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.
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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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How Natural Resource (Mis-)management in the Nile River Basin May Threaten Stability
Masters graduate wins climate intervention prize with central banks proposal
The Future of Plastics: How do we move to a new plastics economy? Webinar
"Recipes for transforming food production and beyond" with Paul Clarke, CTO Ocado
Democracies have responded more effectively to COVID-19 than autocracies, study shows
Addressing the plastics problem
Proactive engagement to understand and address wildlife trade in an unsettled world
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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
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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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