We are pleased to be able to share our annual report for 2026. It details some of the work we have been doing over the last year – our people, grants, publications and highlights.
In summary, it has been a hugely productive year for us – some highlights have been:
Responsible AI in Education, local and global: our research has supported all sectors of education to engage critically with AI, helping education professionals develop their understanding of responsible AI futures, from Scottish schools to policymaking teams across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia and Pacific regions.
Education infrastructure and AI governance: we have generated essential new critical insights into how AI and EdTech are reconfiguring knowledge, value and labour infrastructures in education.
AI literacy and rights, for children and teachers: we have helped professional teachers develop pedagogy to support data and AI literacy, and helped advance understanding of children’s AI literacy from a rights perspective.
Embodied learning: we have informed how young children can understand and critique personal data through embodied and tangible experiences, and we have done vital critical work on educational genomics as a source of intervention and governance.
Digital futures and imaginaries: we have developed novel theoretical and methodological engagements with the idea of education futures, supporting radical futures thinking across sectors.
Global and decolonial digital education: our research on education in the majority world, among forcibly displaced people and in postcolonial settings has developed new thinking and evidence on equity, access and the value of pluriversal perspectives.
Interdisciplinary and engaged learning spaces: we have researched digital and ‘undisciplined’ learning spaces and surfaced their key challenges and value for learning and for institutions.
Access and download the report here: DE report 2026.
