According to findings in exploring pupils’ perspectives on the role of AI in classrooms, teenagers are unclear over appropriate use of AI in their schoolwork.

We conducted research with almost 4,000 13-18-year-olds across the UK, revealing the different approaches that young people take to using AI in their schoolwork, and what roles they see AI playing education鈥攂oth for them and their teachers.

The report follows on from , which was one of the first pieces of UK research to hear directly from young people regarding their views on AI in education.

Dr Alexandra Tomescu

Head of Product AI

“Whilst the research highlights that the appropriate use of AI is still a grey area for students, 颈迟鈥檚鈥�reassuring鈥�to see young听people鈥檚鈥�sophisticated鈥�attitude towards AI. Both the research and qualitative studies show AI is not necessarily a default for all students, and despite being excited about its impact on their education they still inherently value the role of their teachers and look to their school for guidance. It鈥檚 vital therefore that we support teachers with the resources and tools they need to responsibly guide their pupils and harness AI鈥檚 potential in the classroom.鈥�

Read the full report on Navigating AI in Education , and find out more about our updated AI resources and guidance .

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We have been recognized with two awards at the 2026 Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP) EPIC Awards Celebration, held on 28 May in California.

, our knowledge resource for legal professionals and researchers, has won Gold in two categories: Hosting Platform Features and Branding.

The celebrate the remarkable achievements of individuals and teams who are advancing scholarly publishing through creativity, collaboration, and innovation. The Hosting Platform Features category highlights technical innovations that improve how scholarly content is hosted, accessed, and experienced, while the Branding category recognizes outstanding efforts to build and maintain a strong brand identity in scholarly publishing.

Mirkka Jokelainen, Product Portfolio Manager, said:

鈥淚t鈥檚 incredibly rewarding to see Oxford Law Pro recognised across both platform innovation and branding. These awards reflect the collaboration and commitment of colleagues across OUP and our work with Silverchair and Baxter & Bailey. Our shared focus was to deliver real value to legal researchers and professionals.From the AI Research Assistant through to the product鈥檚 identity and positioning, the goal was to create something that is both highly functional and clearly signals what is unique about what OUP can offer. The SSP EPIC Gold Awards celebrate this work.鈥�

About the platform

Launched last year, Oxford Law Pro听brings together more than 9,000 journal articles and over 600 award-winning, peer-reviewed books from our portfolio of authoritative and timely legal analysis, all on our Oxford Academic platform.听

Oxford Law Pro听is powered by a conversational AI research assistant,听, making legal research more efficient without compromising on accuracy. Unlike generic AI search tools,听Oxford Law Pro听employs retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks specifically tuned for legal content, ensuring responses are grounded exclusively in OUP鈥檚 authoritative materials.

The platform equips legal professionals with tools that match the realities of modern practice, and by reducing time spent on initial source identification, the AI assistant allows them to allocate more time to substantive analysis, strategic thinking, and client service.

For many years, we have served the academic market with legal research materials, developing a reputation for publishing the highest quality research from globally respected authors.听. Backed by our research and workshops, a process supported by legal technology expert Jenifer Swallow, we developed product branding and messaging to both reflect our established reputation and resonate with practitioners who may not have encountered OUP before.听

We worked with design agency Baxter & Bailey to develop a strong, modern visual identity, messaging, and a suite of imagery to bring Oxford Law Pro听alive. Congratulations to all involved for this industry recognition.

Find out more about听.

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We are pleased to announce the launch of the first in a series of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, designed to help teachers save time, personalize learning, and navigate some of the biggest challenges faced in the classroom.听

The tool,听, has been developed in partnership with leading global edtech provider , combining our pedagogical expertise with advanced AI technology.

With resource generation at its core,听Plan Assist听works to help teachers to create custom materials, such as lesson plans, glossaries, flashcards, and much more. When generating questions and answers through Avallain鈥檚 technology, it leverages trusted OUP content in the prompts to produce high-quality, curriculum-aligned outputs. By simplifying the planning process, it helps to save time for teachers while delivering results tailored 鈥嬧�嬧�媐or鈥� them and their students.鈥�

Ensuring value through teacher-led testing

The听technology that powers听Plan Assist听has already been recognized in major edtech awards, including BETT and the Learning Technology Awards.

