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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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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Latest from the school
All NewsCan a creative approach help fix the plastics problem?
In a recent exhibition at The Design Museum, London, a new generation of designers sought to rethink our relationship to everyday things – with a little help from polymer science.
£10mn backing for fast-paced research on environmental policy questions
The Agile Initiative at the Oxford Martin School has been established with funding from the Natural Environment Research Council to provide rapid solutions to critical environmental issues.
Professor Sir Paul Collier appointed to UK Government's Levelling Up Advisory Council
The Advisory Council will be charged with providing independent expert advice to the Government on matters relating to the design and delivery of levelling up.
COP26: successes, lessons and what’s next explored in new event series
Many people believed that the 26th meeting of the UN’s global climate summit (COP26) hosted in Glasgow in November 2021 was the world’s last best chance to get runaway climate change under control.
Events
All Events'From degenerative to regenerative businesses' with Jonathan Rose
Businesses have played a significant role in degrading the social, economic, ecological, and governance commons, but they can play an equal role in restoring them through the development of seven regenerative qualities?
"Forest dynamics in a changing world" with Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert
Forest dynamics dictate the terrestrial carbon sink generated by the disequilibrium between biomass productivity and biomass loss via tree mortality.
"Artificial Intelligence: A New Age Dawns. Just How Terrified Should We Be?" - Carissa Veliz Interviewed by Stephen Law
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.
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Wildlife Trade
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Technological & Economic Change
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Deep Medicine
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Misinformation, Science and Media
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Pandemic Genomics
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Future of Plastics
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Informal Cities
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Agile Initiative
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