Sheet 1: Research Use Card and Panarchy Chart

Stochastic Parrots and Beyond · front: instructions and Research Use Card · back: Panarchy Chart

The first of two double-sided A4 sheets for each participant. The front holds the instructions for the day and the Research Use Card. The back holds the Panarchy Chart with fields for the challenge and the influences.
Modified

30 October 2026

Instructions

Keep this sheet all day. The instructors do not collect it. Do not write confidential or personal data, or the names of people who are not in the room.

  1. Morning, alone. Fill in the Research Use Card. Your Research Use is one actual or planned use of generative AI in your research. The term stays the same all day.
  2. After the four Lens inputs. Write the Lens that fits your Research Use best on the card.
  3. Lens group. Introduce your card. Apply the four questions of your Lens to each Research Use.
  4. Panarchy Block 1, alone. Turn the sheet over. Write your challenge in one sentence: what must change to make your Research Use more responsible? List the influences.
  5. Block 1, pairs. Sort your influences into levels. Compare your levels.
  6. Block 1, groups of four. Present your challenge. Select one challenge. Use Sheet 2, front, part A.
  7. Block 2, pairs. Examine the open challenges. Use Sheet 2, front, part B.
  8. End of the day. Complete your Action Plan on Sheet 2, back. A peer reviews it.

Research Use Card

Research Use Card
Field Notes
My Research Use: the task
System or tool
Why I might use it
What I do not know: training data, costs, terms of use
Who else is affected
The Lens that fits best: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4

Panarchy Chart

Panarchy Chart for one participant. At the top, a field for the challenge in one sentence. On the left, a ruled field for the influences: people, rules, tools, money, habits. On the right, five horizontal bands from level 1, small and fast, at the bottom to level 5, large and slow, at the top. Each band has a field for its level name. An arrow on the left points up: ideas and experiments spread up. An arrow on the right points down: resources and rules flow down.

To type your chart, use the fields below or the Word version. Level 1 is small and fast. Level 5 is large and slow.

Panarchy Chart fields
Field Notes
Challenge (one sentence)
Influences
Level 5: name and influences
Level 4: name and influences
Level 3: name and influences
Level 2: name and influences
Level 1: name and influences
NoteLiberating Structures

The structures and illustrations used in this session are adapted under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 from the original work of Keith McCandless, Henri Lipmanowicz and Nancy White found at www.liberatingstructures.com and the Liberating Structures Fieldbook (2026). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The drawing is original. No Liberating Structures icons are used.

PDF · Word · SVG ·This handout: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Stochastic Parrots and Beyond, Laura Wagner and Moritz Mähr.

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