Ahead of launch, we carried out a rigorous research and testing programme involving external subject matter experts, pilot trials with UK and international teachers, and extensive testing across four languages and multiple regions. This ensured the tool is robust, reliable, and provided real value for diverse classrooms, with participating teachers reporting听鈥媡hat听鈥媡he tool provides 鈥�a range of resources to support a teacher successfully in the classroom with ideas, content,听and activities鈥澨�and praising 鈥渋ts ability to instantly rewrite the same content for different audiences鈥�.

Teacher voices driving more effective support

To reflect the realities of classroom life, we gathered feedback from our global teacher network to provide insights into the pressures they are currently facing and what they need from digital platforms to work more efficiently.

Across the responses, three challenges were highlighted in particular:听

• not having enough time and feeling over-stretched (74%)听
• mental health and wellbeing (55%)听
• budget restrictions (54%)听

Alongside these pressures, teachers also outlined what an effective digital platform must offer to truly support their work. Teachers said they needed:听

• The ability to download, adapt, and print ready鈥憁ade teaching and planning resources (56%)听
• Tools to support front鈥憃f鈥慶lass teaching using high鈥憅uality presentations (54%)听
• Functionality to听monitor听and report on student progress (52%)听
• AI features to help create lesson plans and teaching resources (50%)听

They also emphasized the importance of:听

• Immediate, actionable feedback for learners听
• Auto鈥憁arking and data tracking听
• Exam听board or subject specificity听
• Student interactivity and engagement features听

These insights provided a clear picture of the challenges teachers face and the digital capabilities they value most, shaping the focus of our support to ensure all products and services make a real difference.

Fiona Fortes

International Product Director in our Education division

鈥淭eachers everywhere are being asked to do more with less time. By combining OUP鈥檚 trusted content with responsible, innovative AI capabilities, we are giving teachers practical tools that make a real difference in the classroom. At OUP, our focus has always been to lead with learning and ensure that technology is there to support teachers. Our key principles听remain听at the heart of everything we do 鈥� creating resources that have real purpose and a human in听the听loop, while听prioritizing听quality content and pedagogy and safe, ethical use.

As we continue to innovate, we look for opportunities where technology can deliver meaningful, positive change within education, when developed responsibly and in collaboration with our global teaching community.鈥�

Monika Morawska, COO at听Avallain,听said:听

鈥淏uilding on our听expertise听in digital content creation technology and the rich feedback of the 60,000 highly engaged educators actively using our existing AI toolset听TeacherMatic, we are delighted to bring proven, practical, and ethical AI features to more teachers through Plan Assist. Our collaboration with OUP has been one of shared goals and values: putting humans, educational outcomes,听and creative, impactful content first.鈥�听

Plan Assist听will be available on听,听our online learning platform which supports teachers to save time and engage students with a range of resources. It will continue rolling out听to courses听in 2026.

You can find out more about Plan Assist .

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We have been named a finalist for two 2026 EPIC Awards, presented by the .听

, our knowledge resource for legal professionals and researchers, has been nominated for consideration in two categories: Hosting Platform Features and Branding.

The Hosting Platform Features category highlights technical innovations that improve how scholarly content is hosted, accessed, and experienced, while the Branding category recognizes outstanding efforts to build and maintain a strong brand identity in scholarly publishing.

About the platform

Launched less that one year ago,听Oxford Law Pro brings together more than 9,000 journal articles and over 600 award-winning, peer-reviewed books from our portfolio of authoritative and timely legal analysis, all on our Oxford Academic platform.听

Oxford Law Pro is powered by a conversational AI research assistant, , making legal research more efficient without compromising on accuracy. Unlike generic AI search tools,听Oxford Law Pro employs retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks specifically tuned for legal content, ensuring responses are grounded exclusively in OUP’s authoritative materials.

The platform equips legal professionals with tools that match the realities of modern practice, and by reducing time spent on initial source identification, the AI assistant allows them to allocate more time to substantive analysis, strategic thinking, and client service.

The branding

For many years, we have served the academic market with legal research materials, developing a reputation for publishing the highest quality research from globally respected authors.听. Backed by our research and workshops, a process supported by legal technology expert Jenifer Swallow, we developed product branding and messaging to both reflect our established reputation and resonate with practitioners who may not have encountered OUP before.听

We worked with design agency Baxter & Bailey to develop a strong, modern logo and colour palette, bold and confident messaging, and a suite of imagery to bring Oxford Law Pro听alive.

