Course Overview
Writing Research with AI is an intensive, 12-hour crash course divided into eight 1.5-hour lessons that teaches you how to use AI as a thoughtful research partner. Rather than using AI to skip the work, the curriculum guides you through the full social research lifecycle – from forming a research question and finding verified sources to designing surveys and transcribing interviews.
A central theme of the course is academic integrity and critical verification. You will learn to spot AI-generated text, remove generic “AI voice” markers to develop your own scholarly tone, and cross-check data to catch machine hallucinations or fabricated citations. Ultimately, the course emphasizes ethical data handling, participant privacy, and transparent AI disclosure, ensuring you know exactly how to document your tool usage and remain fully accountable for your final research paper.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Use AI tools thoughtfully as a research partner
- Find sources in academic databases and verify that AI isn’t making them up
- Create accurate citations and bibliographies, with or without AI help
- Write a clear research question and thesis statement that you can defend
- Know when to use surveys, interviews, or focus groups, and design them
- Transcribe interviews and summarize them with AI while protecting participant privacy
- Spot AI-generated text and rewrite it in your own voice
- Document how you used AI and explain your choices clearly
The course is suitable for university students, early-career researchers, NGO professionals, and anyone interested in combining academic research skills with emerging AI technologies.
The training program begins on July 13 and consists of eight online sessions held twice a week.
🗓️ Class Day: Monday and Wednesday
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
🌐 Format: Fully Online (via Zoom)
👥 Maximum number of participants: 15
📅 Application deadline: July 10
💰 Course fee: 400 GEL
The course will be conducted in English.
Participants who complete the course will receive certificates.
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Submit your application here!
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For additional questions, please contact us:
E-mail: z.fabos@crrccenters.org
Social media: Facebook / LinkedIn (CRRC Georgia)
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Trainer
Zachary Fabos | Researcher
Zachary joined CRRC-Georgia in 2023, first as an International Fellow and then as a Researcher. Utilizing data collected in the field, from nationally representative surveys to focus groups and interviews, he provides quantitative and qualitative analysis, interprets findings, and offers policy recommendations for partner organizations such as USAID, IREX, UN Women, and UNDP, among others. He also contributes to research instrument design and qualitative fieldwork.
Zachary received his Master of Science degree in Anthropology from Illinois State University. His experience in the South Caucasus spans nearly a decade across the education, civil society, and research sectors.
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