Finding Solutions To The World’s Most Urgent Challenges
The Oxford Martin School brings together the best minds from different fields to tackle the most pressing issues of the 21st century.
Find out moreCOVID-19: our research
Many of the Oxford Martin School’s researchers are involved in the urgent global effort to understand novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and its health, economic and social impacts. Some of our leading researchers are also involved in the UK government response to the pandemic.
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COVID-19: Study shows that travel restrictions are most useful in the early and late phase of an epidemic
Open data is a leap forward in how we tackle global disease outbreaks
COVID–19 has intensified concerns about misinformation. Here's what our past research says about these issues
China's Announcement on Wildlife Trade - What’s New and What Does It Mean?
What is Life? Sir Paul Nurse - 2020 James Martin Memorial Lecture
Contagion: the systemic risks of globalisation
What is Life? Sir Paul Nurse unites history, science and philosophy at the 2020 James Martin Memorial Lecture
Events
View allCANCELLED: 'Resilient infrastructure for a sustainable future' with Grete Faremo & Inger Andersen
Making the right decisions about infrastructure is crucial for sustainable development. Infrastructure is essential to meet human needs for energy, water, mobility and digital connectivity. Yet the wrong infrastructure can have devastating environmental impacts and exacerbate harmful carbon emissions.
POSTPONED: "Data work: the hidden talent and secret logic fuelling artificial intelligence" with Prof Gina Neff
What happens when new artificial intelligence (AI) tools are integrated into organisations around the world?
POSTPONED: ‘The ethics of human challenge studies’ with Prof Julian Savulescu
Purposeful infection of healthy volunteers with a microbial pathogen seems at odds with acceptable ethical standards, but is an important contemporary research avenue used to study infectious diseases and their treatments.
About The Oxford Martin School
This century, specifically the next few decades, is a critical turning point for humanity. Our community of more than 200 academics, work across more than 30 programmes of solutions-focused, pioneering research. We support novel and high-risk projects that often do not fit within conventional funding channels, with the belief that breaking boundaries and innovative collaborations can help to solve the most pressing global challenges of our time.
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Programmes
View allSustainable Oceans
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Global Development
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Illegal Wildlife Trade
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Technological & Economic Change
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Deep Medicine
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Climate Pollutants
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Misinformation, Science and Media
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Pandemic Genomics
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Planetary Health
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