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Manifesto for feedback in the age of GenAI
29 October 2025
In May 2025, Deakin University through CRADLE co-hosted a feedback symposium in Copenhagen alongside University of Copenhagen, King’s College London and the University of Melbourne. Seventeen leading researchers came together to advance the agenda for future feedback research and a subgroup wrote a manifesto. This manifesto is a call to action. As educators, researchers, students, and university leaders, we face urgent and complex decisions about how to engage with generative AI in education.
Meet our new PhD Scholarship students
7 October 2025
Meet CRADLE’s newest strategic PhD scholarship holders, Siham AbuKhalaf and Rachel Feng. Siham and Rachel share their thoughts on their decision to undertake further study and their aspirations for the PhD journey ahead.
Do we need to change assessment design for AI?
6 October 2025
In this post, CRADLE PhD candidate Mert Pekel reflects on the expert panel session CRADLE held as part of our International Symposium 2025. The session also doubled as webinar #2 in our New Directions in AI Research and Practice series and discussed changing university assessment practices for a world with AI. Mert reflects on the questions considered, and how the discussions have influenced his research with CRADLE.
Join us to discover how to enhance feedback in less than ideal circumstances
3 October 2025
In our last seminar for 2025 Professor Margaret Bearman will discuss the perennial challenges for practical feedback change. Join us online or at Deakin Downtown on Tuesday 11 November 2025 at 2pm.
Juuso Nieminen awarded prestigious Erik De Corte award
16 September 2025
We are thrilled to announce that Dr Juuso Henrik Nieminen, Senior Research Fellow with CRADLE, has been awarded the Erik De Corte award at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) 2025 Conference.
How do we make assessment tasks secure in a time of GenAI?
15 September 2025
The proliferation of generative AI (GenAI) continues to pose challenges for educators seeking to ensure their assessments remain valid and secure. Bringing together leading assessment and academic integrity scholars and practitioners, this webinar will discuss the urgent question of how to design secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI. It’s the third session in our three-part series: New Directions in AI Research and Practice. Join our panel online on Thursday 23 October at 2pm.



















