SAGE-R · A4 poster
SAGE-R at a glance
Use, Own and Defend across the research lifecycle, with guidance for candidates by stage and the checks supervisors can model.
Structured AI-Guided Education for Research
Downloads
The SAGE-R guide, the paper that sets out the framework, and resources to print or reuse. All SAGE-R materials are released under CC BY 4.0.
The HDR guide · Version 1.0 · November 2026
SAGE-R Guide to Generative and Agentic AI in Graduate Research
A practical guide for higher degree research candidates, supervisors and graduate schools on using generative and agentic AI while keeping every research claim the candidate's own. Part A sets out the framework, Part B is written for candidates with five case studies and seven worked examples, and Part C is written for supervisors with prompts and actions across eight candidature milestones.
Cite as: M. Elkhodr and E. Gide, SAGE-R Guide to Generative and Agentic AI in Graduate Research, version 1.0, Zenodo, 2026, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23873940.
Posters
Single-page posters for noticeboards, induction sessions and supervision meetings. Each prints cleanly on A4.
Research security · A4 / A3 poster
Protect your research in the AI era
Eight questions to ask before sharing unpublished work with an AI tool, from protecting the core contribution to fencing in AI agents.
Figures
High-resolution figures for teaching, presentations and induction materials, released under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to Elkhodr and Gide (2026).
The SAGE-R paper
Supervising AI-mediated research: the SAGE-R framework for accountable research ownership
Read the paper
The peer-reviewed article that sets out the SAGE-R framework: knowledge support and epistemically consequential judgement, the three stages of Use, Own and Defend, and distributed assurance across candidature.
M. Elkhodr and E. Gide, Frontiers in Education, vol. 11, Art. no. 2030368, 2026, doi: 10.3389/feduc.2026.2030368.
Printable guidance
Each page below has a print button that produces a clean, printer-friendly version, which can also be saved as a PDF.
Candidate guidance
Open and print The framework for candidates, the self-check, the work of Own and seven worked examples by research task.
Six actions: one-page reminder
Open and print The six actions for every AI-assisted research task, tagged by stage, on a single page.
Supervisor guidance
Open and print Modelling the self-check, how Defend works, and supervisor actions across eight milestones.
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