Showcasing AI in practice episode 2
Webinar Tuesday 22nd September 2026 | Live via Teams at 12:00-13:30 CEST
Description
During our webinar series on AI in education, we invite colleagues to share how they are creatively integrating AI into their teaching and learning practice and what they have learned along the way.
In this session, we’re delighted to welcome Dr. Ingrid Samset, Assistant Professor at Leiden University, NL, and Dr. Matthew Voice, Assistant Professor at Warwick University, UK.
Ingrid works at Leiden University and will talk to us about a set of pedagogical AI assistants (e.g. Tutor, Architect, Mirror, Critic, Historical Persona) she has designed using their own in-house LLM, to support students in understanding course materials, structuring ideas and developing arguments in her courses. These assistants are integrated as 24/7 collaborative learning tools that enhance engagement, critical thinking and human–AI collaboration, while complementing (rather than replacing) traditional teaching and class participation.
Matthew works in applied linguistics at Warwick University in the UK and has been very active in experimenting with AI in education, first for formative assessment and now he is using AI to address possible decline in student preparation and a growing tendency to rely on AI-generated summaries of readings. He deliberately integrates AI into pre-tutorial work by asking students to generate and critically compare AI reading summaries with the original texts, helping them reflect on what may be gained or lost through AI use while strengthening critical thinking and engagement with the material.
Programme
- Welcome
- Pedagogical AI Assistants as Educational Tools | Dr. Ingrid Samset
- Integrating AI into Teaching and Learnings: Success, Challenges, and Reflections | Dr. Matthew Voice
- Audience questions / general discussion
- Wrap-Up
After each presentation, there is time for immediate questions and after both talks, we’ll open the floor for a broader discussion: a chance to exchange ideas, ask questions and get inspired by what others are trying in their teaching. Please feel free to share your own ideas and experiences too!
Other details
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Our guests in this episode
Ingrid Samset, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Leiden University College (LUC), Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA), Leiden University. Trained in political science, Dr Samset addresses questions in the intersection between politics, history, law, and society in her teaching and research, with a special interest in conflict dynamics, colonial legacies, and transitional justice. She has experience from commissioned and applied research in Africa and Asia, having served as a consultant on peacebuilding and development evaluations. Dr Samset has been a visiting scholar at various universities in the Americas and Europe, including as a Fulbright scholar in 2008. At Leiden University, she gained the Senior Teaching Qualification in 2022 and is currently serving on the university’s STQ Committee as the first representative of the FGGA. Her interest in integrating didactical AI tools in teaching and learning draws on 12 years of experience teaching in higher education and her service as LUC’s Thesis Coordinator from 2022-25, the period when advanced AI became widely available.
Matthew Voice, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick. His research and teaching explores the social and political functions of language in a diverse range of contexts – from pop songs to drone warfare – and more recently with a focus on Large Language Models. With Professor Chris Hart (Lancaster), he is the co-editor of The Language of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from Critical Discourse Analysis, a forthcoming collection of papers analysing the ideological positioning of AI in discursive contexts ranging from social media to higher education classrooms. In his teaching, Matthew has been working with Professor Jo Angouri to develop novel methods for integrating AI tools into the classroom in a way which instils students with critical reflexivity, and it is this work which forms the basis of his talk for this series.