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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"British politics after Brexit: reflections on the last three years and the next fifty" with Lord Sumption
How can business achieve a “nature-positive economy”
"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
Events
View all'Marginally stable economies?' with Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Our understanding of so-called “complex systems” has made giant leaps forward in the last 40 years, due in particular to a flurry of activity in statistical physics, theoretical ecology, computer science and mathematics.
'The body as an ageing thing' with Dr Chris Gilleard
This seminar is part of the series 'The construction of ageing', co-hosted by The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, Oxford’s Humanities and Healthcare programme and the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life.
"Pyrrhic progress: the history of antibiotics in Anglo-American food production" with Dr Claas Kirchhelle
In this book talk, Claas will review central findings of his research on the past 80 years of antibiotic use, resistance, and regulation in food production with introduction by Prof Mark Harrison, Director of Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities.
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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