Research

SEED-AI: Social Enterprise Education Design with AI – A Student–Community Partnership Project

Principal investigator: Rehan SHAH
Co-investigator(s): Anne Preston (UCL) and Sara Hamandi (SEMS undergraduate)
Funding source(s): Researching, Advancing and Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE) Network
 Start: 05-01-2026  /  End: 31-07-2026
 Amount: £500

This project focuses on the co-design of a new, shared social entrepreneurship module featuring students working with an E17 Films, a local East London community organisation to develop socially driven entrepreneurial ideas using ethical and creative applications of Generative AI. Our team comprising two student co-researchers, a community partner, and two academic staff members, will employ a participatory design methodology to collaboratively design the module structure, assessment, and GenAI learning activities. Our work builds on existing student–community engagement work at QMUL and UCL East and responds to student interest in learning that is locally relevant, socially impactful, and future-focused. By co-creating the curriculum with students and communities, we aim to model a more democratic and socially responsible approach to educational design. The final module blueprint output will provide a transferable model that other institutions can adopt to support student partnership, ethical GenAI use, and community-engaged curriculum development.