After Generative AI
Preparing Faculty to Transform Education, Learning, and Pedagogy

Authors: Samar Aad and Mariann Hardey
Routledge for Emerald, Spring 2025.

Is GAI the future of learning?

This book isn't just about technology. 

It's about how Generative AI (GAI) reshapes education. We're not here to list features or debate pros and cons. We're here to ensure you understand GAI's transformative impact so you can feel informed and knowledgeable about the future of education.

GAI is already changing learning techniques.
Media reports have hailed AI as 'the next industrial revolution.' After GAI equips you for this transformative era, focusing on the context of change, education cultures, and new learning forms. It's designed to be a helpful guide for those with questions about education policies, governance, and power - including points of resistance. 

A guide to the new education landscape.
From tailored educational approaches to ethical implications, After GAI empowers educators and learners with the insights and resources necessary to design engaging and impactful learning experiences that leverage GAI's potential. This understanding puts you in the driver's seat, giving you the control and capability to navigate the new education landscape.

Discover:
• How GAI is reshaping teaching and learning
• New learning cultures emerging globally
• Practical strategies for educators and students

The challenge at hand is not only related to the implementation of the technology (i.e., where and with whom does it land?), but also to the emotions it evokes and the lessons it can teach us.

​HOUSEHOLD SELF-TRACKING
DURING A GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS

Author: Mariann Hardey
Routledge for Emerald, 2022.

Self-tracking is a rapidly growing area of study and will play an important role in the future of how we understand health change and responsibility. Understanding the personal and social dimensions of tracking within households improves our understanding of health consumption and knowledge, particularly during significant global crises. Ignoring the household context of health or focusing solely on individual tracking behaviour is no longer an option.

Household Self-Tracking During a Global Health Crisis provides a comprehensive and straightforward account of deeper health narratives managed through data tracking within households formed during a global health crisis. The book examines the contextual, personal, and social factors surrounding health tracking, including the commercialisation of Covid-19 health tracking, public data tracking, and health-surveillance issues, from a social science perspective. Inequalities in health, as well as expanded concepts of fitness and illness management, are highlighted as part of a significant shift in how we understand and integrate home health regimes, and how this is made possible by the incorporation of household biometric data tracking.

This book will assist researchers interested in self-tracking and health technologies, as well as postgraduate students studying psychology, medicine, social science, and business. I explore several personal insights as well as research which may be unfamiliar to some social scientists, helping situate new perspectives and understanding.

THE CULTURE OF WOMEN IN TECH.
AN UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN

Author: Mariann Hardey
Routledge for Emerald, 2020.

Is the place of ‘women in tech’ immovable from masculine leadership practices? And what are the cultural, social, personal and economic consequences of gender as a point of difference in the context of work in the tech sector? 

This book offers a critical analysis of the contemporary and global tech culture and exposes the gender bias of masculine tech ideology and stereotypes. 

Over a decade of data collection and analysis, this book examines the rise of entrepreneurial work and leadership, the contemporary urban setting of global tech work, and specifically women’s place in tech clusters. The book engages with attempts by women to establish and then sustain their professional status and long-term careers, despite predatory social media trolling and inappropriate sexualised behaviour. Based on a series of commentaries from research undertaken by the author about workers located within ‘tech cities’ in the UK, USA and East Asia regions, the work exposes the serious problem of women’s position in the industry. While this study continues to be critical of the conceits of masculine tech ideology, prejudices and stereotypes, the work contributes to recent calls to help find solutions and ways forward.