Integrative Programmes

The Oxford Martin School has a unique advantage in addressing 21st century challenges through having created a community of scholars from across the academic disciplinary spectrum.  This makes possible the development of research programmes that can take a particularly intellectually integrative approach to some of the world’s most critical issues.

Examples of some of our most integrative programmes are:

Programme on the Future of Cities - investigating the ways in which cities can be made more flexible to meet the challenges of the next fifty years.

Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology – examining potential social-political impacts of future transformative technologies.

Oxford Geoengineering Programme - using primary research to examine the engineering processes and associated risks of schemes to manipulate the Earth’s climate in the context of key scientific, ethical and governance questions.

Programme on Computational Cosmology - as well as conducting research into processing data and developing more effective complex models, the Programme aims to extend methods developed in astrophysics and cosmology to aid researchers in a diverse range of fields including oceanography, climate science and medicine.

Oxford Martin Programme on Complexity - combining network approaches with methods like agent-based modelling to understand how systems (biological, financial, social) systems evolve dynamically, and respond to changing environments.