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Staff guidance

Generative Artificial Intelligence can be used effectively and legitimately across all types of teaching, research and administration. The ethical use of such tools can provide significant benefits but there are clear risks and security concerns, which are explained in the University guidance for staff on the Secretariat website.

If you have questions about AI, please email us.

University guidance for staff

This guidance applies to AI in its widest sense, which includes Gen AI as a subgroup.

This guidance is for anyone employed at the University who uses or plans to use AI in teaching, research or administrative tasks. This also applies to external lecturers, assessors and postgraduate researchers who have a temporary or part-time staff role. Hosted on the Secretariat website.

Guidance to staff on the use of Artificial Intelligence

AI for student education

Guidance and resources to support using Gen AI in student education, including:

  • applying RAG categories for assessments
  • writing a Gen AI statement
  • talking to students
  • Gen AI detection tools
  • Leeds case studies.
AI for student education

AI use in research

University procedures for using Gen AI in research, ethically and with integrity, and how to use the output from AI tools.

Data restrictions and security

Understand what data types you must not enter into Gen AI software and about using prompts to generate outputs.

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