‘How to Do Your Literature Review’ as he addresses these questions – and more – to do with literature review.

Gary will discuss the literature review as part of a wider student research project and as an assessed project in its own right. In particular, he will look at the new AI tools that exist to help with literature review and he will discuss the merits (and demerits) of these tools.

He will go on to look at how human intelligence can structure a review in ways that AI cannot. He will look at various forms of organisation of a review – funnelling, chronological, thematic, comparison-based – that give coherence and integrity to a review and take it to a level that AI cannot achieve. Students can be encouraged to use such forms of organisation in ways that will enable them to rise above the list-like summaries offered by AI.

Register here.