Mirkka Jokelainen, Product Portfolio Manager, said:听

“These nominations recognize and reward the combined efforts of colleagues working with Oxford Law Pro over time. It reflects strong execution underpinned by clear direction, a deep understanding of our users and customers, and the ability to carry that insight through to high-quality delivery enriched by OUP expertise at every step.”

The EPIC Awards celebrate teams and individuals in the publishing, information technology, and communications sectors for their significant contributions to scholarly communication through innovation, creativity, and dedication. Winners of the will be announced on 28 May.听

You can find out more about Oxford Law Pro .

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听is our online interdisciplinary research resource, inviting academics and global experts to investigate the world’s most urgent and challenging subjects from all angles.

As we mark one year since the programme launched, we reflect on the over 300 articles we’ve published since then, covering over 250 subject areas from authors all over the world.

Intersections are organized by topic, inviting ideas from different disciplines to clash, complement, and counterpoint, prompting new viewpoints and questions. Explore some of the original content published so far in our first four topics:

AI in Society

Philipp Hacker, General Editor of AI in Society, and Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society at European University Viadrina:

“AI in Society听investigates AI’s pervasive influence on our economic, legal, personal, and cultural spheres. It takes a unique format, in which contributors from various disciplines collaborate to chart both the promises and societal challenges of AI, with particular attention to generative AI models and their global impact. From my perspective as its General Editor,听AI in Society aims to serve as a reliable reference point for ongoing debates on how to align technological innovation with fundamental rights and societal values.”

Read Philipp’s full article

Borders

Alexander Diener, Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, and Joshua Hagen, Dean of the College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, General Editors of Borders:

“We hope readers will engage Oxford Intersections: Borders to encounter new perspectives on a topics that is elemental to human experience and foundational to the form and function of power.”

Racism by Context

Meena Dhanda, General Editor of听Racism by Context听and Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics at the University of Wolverhampton:

“Combatting racism requires an unflinchingly analytical understanding of the roots, the history, the manifestation, the mechanisms, the proliferation, and the entanglement of its many forms within institutions and practices across all spheres of human interaction.听Racism by Context has undertaken this enormous challenge by bringing into conversation cutting-edge research from different global locations.”

Social Media in Society and Culture

Laeeq Khan, General Editor of Social Media in Society and Culture and Associate Professor in the School of Media Arts & Studies at Ohio University:

“Addressing today’s most pressing challenges requires a new approach to thinking. An interdisciplinary transformative approach can advance knowledge by exploiting and harmonizing the strengths of various disciplines within a unified framework. This approach deepens our collective understanding by bringing together the disparate and sometimes contradictory perspectives of many disciplines, all of which offer valuable insights.”

What’s coming next

In addition to continually developing our published topics, in the next year we’ll be launched intersections for听Environmental Change and Human Experience,听Gender Justice,听Climate Adaptation, and听Cultures of Waste, with many more to come in the following years.

Discover the full collection .

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In March, we announced the launch of Oxford Revise Exam Tutor, an 鈥�鈥�AI-powered tool designed to support GCSE revision.

Developed in association with ExamJam by Atypical AI, a global technology company specializing in assessment, AI tutoring, and generative AI, the digital tutor pilot is free for the 2025 summer exam period and complements the award-winning .

Focused on AQA GCSE Science initially and based on Oxford Revise鈥檚 best-selling 鈥楰nowledge, Retrieval and Practice鈥� approach, Exam Tutor breaks down topics into manageable chunks to aid revision. Throughout the process students are guided by an interactive digital tutor who is on hand for any questions. Over thousands of quick-fire digital flashcards support active retrieval practice and students can tackle exam-style questions and receive instant marking and feedback. The Exam Tutor also provides exam tips, personalized recommendations for further revision, and clear percentage-based tracking.听

The launch of Exam Tutor comes after identified that one in two teenagers found generative AI helped them to understand and learn new things.

Becki Bradshaw, Head of Revision and Test Practice in our Education division, said鈥�鈥�: 鈥淲e know young people are seeking trusted AI revision tools which are based on high-quality, authoritative content. Students and parents alike can be confident that the Exam Tutor harnesses the best in generative AI whilst drawing on our 鈥�鈥�award-winning, expert Oxford Revise Revision Guides. 鈥�鈥�We are committed to ensuring that the Exam Tutor 鈥�鈥�alongside Oxford Revise, remains a trusted companion to revision success and ensures all students are equipped with the tools, skills and confidence to succeed in their exams.鈥�听

Atypical AI’s ExamJam platform is an industry-leading technology solution for the education sector, enabling publishers to bring tailored learning to students, powered by the latest AI.

