Course

AI for Research

For PhD students, journalists, consultants, analysts. Search and discovery, academic tools, source analysis, writing and synthesis, and verification.

Length
~8 hours + research project
Structure
8 modules · 29 lessons
Certificate
Verifiable on completion

Coming soon

This course is still in development. The structure below is a preview of what will be available — modules and lesson titles may change as we build it.

1

Research with AI: Foundations

  • 1Where AI helps and where it hurts in research
  • 2Citation hygiene and AI
  • 3Bias and selection effects in AI research
2

Search & Discovery

  • 1Perplexity Pro and Deep Research
  • 2Claude with web search
  • 3Gemini Deep Research
  • 4When to use which
3

Academic Research Tools

  • 1Elicit
  • 2Consensus
  • 3SciSpace
  • 4Semantic Scholar with AI
  • 5Building literature review pipelines
4

Document & Source Analysis

  • 1NotebookLM for source synthesis
  • 2Long-document analysis with Claude/Gemini
  • 3Comparing across multiple sources
  • 4Extracting structured data from PDFs
5

Writing & Synthesis

  • 1From sources to argument
  • 2AI as a thinking partner (not a writer)
  • 3Outline-driven writing workflows
  • 4Avoiding AI sludge in your writing
6

Verification & Fact-Checking

  • 1The verification habit
  • 2Source-checking workflows
  • 3Detecting AI hallucinations in research
  • 4When to walk back AI-assisted claims
7

Disclosure in Research Contexts

  • 1Academic norms
  • 2Journalism standards
  • 3Consulting and analyst contexts
  • 4Building your personal research disclosure standard
8

Capstone

A complete research artifact — literature review, investigative piece, or analyst report — with documented AI workflow and disclosure.

  • 1Capstone Project