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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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"A world without work: technology, automation and how we should respond" with Daniel Susskind
Professor Steve Rayner (1953-2020)
Alice in Typhoidland: story of Oxford’s role in fighting typhoid told in new exhibition
Air travel could spread Wuhan pneumonia to further international locations
Professor Steve Rayner announced as 2020 Paradigm Award winner
How we worked with the New Scientist on its Veganuary experiment
New Year's Honour for Professor Sarah Whatmore
Events
View all'Escaping the backtesting illusion: An application of evolutionary finance' with Prof Klaus Schenk-Hoppé
Two tests can help asset managers to develop more robust investment strategies: an impact test and a survival test. Both tests complement the backtest where one checks how a proposed investment strategy would have performed in the past.
FULLY BOOKED: "British politics after Brexit: reflections on the last three years and the next fifty" with Lord Sumption
Lord Sumption will discuss the impact on our constitution and political system of the referendum of 2016 and its aftermath.
'Neural evolution of context-dependent fly song' with David Stern
It is unclear where in the nervous system evolutionary changes tend to occur. To localize the source of neural evolution that has generated divergent behaviours, a new approach has been developed to label and functionally manipulate homologous neurons across Drosophila species.
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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