The Coalition's mission is to advance the use and understanding of ethical AI in education.  With the support of key sponsors and commercial partners, and a launch event at the House of Lords in January 2026, the Coalition focusses on seven key areas for inquiry and research:

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• AI & Digital Pedagogy will examine how AI tools might transform teaching practices, instructional design and classroom interaction patterns. This might include investigating the potential integration of AI-powered learning tools, their possible impact on pedagogical approaches, and the development of new teaching strategies that could effectively leverage AI capabilities. Leader: Lex Lang, Deputy Headteacher, Caterham School

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• Leveraging Data and Generating Insights will explore how schools might effectively utilise the vast data generated through AI systems to inform teaching and learning decisions. This might include investigating potential approaches to data analysis, visualisation and interpretation that could be accessible to educators, as well as examining how data-driven insights might be meaningfully integrated into pedagogical decision-making. Leader: Richard Alton, Deputy Headteacher, Epsom College

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• Business, Operations Systems and AI will explore the strategic integration of AI-enhanced solutions across school, college and trust environments. This will include evaluating how artificial intelligence can streamline administrative workflows, optimise communication networks and facilitate data-driven leadership decisions whilst strengthening operational efficiency. Leader: Helen Anderson, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Meridian Trust

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• Addressing Inequity and the Digital Divide (sponsored by Good Future Foundation) will examine how AI implementation might interact with existing patterns of educational inequality and explore potential strategies to ensure equitable access and outcomes. This might include investigating issues of technological access, digital literacy development, algorithmic bias, and approaches to using AI to potentially reduce rather than reinforce educational disparities. Leader: Rowena Kidd, Deputy Head Teacher, Stretford High School

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• Implementing Innovative AI will explore potential approaches to designing, developing and implementing novel AI applications tailored to specific educational needs. This might include investigating processes for identifying opportunities for innovation, co-designing AI tools with educators and learners, and establishing potential frameworks for effectively integrating new AI solutions into existing educational ecosystems. Leader: Alice King, Associate Principal, Beauchamp College

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• Special Educational Needs and Disability and Personalised Learning will investigate how AI technologies might support individualised learning experiences for students with diverse needs and abilities. This might include examining how AI tools could potentially assist in identifying learning differences, adapting content and assessments to individual requirements, facilitating more accessible learning environments, and empowering educators to deliver more responsive and tailored instruction whilst maintaining high expectations for all learners. Leader: Heba Al-Jayoosi, Inclusion & Research Lead at Mayflower Primary School, Deputy Regional Lead at Whole School SEND

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• Early Years will investigate how AI technologies might enhance developmental learning experiences for children in pre-school and reception settings. This might include examining how age-appropriate AI tools could support play-based learning, language acquisition and early numeracy skills, exploring potential frameworks for introducing digital literacy foundations whilst maintaining priority on physical and social development, and investigating how AI might assist educators in observing, documenting and responding to individual developmental trajectories. Leader: Dan Davies - Assistant Headteacher for Digital Development at Woodland Academy

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Cross-cutting themes of the research include Data, which will be explored with the support of Kings College London's Data Empowerment Clinic, and Assessment, for which the Coalition has partnered with Cambridge OCR.