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 moreVisiting fellow with the Oxford Martin School, Professor Sandra Díaz, is to be awarded the 2025 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for her work on understanding and addressing biodiversity loss and its impact on human societies.
The Oxford Martin Programme on Global Epilepsy has worked tirelessly to improve diagnoses in the developing world. On International Epilepsy Day, we explore what potential there is for deploying affordable digital diagnostic tools in such countries and what challenges lie ahead
Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on Wildlife Trade have evaluated the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), asking whether it is solving the problem for which it was designed.
International, national and local partners have been welcomed to the launch of the world’s first centre dedicated to empowering global epilepsy research and care.
The Web was once for everyone. Thirty years ago, the Web was launched as an open, common, universal infrastructure that anyone with a computer and a modem could use to communicate, publish and access information. In recent years, however, it has radically diverged from the values upon which it was founded.
Social narratives around nonhuman life on Earth shape how we interrogate, value and act upon it.
Progressive taxation is a key pillar of democratic societies. But thanks to new research, there is now clear evidence that contemporary tax systems, instead of being progressive, do not effectively tax the wealthiest individuals.
We have entered a new era of increasing ecological scarcity and rising environmental risks - global warming, land use change and biodiversity loss, freshwater scarcity, and deteriorating oceans and coasts. How economies choose to respond to this scarcity challenge is critical to both their sustainability and prosperity.
Our long reads take an in-depth look at the outcomes and impacts of our research programmes
The Oxford Martin School is requesting proposals from eligible academics for solutions-focused research programmes that could have a major impact on this and future generations.
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