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 moreLatest from the school
All NewsUNDP and Oxford Martin Programme to host workshop on Adapting International Institutions
A new workshop aims to support the next generation of Human Development Research
Oxford Martin School project leads to £8.7m UKRI investment in energy demand observatory
The new Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory (EDOL) will scale the use of household energy data to understand how, why, and when domestic activity is impacting energy demand and associated carbon emissions.
Dame Angela McLean announced as new UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor
Operation Pangolin launches to save world’s most trafficked wild mammal
Researchers and conservationists are embarking on a bold initiative to save the world’s most trafficked wild mammal — the pangolin.
Oxford Martin School In the press
Upcoming Events
All Events'Sharing the benefits from the global commons: deep-seabed mining' with Prof Dale Squires
Benefits from the global commons, including from vaccines and deep-seabed, celestial, fishing, genetics, and polar resources, require sharing, but how?
'Technological change, the future of jobs and development' with Prof Joseph E. Stiglitz
Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz will examine the impact of rapid technological change on employment and livelihoods.
'Remote work across jobs, companies, and space' with Dr Bledi Taska
The COVID-19 pandemic propelled an enormous uptake in hybrid and fully remote work.
Book Talk: 'Ravenous: how to get ourselves and our planet into shape' with Henry Dimbleby
You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat.
Go Deeper
Our long reads take an in-depth look at the outcomes and impacts of our research programmes
Recent Videos
All VideosAbout 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.
Find out more
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.
Find out moreProgrammes
View allGlobal Development
Find out more
Wildlife Trade
Find out more
Technological & Economic Change
Find out more
Deep Medicine
Find out more
Misinformation, Science and Media
Find out more
Pandemic Genomics
Find out more
Future of Plastics
Find out more
Informal Cities
Find out more
Agile Initiative
Find out more