About Us
We teach people how to direct generative AI and check what it produces in their teaching and research. We offer courses and workshops, and work with schools and organisations on professional learning.
Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton
Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton studies how people and organisations build an effective and ethical relationship with artificial intelligence. He leads the Faculty of Arts’ work on generative AI at Macquarie University.
He wrote the university’s guidance note on generative AI in research, and that work won the 2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence in Research Integrity Award. He has taught more than 1,500 researchers to work with large language models, across more than 40 workshops. He has also advised UK financial regulators on AI policy.
Dr Jodie Torrington
Dr Jodie Torrington spent more than two decades as a primary school teacher, working in four Australian states and territories and in New Zealand. She brought that experience into research, and her doctorate examined how young children manage their own learning with digital tools. She now manages the Teachers’ Learning Hub at Macquarie University, where she turns research into professional learning for teachers.
Her research asks who students believe controls what AI gives them, a question she and Brian Ballsun-Stanton named the AI-Locus of Control. The Teachers’ Guild of NSW made her an Honorary Fellow in 2022. She is currently part of an international advisory team on AI learning design, which is supported by UNESCO.
Contact
Get in touch to discuss an AI workshop or professional learning for your school or organisation. You can also contact us about research collaboration or AI policy.