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All NewsRE:TV Report - Reconsidering Renewables
Professor Doyne Farmer and Professor Cameron Hepburn talk to RE:TV about how new research is challenging assumptions around the cost of investing in clean energy.
Towards a sustainable plastic future: outreach and discussion
The Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Plastics recently hosted a public panel discussion with experts from chemistry, environment, and law, on the challenges and opportunities in deploying future strategies for tackling the plastic waste problem.
COP 27: a tipping point in the global energy debate
University of Oxford and Harvard academics, politicians and energy industry players have come together to emphasise COP 27’s transformative power as the conversation about renewable energy changes.
Funding applications open for innovations to overcome major contemporary challenges
The Oxford Martin School has opened its latest round of funding, inviting Expressions of Interest for research to develop state-of-the-art innovations to overcome global challenges or to drive their deployment and adoption.
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Forthcoming Events
All Events'The promise and peril of data for global development' with Dean Jolliffe
The unprecedented growth of data and its ubiquity in our lives signals that the data revolution is transforming the world. And yet much of the value of data for global development remains untapped.
'Beyond personalised and toward circuit-customised medicine: targeting molecular "Address Codes" for diverse functional neuron subtypes in the brain' with Prof Jeffrey D. Macklis
Can we do better than small blue pills with overly broad effects in the brain?
'Simulating long run wealth distribution and transmission: the role of inter-generational transfers' with Dr Michele Bavaro
Based on the Italian Treasury Dynamic Microsimulation Model (T-DYMM), whose base year sample refers to 2015 and is derived from survey data with further enrichment from administrative information, this paper simulates individual and household economic trajectories to focus on the long-term transmission mechanisms of wealth inequality via inter-generational transfers.
Book talk 'Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control' with Prof Vili Lehdonvirta
The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online risky business.
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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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COVID-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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Wildlife Trade
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Technological & Economic Change
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Deep Medicine
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Misinformation, Science and Media
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Pandemic Genomics
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Future of Plastics
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Informal Cities
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Agile Initiative
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