Responsible Usage and Prompting of AI for Researchers

Intro

Responsible Usage and Prompting of AI for Researchers guides learners through responsible, ethical, and effective use of AI in research. From examining AI usage guidelines for research to following specific prompt patterns, this course delves into:

• Ethical considerations surrounding AI use in research

• Leading AI usage guidelines in research

• AI-era principles of academic and research integrity

• Nine prompt patterns for responsible AI use in research

What You’ll Learn

Responsible Usage and Prompting of AI for Researchers provides a thorough examination of ethical AI use in research, including bias, hallucinations, ghostwriting, and authorship concerns. It further explores how AI is changing academic integrity in areas like proofreading, peer review, authorship, and citations. Learners are presented with practical strategies to maintain human agency, apply critical thinking, craft clear prompts, and evaluate AI outputs responsibly to uphold integrity. Learners will practice improving prompts, spotting errors, and customising outputs, within common research scenarios such as brainstorming, literature review, summarisation, referencing, and proofreading.

2. Responsible Prompting for Academic Integrity

3. Prompt Types and Strategies

✓ Identify AI-era principles of academic integrity.

✓ Evaluate prompts and LLM outputs according to principles of academic integrity.

✓ Use specific prompt patterns to design, modify, and apply prompts for research purposes.

Who It’s For

This course is relevant for researchers and research stakeholders who want to ensure they are upholding integrity standards while benefiting from collaborating with AI.

Get Prepared

The course is fully self-paced and can be followed at learners’ own pace. The course includes several opportunities for in-course practice with AI using specific prompt patterns. These activities can be completed on a mobile device, tablet, or laptop.

Course Expert(s)

Dr Salim Razi

Dr Salim Razı is the Founder and Director of COMU Centre for Academic Integrity. He served as a founder Board member of the European Network for Academic Integrity from 2017 to 2023 and is the co-founder of AMEA Integrity. He coordinated the EU Erasmus+ KA2 project “Facing Academic Integrity Threats (FAITH)” which earned the “Good Practice” label. He developed the ‘transparent academic writing rubric’ and struggles to prevent plagiarism through the ‘anonymous multi-mediated writing model’, for which he was awarded the Turnitin Global Innovation Award in 2015. His model was listed as a good practice by the Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency in 2017. He received the ENAI Outstanding Member Award in 2023 with reference to his significant contributions to the promotion of academic integrity especially among early career researchers by initiating “ENAI PhD Summer Schools” that was also disseminated by Times Higher Education. He also received the ENAI Exemplary Activism Award in 2025 as a founder of the Asia–Middle East–Africa Conference on Academic and Research Integrity. He is an associate editor of the International Journal for Educational Integrity.

Burcu Özge Razı

Burcu Özge Razı is the Student Board President of the ÇOMÜ Centre for Academic Integrity (COMU CAI) at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. Her scholarly work focuses on academic integrity, ethical AI implementation, and the pedagogical use of generative artificial intelligence in language education. She also serves as an Onboarding Consultant for Türkiye at Turnitin. Burcu has contributed to major international projects, including the Erasmus+ FAITH project and the Dubai RDI-funded Yathiqu Project. She has presented widely at international conferences and delivered professional development workshops on AI ethics, prompt engineering, academic integrity policy development, and AI literacy.

Programme

Professional AI Use in Higher Education is a four-course programme that supports professionals as they navigate becoming effective AI collaborators in research and beyond.

The programme covers the building of AI literacy through basic definitions of AI to creating goals to becoming the AI subject matter expert in the office. It further provides learners with specific prompt patterns to ensure ethical AI use in research.

The programme supports researchers and university professionals in:

• understanding and increasing AI literacy,

• incorporating AI into daily tasks,

• recognising the impact of AI at the organisational and societal levels,

• developing ethical standards for AI use,

• and creating plans to continue AI learning.

2. Develop Your Professional AI Use

3. Thrive in an AI-Enhanced Professional Environment 

4. Responsible Usage and Prompting of AI for Researchers