Public Lectures

Public Lectures from the Oxford Martin School - featuring prominent speakers from around the world.

Press and Interviews

See our academics talking about their latest work and giving insights into research behind the headlines.

Presentations and Seminars

A wide range of presentations, seminars and lectures from across the Oxford Martin School.

Intelligence Squared

Videos from events held in partnership with Intelligence Squared (IQ2).

Series: Certification

Videos from Lecture Series 2010 Winter - Certification and Sustainability

Series: Intergenerational Justice

Videos from Lecture Series 2011 Spring - Intergenerational Justice: What do we owe future generations?

World Economic Forum

Videos from the WEF Ideaslab series

Oxford University

Partner events with Oxford University

Series: Is the Planet Full?

Videos from Lecture Series 2011 Winter - Is the Planet Full?

Series: Can emerging technologies save the world?

Videos from Lecture Series 2012 Spring - Can emerging technologies save the world?

Questions on the future

Oxford Martin School academics explain how their research is making a difference to our global future.

Series: Ethics and 21st Century Challenges

Videos from Lecture Series 2013 Spring - Ethics and 21st Century Challenges

Policy Exchange/Nesta

Partner events with Policy Exchange/Nesta

Series: Inequality

Videos from Lecture Series 2016 Winter

Commission for Future Generations

Interviews, events and opinion from the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations

Series: Now for the long term

Videos from Lecture Series 2013 Winter

Series: Blurring the lines: the changing dynamics between man and machine

Videos from Lecture Series 2014 Spring

Series: Trusting the crowd: solving big problems with everyday solutions

Videos from Lecture Series 2014 Summer

Series: Care Practices: towards a re-casting of Ethics

Videos from Lecture Series 2014 Winter

Series: Health in the 21st century: what’s new?

Videos from Lecture Series 2014 Winter

Series: Creating a climate for change: what’s at stake in global climate negotiations

Videos from Lecture Series 2015 Spring

Series: Ideas Into Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research

Videos from Lecture Series 2015 Winter

Series: Technology for Tomorrow

Videos from Lecture Series 2016 Spring

Series: Our shared world: reconciling individual and collective needs

Videos from Lecture Series 2016 Summer

Series: New frontiers

Videos from Lecture Series 2017 Spring

Series: The nature of conflict

Videos from Lecture Series 2017 Summer

Series: Strategic Materials for a Low-Carbon Future

Videos from a 2017 conference by the Veolia Institute in partnership with Oxford Martin School.

Series: Great Transitions

Videos from Lecture Series 2017 Winter

Series: Health: fresh perspectives

Videos from Lecture Series 2018 Spring

Series: Science and Populism

Science and Populism: from evidence to narrative

Series: Planetary health: new technologies, ideas and values

Videos from Lecture Series 2018 Winter

Series: Evolving economic thought

Videos from Lecture Series 2019 Spring

James Martin Memorial Lectures

Videos from the James Martin Memorial Lecture Series

Series: Food futures: how can we safeguard the planet's health, and our own?

Videos from the Michaelmas 2019 Lecture Series

Series: Shaping the future

Videos from the Hilary Term 2020 Lecture Series

Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic

The economics of the COVID-19 pandemic

Series: Oxford net zero: climate in the balance

The economics of biodiversity

Future of Cooling COP26 Seminar series

Cooling is necessary for the quality of life of billions of people living across countries.

Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion

Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?

On the 13th November 2021 COP26 reached a consensus on key actions to address climate change. The decisions consist of a range of agreed items, including strengthened efforts to build resilience to climate change, to curb greenhouse gas emissions and to provide the necessary finance for both. In this short series we will look at what this means, after the dust settles, for sustainable finance, tropical forests, modelling the climate and with a panel looking towards future meetings.

Visiting Fellows

African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges

The economic, social and political governance challenges for sub-Saharan Africa remain immense. Despite progress in some health and education indicators, Africa needs more inclusive growth, jobs for its fast-growing population, and better social services and infrastructure. In this series of talks and panel discussions we will be looking at corruption, development, capital flight, regulation and more. This series is in conjunction with the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance