AI & Education
How generative and agentic systems reshape curriculum, teaching, assessment, and the authority to define what counts as knowledge.
Researcher · Educator · SpeakerLondon, Canada · Working globally
01—04
Who gets to shapethe futurewhen intelligence becomes infrastructure?
Roman Naghshi studies artificial intelligence, curriculum, and institutional power—asking how emerging systems redistribute knowledge, authority, and opportunity.
PhD research · Western UniversityAI & educationCurriculum studiesInformation systems
What I'm thinking about
Artificial intelligence is never only technical.
Every new system carries assumptions about expertise, value, and whose judgment should matter. My work examines those assumptions before they harden into ordinary practice.
Technology & Power
Who gains agency, legitimacy, and advantage when digital systems move from useful tools to institutional infrastructure.
Organizations & Society
How institutions absorb technological change—and how people negotiate the new expectations, hierarchies, and possibilities that follow.
Selected work
Ideas made public.
Research, teaching, and public engagement connected by one concern: how people retain agency as intelligent systems become more powerful.
Featured research · 2025Critical discourse analysis
Agentic AI: The Future of White and Gold Collar Careers
A critical examination of autonomous AI, professional work, and the ideologies shaping adoption. The project asks what happens to expertise and human agency when systems begin to initiate action rather than merely respond to instructions.
Doctoral researchCurrent
AI as Curricular Mediator
Investigating how governing bodies, institutions, educators, teacher candidates, and generative AI collectively shape curriculum-making and educational authority.
Open educational resource2025
Critiquing AI-Generated Essays
A case-analysis resource that helps learners move beyond detection and toward close, critical evaluation of AI-generated academic writing.
International workshop2025
Critical AI Literacy in Practice
A participatory higher-education workshop designed to turn abstract debates about artificial intelligence into practical questions of judgment and responsibility.
Interactive learning hubOpen now
The Digital Citizenship Hub
A three-part undergraduate learning experience featuring original video lessons and interactive quizzes on access, literacy, culture, and popular culture.
Critical AI literacy seriesOpen now
Ethical AI Integration
Six original video tutorials connecting practical AI use to authorship, evidence, privacy, judgment, and accountability.
An interdisciplinary trajectory
Psychology taught me to think about people.
Education pushed me to think about institutions.
Artificial intelligence forced me to think about power.
I am a doctoral researcher in Curriculum Studies at Western University, working across education, artificial intelligence, and information systems. My path into this work was not a move away from teaching. It was a deeper attempt to understand the structures that shape what teaching can become.
That path has taken me from psychology and writing instruction to critical AI literacy, curriculum research, conference presentations, and organizational questions about technological change. Across those settings, I return to the same concern: people should be able to understand and contest the systems reorganizing their lives.
PsychologyEducationCurriculumInformation systems
Speaking & engagement
Make difficult questions discussable.
Roman brings critical depth without making complexity feel inaccessible—creating rooms where people can question technology honestly and leave with something they can use.
Speaking
Provocative, accessible talks on artificial intelligence, education, digital transformation, and the future of work.
Workshops
Practical and critical sessions that help educators and organizations work with AI without surrendering judgment to it.
Guest teaching
Thoughtful, high-engagement teaching for university classrooms and professional learning environments.
“If Roman spoke with people every time we had an open house, we would have hundreds of students signing up for writing courses.”
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Let's think in public.
For speaking, workshops, guest teaching, research collaboration, or a thoughtful conversation about where artificial intelligence is taking us.
NaghshiRoman@gmail.com