A new CRADLE Fellowship for 2025
17 June 2025
We are pleased to announce that a new CRADLE Fellowship has been awarded for 2025. Congratulations and welcome to Dr Chris Hughes, Associate Professor of Supervisor Development at the Researcher Development Academy.
Chris’s fellowship project ‘Doctoral learning, supervision and assessment in the GenAI context – Changing digital conditions of/for learning’ aims to examine the impacts of GenAI in the conduct of research. Chris will focus on the human concepts of Logic, Language and Meaning, especially in the development of scholars. More specifically, he will try to identify the set of concerns and questions held by graduate researchers, research supervisors and assessors. Additionally, he will explore how they navigate this new concept. The goal is to better understand forward-thinking policy approaches.
We wish Chris well as he undertakes this empirical investigation. He will be researching what is largely an underexplored and overlooked aspect of education and GenAI – doctoral supervision, learning, and assessment.
About Chris Hughes
Chris is an Associate Professor of Supervisor Development within the Researcher Development Academy. His works involves providing quality workshops and training opportunities to all research supervisors to further enhance the research culture. In addition to this role in supervisor development, he is involved in the review of the research degree policy major course and GenAI working group.
His research interests are in philosophy, doctoral education and supervisor development, philosophy of mind and language, and philosophy and AI. He has published widely and is supervisor to many students, as well as being a PhD external examiner for University of Central Lancashire, Cardiff Metropolitan University and Edge Hill University. Chris earned his PhD from Leeds Beckett University and has most recently worked as a Researcher Development Fellow at Edge Hill University.
What is the CRADLE Fellowship Scheme?
The objectives of the CRADLE Fellowship Scheme are to attract Deakin academics to foster the development of relevant research expertise, and support excellent practice in assessment and digital learning at Deakin. Fellows are given access to our facilities and research team, and are financially supported to develop both their individual and faculty’s research profile. The benefits of a CRADLE Fellowship include mentoring and financial support for research, gaining worldwide recognition as part of an international research centre, and opportunities for research partnerships with eminent researchers from overseas.
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