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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Filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is unlikely to significantly affect Egypt, but coordinated drought planning is essential
Book Launch "Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years" with Prof Ian Goldin
Dr Julia Giese & Prof Cameron Hepburn in conversation: "A tale of two crises: COVID-19 and the financial system"
Oxford Martin School researchers recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
We need to stop the data economy, before humanity pays the ultimate price
Prof Sarah Smith, Prof Almudena Sevilla & Prof Cameron Hepburn in conversation: "Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic"
'Privacy is Power' with Dr Carissa Veliz & Prof Rasmus Nielsen
Events
View allBook talk: “The ages of globalization” with Prof Jeff Sachs
We are justified to say that we are living through a new age of globalisation, which Professor Jeff Sachs calls the Digital Age. The hugely disruptive changes were already with us before Covid-19, but now we’ve been hurled head-first into the new age.
UK Soft Drink Industry Levy: impact on sugar in drinks, sales, economics and health - with Dr Peter Scarborough & Dr Linda Cobiac
In 2016 the UK Government announced a levy on soft drinks, which was implemented in 2018. The levy is tiered, with no charge for drinks containing less than 5g sugar per 100mL, increasing to 24p per litre for drinks containing more than 8g sugar per 100mL.
Prof Chas Bountra and Prof Sir Charles Godfray in conversation: "Healthcare after the COVID-19 pandemic: the walls are coming down”
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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