Examples from the Disciplines - Centre for Academic Practice, Trinity Teaching & Learning

This page showcases practical examples and case studies illustrating how Generative AI (GenAI) is being adopted across various academic disciplines at Trinity and beyond. Here, you’ll find insights into innovative teaching, learning, and assessment practices, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges that GenAI brings to higher education.

Explore Trinity’s discipline-specific case studies to discover real-world implementations of tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, and HeyGen in areas from Digital Marketing and Physiotherapy to Computer Science, Medicine, and Pharmacy. Additionally, you’ll find open access publications featuring a broad spectrum of GenAI applications from universities across Ireland.

Whether you are an educator, researcher, or student, these examples are designed to inspire, inform, and guide effective, ethical, and creative use of GenAI in academic practice.

Trinity Case Studies

Leveraging ChatGPT, Midjourney and HeyGen to empower Digital Marketing students;

Dr Kisito F. Nzembayie; Area: Business.

The potential and risks of GenAI applications in clinical settings;

Dr Cuisle Forde; Area: Physiotherapy.

Boosting CS students programming skills by comparing solutions with GenAI output

Béibhinn Nic Ruairí and Dr Jonathan Dukes; Area: Computer Science.

Exploring novel assessment approaches in Health policy & Management using GenAI

Dr Carlos Bruen; Area: Medicine.

Using ChatGPT in a Biopharmaceutics workshop to enhance critical thinking skills

Dr Deirdre D’Arcy; Area: Pharmacy.

Open Access Publications

Using GenAI in Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Irish Universities;

This open resource features over 30 innovative case studies from different universities in Ireland across a range of disciplines that incorporate GenAI into teaching, learning and assessment (Open Publication).