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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Sustainable eating is CHEAPER as well as healthier
A study has shown that in countries like America, the UK, Australia and across Western Europe choosing to go vegan, vegetarian, or flexitarian could slash your food bill by up to one-third!
Blood pressure drugs could protect against type 2 diabetes
Researchers suggest lowering blood pressure should be added as a strategy for diabetes prevention
What Delhi’s Drains and Plastics teach us about informality and resilience
The majority of the population in Delhi lives in the “informal city”, which comprises different forms of unplanned settlements.
We must adapt to live with the impacts of climate change
As world leaders meet in Glasgow to make vital decisions on the future of the planet, a new UN report calls for an urgent increase in the financing and action to adapt to the growing impacts of climate change.
Recent Videos
All VideosBook talk: "Exponential: how accelerating technology is leaving us behind and what to do about it" with Azeem Azhar
"The political economy of Nigeria: challenges and opportunities for reform" with Prof Kingsley Moghalu
Ron Emerson & Colin Mayer in conversation: 'Private financing levelling-up: an idea of its time'
Events
All EventsPanel discussion: 'Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change and how can it be fixed?' - In-person attendance fully booked
Rising levels of inequality, social exclusion, environmental degradation and political divisiveness are a of source growing disillusionment with our capitalist system.
LEAP Conference 2021
The fourth LEAP conference, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust Our Planet Our Health programme, will take place on the 6th December 2021.
'A taste of HUM-MUS: Understanding (im)mobility, health and wellbeing and the potential for participatory mobilities planning in Brazil and the UK' with Dr Ben Spencer
Dr Ben Spencer discusses health and mobility in the UK and Brazil.
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
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Global Development
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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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