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 moreThe Oxford Martin School brings together the best minds from different fields to tackle the most pressing issues of the 21st century.
Find out moreThis 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 moreThe Oxford Martin School is sad to learn of the death of Professor Stephen Castles.
Researchers from the University of Oxford, the University of Queensland and Princeton University, have developed a new model for businesses to measure their progress to meet the Paris Agreement, discovering that some companies are not on track to meet net zero by 2050 despite public statements and climate commitments.
This is the first time a transparent and reproducible method has been developed to assess the environmental impacts of multi-ingredient products.
There is an urgent need to substantially reduce the environmental impacts of the global agricultural system while ensuring sufficient food for an estimated population of 10 billion by 2050.
Understanding the dynamics of carbon and biodiversity across the world’s tropical forests and how these change with our changing climate requires global teamwork and a multidisciplinary approach.
We know that flourishing communities and good work sits at the heart of good lives and wealthy societies.
Our long reads take an in-depth look at the outcomes and impacts of our research programmes
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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