LSE AI and Education Fellowships

 

Integrating GenAI pedagogically takes far more time and experimentation than people realise. The AI Fellowship is giving me the space to do that properly. The more colleagues who get this opportunity, the better for our students.

AI and Education Fellow Lourdes Hernandez Martin, Language Coordinator - Arabic and Coordinator for Spanish Projects (Language Centre)

LSE's AI and Education Fellowships are an exciting opportunity for LSE academics to lead on embedding AI in education at LSE and beyond.

In its first year, the programme has established and tested a new model for AI-integrated course development; created an engaged cohort; built a network to support, disseminate, and evaluate best practices; and begun a shift in institutional culture.

The consistent thread across all Fellows is a commitment to enhancing rather than replacing student reasoning, using AI to support critical thinking, structured enquiry, and the development of AI literacy.

Our LSE AI and Education Fellows and their work so far 

Dr Antonio Mele, Associate Professor of Economics (Education) and Undergraduate Programme Director (Economics)

Antonio is running structured experiments on how generative AI can reshape economics education, redesigning teaching so AI becomes a scalable support for student reasoning rather than a shortcut. 

Read more about Antonio's Fellowship work

Dr Chris Blunt, Associate Professor (Education) and LSE100 Co-Director & Dr Jillian Terry, Associate Professor (Education) and LSE100 Co-Director.

Jillian and Chris are embedding responsible, optional use of LLMs in LSE’s flagship interdisciplinary course for all undergraduates (around 2,000 students a year). Their focus is on improving flipped learning and inclusive participation, while building students’ critical AI literacy early in their degrees.

Read more about Jillian and Chris's Fellowship work 

Dr Dario Krpan, Associate Professor (Psychology and Behaviour)

Dario’s AI Fellowship focuses on integrating AI tools into Behavioural Science teaching now, while also shaping future curriculum options that connect AI, technology and behavioural science. 

Read more about Dario's Fellowship work

Dr David O'Sullivan, Assistant Professor (Mathematics)

David plans to use AI tools to support enquiry-led teaching and a research-rich learning experience in large first-year mathematics courses with about 200 students. 

Read more about David's Fellowship work

Dr Dorottya Sallai, Associate Professor (Education) of Management (Management)

Dori, working with AI Fellow Jon Cardoso-Silva and Steven Williams (Eden Centre), has adapted Jon’s approach into a course-aware AI chatbot now being piloted with students on her Change Management teaching. 

Read more about Dori's Fellowship work

Dr Jon Cardoso-Silva, Assistant Professor (Education) (Data Science Institute)

Jon’s Fellowship explored how generative AI can be embedded into teaching to strengthen student learning and responsibility. Across two linked projects, he used AI to scaffold reasoning, reflection and feedback – while building in constraints to support pedagogy and academic integrity. 

Read more about Jon's Fellowship work

Dr Marcos Barreto, Associate Professor (Education), Department Lead on AI and KEI Strategic Lead (Statistics)

Marcos’s Fellowship links two strands: using AI to better support students’ database modelling and programming, and exploring how agentic AI can improve quantitative teaching by shifting effort from repetitive coding to problem-solving and orchestrating multi-agent workflows. In this way, students will be prepared for a professional landscape in which agentic AI is increasingly central to data science practice.

Read more about Marcos's Fellowship work

Lourdes Hernandez Martin, Language Coordinator - Arabic and Coordinator for Spanish Projects (Language Centre)

Lourdes is redesigning Enfoques/, a year-long research project within Spanish Language and Society, to reflect how AI is used in real professional contexts. The redesign integrates GenAI in a structured way to strengthen academic literacy, critical judgement and responsible AI practice.

Read more about Lourdes's Fellowship work.

David Pinzur,  Assistant Professor (Sociology)

David will commence his buy-out in the 2026/27 academic year.

Dr Clare Wenham, Associate Professor of Global Health Policy (Health Policy)  

Clare will commence her buy-out in the 2026/27 academic year.

 

What does it mean to be an LSE AI and Education Fellow?

  • The Fellowship is a one term teaching buy-out to allow our Fellows time and space to reimagine and redesign the teaching, learning and assessment on their course or multiple courses in the department through exploring and taking advantage of the opportunities of AI tools.
  • Our Fellows will receive advice, guidance and one-to-one support from a dedicated 'AI in education development' expert who works jointly across the Digital Skills Lab and the Eden Centre. They will provide practical hands-on support for course redesign and the build and implementation of AI tools.
  • Fellows will receive dedicated project management, administrative, and communications support to help with the promotion and dissemination of case studies and resulting course materials internally and externally (as appropriate).

What is expected of our LSE AI and Education Fellows? 

  • Each Fellow is delivering an AI-integrated course (or courses) aligned with the aims, deliverables, and timeline agreed upon with the Review Panel.
  • They will champion their work in LSE and beyond, including producing an open access case study across media formats, sharing course materials, presenting at events, and supporting wider work in the department and in LSE on development of AI in education. They will be taking an active role in the Fellowship Community of Practice for the full two years of the scheme.
  • Work closely with colleagues in their own department including the Deputy Head (Education), relevant Programme Director(s), and feed into the Department Teaching Committee or equivalent body.

More information

Please contact Thomas Watson, Head of Strategy and Portfolio Management, (ESE):  t.watson@lse.ac.uk, with any additional queries.