Bethanie Drake-Maples, Founder and CEO of Atypical AI, notes that our partnership presents the best of human-centred AI for learning: 鈥�By combining our award-winning technology, which focuses on connecting humans and scaling learning science, with 糖心VLOG Press鈥� trusted and high-quality learning materials, 飞别鈥檙别 adapting AI to fit real student needs. Our platform鈥檚 personalized tutoring and assessment tools dynamically adapt to each learner鈥檚 individual strengths and needs, driving a meaningful connection and measurable results, and students and parents are loving it.鈥�听

The Exam Tutor pilot is for AQA Science initially. Students can sign up for free for the summer 2025 exam period .

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We are pleased to have launched Oxford Law Pro, a new knowledge resource for legal professionals and researchers.

Oxford Law Pro brings together more than 9,000 journal articles and over 600 award-winning, peer-reviewed books from our portfolio of authoritative and timely legal analysis, in key areas ranging from technology regulation to intellectual property law. Available alongside this research is听鈥攕hort-form commentary from industry experts about critical topics impacting legal practice, such as environmental science, ESG, and technology.

Oxford Law Pro marks a milestone in our commitment to supporting the legal community by ensuring innovation and excellence in legal research.听

Merel Alstein, Head of Acquisition for Professional & Law, said:听

鈥淲e鈥檙e proud to support legal professionals right from their studies all the way to advising their clients. OUP has a stellar reputation in legal research because of the quality, originality, and breadth of our content. Our books, journal articles, and short form pieces are written by leading practitioners and thinkers in their fields, ensuring that our resources are both deeply reliable and at the cutting edge of new developments.听

鈥淲e are excited to help lawyers, legal advisers, and general counsel speed up their research and further improve the quality of their work.鈥�听

Hosted on , Oxford Law Pro is powered by a conversational AI research assistant, making听legal research more efficient without compromising on accuracy. The tool navigates our quality-assured legal research content to deliver precise summaries, source links, and relevancy scores. It only returns trusted OUP sources, allowing researchers and legal professionals to expand their expertise by interrogating an unrivalled collection of legal research resources.

We have taken a responsible approach to investing in AI capabilities by integrating them into our existing products with a focus on trust, quality, and control, to further our publishing mission. Developed with Silverchair, the assistant is the latest addition to our line of AI-powered tools for researchers.

John Campbell, Product Strategy Director for our Academic division, said:听

鈥淥xford Law Pro strengthens OUP鈥檚 position as a leading legal publisher and represents the qualities 飞别鈥檙别 recognized for: leadership, trust, integrity, and peer-reviewed insight. We want to support a responsible and sustainable future for AI tools in the research community, so we only develop tools that solve the problems of our customers and users.听

鈥淎I tools should work alongside expert human input, identifying the relevant content you need and making your discovery of scholarship quicker, whatever your specialism. With Silverchair, we鈥檝e taken great care in ensuring Oxford Law Pro鈥檚 AI assistant is trustworthy thanks to the experts that are tuning and testing it. It鈥檚 not simply a black box being put in front of customers; it adheres to our editorial reputation and the excellence they expect from our products.鈥�听

Merel continues:听

鈥淔or lawyers, accuracy is everything. Credibility rests on having access to reliable information鈥攔isking hallucinations and bias through low-quality AI tools is not an option. We want to equip legal professionals with original thinking supported by our strong, global academic connections on an easy-to-use platform, with AI tools that work with them. We are excited to see what lawyers can achieve with Oxford Law Pro.鈥�听

You can find out more about Oxford Law Pro .

