Research-Grade AI: What It Means for Your Institution and Your Research Outcomes

What if AI could accelerate research discovery without compromising trust?

Recent findings from Elsevier’s Researcher of the Future Report 2025 show that while 84% of researchers are already using AI, only 22% fully trust it. For institutions across Australia and New Zealand, this highlights a growing challenge: how to harness AI while ensuring transparency, reliability, and most importantly research integrity.

This session will explore what “research-grade AI” really means in practice – how it can support more effective research workflows, strengthen collaboration, and enable institutions to meet rising expectations around trust and responsible AI use.

Using platforms like LeapSpace as a practical example, we will look at how AI can be embedded into the research process in a way that supports critical thinking, not just faster outputs.

Powered by Scopus and and drawing on publisher-neutral full text and abstracts, LeapSpace is the research-grade AI-assisted workspace that lets researchers work faster, think deeper and achieve more – all in one secure environment.

Join us on 12 May to:

- Explore how research-grade AI, combined with human expertise, can enhance research workflows, streamline discovery, and improve confidence in results

- Understand how libraries and research offices can empower researchers to collaborate, identify funding sources and accelerate insights generation

- Understand why research-grade AI matters now as institutions navigate increasing research demands, information overload, and growing expectations around trust, transparency, and responsible AI