Student-led research builds skills for life. Our new skills tracker shows the technical and transferable skills that students can gain across each IRIS project.

IRIS stands ready to support the education sector in translating these intentions into meaningful classroom practice. We will continue to work alongside teachers, researchers and policymakers to ensure that real research opportunities are not an optional extra, but an integral part of a modern, world-class education.  

Our director, Jo Foster, is already seeing students use AI as part of scientific research, and believes they can be at the heart of the government’s latest AI ambitions.