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The global issues we face today present the world with multi-faceted challenges and demand a corresponding breadth of response and research.听

Recognizing this demand, we are pleased to have published the first topics鈥�AI in Society and Racism by Context鈥攊n our new online series of original, interdisciplinary research, .听

Sophie Goldsworthy, Director of Content Acquisition and Strategy, said:

“We’re excited to be going live with the launch of Oxford Intersections. In today’s polarized world, we believe it is ever more important to bring together the best thinkers and liveliest voices from different fields, to develop a more holistic understanding of the most pressing issues we face, such as the impact of racism and AI. Oxford Intersections provides a new route for researchers to address these challenges, connecting new work across discipline boundaries and underlining its real-world relevance for users of all kinds, from students and scholars to policy- and decision-makers.鈥�

Oxford Intersections takes an expansive approach, drawing on the very best of current research from multiple disciplines, such as political science, philosophy, law, history, and literature. Overseen by a General Editor, each intersection is curated by leading academic and global experts across the humanities and social sciences.听

The AI in Society intersection explores how AI continues to transform the world, addressing challenges such as creativity and the precarity of human connection, and regulatory and governance issues with AI-driven sustainability in the energy sector.听

Philipp Hacker, General Editor of AI in Society and Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society at European University Viadrina, Germany, said:听

鈥淎I is shaping, for better or for worse, every aspect of society, from policymaking to everyday interactions. Understanding its societal impact from a multitude of perspectives and disciplines is critical, which is what AI in Society aims to do.鈥�听

Exploring the layered and multidimensional nature of racism, Racism by Context tackles subjects such as genomics, race and the persistence of health inequities, and the racialization of young Black people鈥檚 bodies in school settings.

Speaking about the important of analyzing these topics through different lenses, Meena Dhanda, General Editor of Racism by Context and Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics at University of Wolverhampton, UK, said:

鈥淐ombatting racism requires an unflinchingly analytical understanding of the roots, the history, the manifestation, the mechanisms, the proliferation, and the entanglement of its many forms within institutions and practices across all spheres of human interaction. Racism by Context has undertaken this enormous challenge by bringing into conversation cutting-edge research from different global locations.听

鈥淭his is the first time that subject experts across a whole range of disciplines have come together to produce a comprehensive understanding of racism. We hope that the research curated informs decision-makers, and stimulates readers to reckon with and imaginatively oppose systemic, structural, and overt racism, wherever it occurs.鈥�听

Further intersections due to launch in 2025 and 2026 include Borders, Environmental Change and Human Experience, Gender Justice, and Social Media in Society and Culture, with over 30 more to follow. New research will be rapidly integrated into each intersection over the course of three years, ensuring readers can access the most comprehensive and current thinking.听

You can access Oxford Intersections via our online platform for academic research, .

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Most academic researchers and research authors say they are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools in their research practice, despite concerns over the loss of critical thinking skills, respect for intellectual property (IP) rights, and mistrust in AI providers.

We recently conducted a across geographies, subject disciplines鈥攊ncluding Humanities, STM, and Social Sciences鈥攁nd different career stages to hear directly from the research community about how they are reacting to and using AI in their work.

The results reveal the key considerations in researchers鈥� decisions to engage with AI, including what excites and concerns them, and how they already use鈥攐r plan to use鈥攖ools already available to them.

At OUP, we are committed to supporting academic researchers in harnessing AI to improve research outcomes and help to protect their role by working closely with technology providers to define clear principles for future collaboration.

Speaking about the research, David Clark, Managing Director of our Academic division, said:

鈥淭hroughout OUP鈥檚 history we have embraced new opportunities offered by technological advancement鈥攊n line with our mission to publish rigorous, high quality academic resources鈥攔esponding to the needs of the academic community, while ensuring that the scholarship we publish remains valued and protected.

鈥淭his research will help us to understand how researchers are thinking about AI and its use in their work. As these technologies continue to rapidly develop, our priority is in working with research authors and the broader research community to set clear standards for how that evolution should take place.鈥�

Speaking on OUP’s commitment to supporting the research community, David Clark added:

“This is a fast-moving, complex area鈥攂ut we strongly believe that publishers like OUP are well positioned to act as a bridge between research authors and tech providers, making a real difference as these tools continue to evolve.

“We are actively working with companies developing LLMs, exploring options for both the responsible development and usage, to not only improve research outcomes, but also recognize the vital role that researchers have鈥攁nd must continue to have鈥攊n an AI-enabled world.鈥�

From June 2024, we will be hosting to delve deeper into the topics covered in our research, bringing together academic research authors from across the world to discuss how those in the research community can work together to build a sustainable, AI-enabled future.

You can read more on this topic from David Clark in on how academic publishers and AI companies do not need to be enemies, and his on how publishers are uniquely positioned to advocate for the protection of researchers and their research within LLMs.

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