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

Get involved

The AI Professional Practice Co-Lab project will involve the UOW university community in a range of engagement activities and events throughout 2026. A key way to get involved is to apply for a Grant. 

Apply for an AI Professional Practice Co-Lab Grant

Expressions of Interest are open for the AI Professional Practice Co-Lab, a discipline-led initiative exploring how generative AI is reshaping professional practice and what this means for course and curriculum design at UOW. The Co-Lab provides three grants per Faculty ($5,000 each) to support academic leaders to engage directly with employers, professional bodies, alumni and practitioner networks to investigate how AI is changing professional roles, capabilities and expectations.

Participants will translate these insights into guiding principles for course design and graduate capability, participate in a cross-faculty Community of Practice, and contribute to the UOW renAIssance Showcase in 2026.

Collaborative projects involving colleagues across UOW’s Australian domestic and global campuses are strongly encouraged, particularly where they can contribute insights from industry, professional practice or employer networks in their regions. 

To apply for a grant, scan the QR code to the right or access the AI Professional Practice Co-Lab Grant Application Form


Deadline for Submitting an Application: 

• Expressions of Interest will close 11.59 pm Thursday 2nd April (AEDT). Applications will be reviewed after the closing date, and outcomes communicated as soon as possible thereafter.