Who we are

A Network of AI Expertise

Together, AIME's Co-founders draw on a wide network of Cambridge PhD researchers, with backgrounds in History, Computer Science, Psychology, Education, Biology, English Literature, Digital Humanities, and Entrepreneurship, all at the forefront of the application of AI in their respective fields. Our knowledge stems from 'in the trenches' experience at the very edge of current practice in AI across industry and education.

Co-founders

Jacob Forward

Co‑founder · Director

Jacob is the Director of AIME. He also serves as Lead Tutor on the Generative AI in Business course for Cambridge University Press. He is a King's Entrepreneurship Lab graduate, a Cambridge Digital Humanities Methods Fellow, and a PhD student in the Faculty of History, specialising in advanced applications of AI in humanities research.

Jacob previously read for an MPhil in American History at Cambridge (King's College), and a BA in History at Oxford (Keble College). He has worked for History & Policy at the Institute for Historical Research and consulted on research projects at the School of Advanced Study (SOAS).

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Megan Ennion

Co‑founder · Head of Research

Megan is the Head of Research at AIME. She is a Cambridge PhD researcher specialising in the behavioural and educational impact of generative AI. She leads the AI & Education Community at the Faculty of Education and is a researcher with the Digital Education Futures Initiative at Hughes Hall, where she also teaches on AI literacy courses.

Megan won both a Novel Applications of AI for Research & Innovation Grant and an Impact Accelerator Grant for her doctoral research, with related work published in Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning. She has a background in law, psychology, and education.

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Advisors

The researchers and educators who shape AIME's work

Our advisors are a team of researchers and educators who each have decades of experience in teaching and educational leadership.

Jonathan Sansom

AI for Educators Advisor

Jonathan is an education and digital strategy leader working in the UK sixth form sector. He leads digital strategy at a large sixth form college of 3,000 16–18-year-old students, with a focus on how technology, pedagogy and organisational culture can work together to improve learning.

He has designed, tested and deployed GenAI tools at scale, supporting both effective pedagogy and backend college services. He has spoken widely on AI, digital strategy and education, including at Jisc Digifest, the Sixth Form Colleges Association Annual Conference, the Maple Group, Form the Future, the Further Education Partnership Network, and the National Conference on GenAI in Education at Ulster University, where he delivered a keynote on educator-led GenAI design.

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Luke Ramsden

AI and Safeguarding Advisor

Luke is an award-winning Senior Deputy Headmaster and Director of Safeguarding for the St Benedict's family of schools. In September of this year he is taking up the position of Headmaster at St John's College, Cardiff.

Named NAPCE Pastoral Leader of the Year 2021–22, he has worked with technology companies to develop practical safeguarding software, and he writes and speaks regularly on education leadership, pastoral care, and the ethical use of AI in schools. He also chairs the Schools Consent Project charity and advises the Global Equality Collective among other organisations that he works with.

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Sam Cooke

AI and Education Strategy Advisor

Since 2022, Sam has served as Assistant Head of the Under School at Charterhouse where he has overseen pastoral and academic matters for Years 9–11 as well as Partnership work, Innovation and Digital Strategy, including the institution's strategic approach to technology use in all areas of school life.

Sam has over twenty years' experience in boarding schools teaching Philosophy and Religious Studies at Kingswood School, Bath, before moving to Cranleigh School, Surrey, where he developed experience in a variety of school leadership positions including Head of Department, Chaplain, and Housemaster. In September 2026, he will be taking up the role of Senior Deputy Head at King Edwards School Whitely, overseeing the day-to-day operations of School life.

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We believe that AI is in the process of fundamentally reshaping the worlds of education and work. High-quality AI literacy education is a necessity to secure the future flourishing of humanity.