Using AI Agents Workshops: Using coding agents for working with research data and managing the research process: Introduction to non-programmers
Location
In-person
Date & Time
Friday 19 Jun 2026 10:00 - 13:00
Audience exposure level - Level 2: Sometimes use AI
Increasingly researchers in all disciplines have been using coding agents to transform how they work with their data and manage the research process. Working with coding agents moves the use of AI from a tool that can write emails or summaries of academic papers to one that can help with the whole process of collecting, organising and analysing data as well as keeping better records about the research process. This hands-on workshop applies agentic AI to research data tasks: qualitative coding, pattern recognition, document processing, and building simple custom tools for data management. Participants will work with their own materials, guided through practical workflows that combine the intelligence of LLMs with the file-handling capabilities of coding agents.
Objectives
- Current practices for using coding agents with research data
- Qualitative coding and thematic analysis with AI assistance
- Skills and agent instructions — moving beyond the basic prompt to get more transparency of what AI did
- Document processing pipelines: batch conversion, summarisation, extraction
- Building custom data processing tools for recurring research tasks
- Reproducibility and documentation challenges in AI-assisted research
