Items with category:Seminar Review
Validity and authenticity: How to treat cognition and AI
26 May 2026
In this post, CRADLE PhD student Sky Kusumastuti offers her reflections on our fourth seminar for 2026, ‘Entangled intelligence? Distributed cognition, AI agents, and assessment validity’. This seminar challenged the audience to consider some difficult questions around assessment and GenAI, while acknowledging that we may not know the answers yet.
Beyond grades: the depth of the challenge universities face
1 May 2026
In this post, CRADLE PhD student Lincoln Then James offers his reflections on our third seminar for 2026, ‘Is it time to move beyond grades?’ After situating grades in their historical context, this presentation challenged attendees to reconsider long-held beliefs about grades and whether there is still a place for grades in today’s universities.
All about balance? How to prepare graduates for the AI-evolving world (of work)
31 March 2026
In this post, CRADLE PhD student Siham AbuKhalaf reflects on the critical question of our second seminar for 2026: Unknowable Futures: Preparing Graduates for an AI-Evolving World (of Work). In a world shaped by AI, what should higher education actually prepare students for?
A provocation: the manifesto for feedback
20 February 2026
In this post, CRADLE PhD student Siham AbuKhalaf reflects on the timely and salient messages of our first seminar for 2026: Manifesto for feedback in the age of AI. The topics are closely aligned with Siham's own research areas whereby she is investigating the relationship between AI, authentic assessment, and student motivation.
The reality of uncertainty: Transforming feedback cultures
28 November 2025
In this post, CRADLE Senior Research Fellow Dr Nicole Crawford shares her reflections and key takeaways from our last seminar of 2025. In the seminar CRADLE’s Professor Margaret Bearman presented an insightful and nuanced discussion on the role that feedback cultures play in surgical and intensive care medicine training.
Review: Our PhD students discover why being authentic is essential
25 June 2025
In this post we hear the perspectives of two CRADLE PhD students, Xin Liu and Nisrina Wibisono, on CRADLE’s most recent seminar “Why authenticity matters: Helping students to find meaning and value in assessment”. This seminar was presented by Dr Tim Chambers, CRADLE Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology.
