AI Professional Practices Co-Lab

Preparing for AI-transformed professional futures

 

Domain 5: Employability

The AI Practice Co-Lab Project is a university-wide initiative designed to ensure UOW’s curriculum remains closely aligned with the rapidly evolving capabilities, expectations, and practices emerging across industries and professions. 

Project Overview

AI Practice Co-Lab will ensure UOW’s curriculum remains informed by real changes occurring within industry. Through an open expression-of-interest process, UOW will offer three $5,000 grants per Faculty (nine in total) to academic leaders undertaking investigations into how generative AI is affecting their field.

Why this matters

AI is transforming how professions operate, and the capabilities employers expect from graduates. For UOW to prepare students for an AI-intensive workforce, course design will need to reflect current, evidence-based industry expectations.

What the AI Practice Co-Lab Project delivers

• Insight reports on how AI is reshaping professional practice
• Guiding principles for discipline-relevant curriculum and graduate capability implications
• High-impact dissemination outputs (infographics, short videos, micro-presentations)
• A framework for ongoing integration of AI-related professional insights into curriculum renewal

How it works

Each Co-Lab project will select engagement methods suited to its discipline such as, practitioner workshops, employer interviews, roundtables, or targeted consultations. Findings will be distilled into concise, high-impact outputs and shared at the 2026 renAIssance Showcase.

Strategic outcome

The Co-Lab will ensure UOW courses remain aligned with contemporary AI-enabled professional practice, producing graduates with relevant, future-ready capabilities.

Project timeline