Jason Lodge

Professor Lodge's research examines the cognitive, metacognitive and emotional processes involved in learning with digital technologies, and how those processes change when generative artificial intelligence enters the learning environment. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles alongside books, book chapters and commissioned reports, in outlets including Nature Reviews Psychology, Computers and Education, Internet and Higher Education and Metacognition and Learning. His work has been cited over 9,000 times and he has been named in the top 2% of scientists worldwide. His research programme has attracted more than $5.3 million in competitive funding.

The most direct line from that research into practice runs through assessment policy. With colleagues, he authored Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence for the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, a framework that now shapes how Australian higher education providers approach assessment integrity and AI, and which is drawn on by institutions, regulators and researchers internationally. It has since been extended by Enacting Assessment Reform in a Time of Artificial Intelligence, which translates the original principles into institutional practice. His work also underpins the Castlereagh Statement, a cross-sector call to action on AI in Australian education and training.

That policy work is supported by advisory roles with UNESCO, the OECD, the National Ministerial Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in Education, and TEQSA. Alongside these, he works directly with universities, schools, education systems and industry on assessment design, learning design and the evidence-informed use of AI, and contributes to public debate through media commentary and writing for general audiences.