Events

13th March 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Volcanic eruptions can be very destructive and have significant economic impact. However, active volcanoes are also a source of geothermal energy, and are used to produce heat and electricity in a number of locations around the world. Understanding the risks of a volcanic eruption, and developing geothermal energy resources, requires information about where molten rock and hot water is located underground.

12th March 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History

In this talk, Professor Stefanie Middendorf will scrutinise experiences of crisis and disorder in historical and comparative perspectives.

11th March 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

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.

6th March 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

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.

5th March 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Social narratives around nonhuman life on Earth shape how we interrogate, value and act upon it.

26th February 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School

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.

13th February 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Professor Sir Ian Boyd is a distinguished marine biologist who from 2012 to 2019 was Chief Scientific Advisor at Defra (Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and is currently President of the Royal Society of Biology.

11th February 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

While traditional studies have emphasised the benefits of teamwork, the cost of teams in innovation has been overlooked.

5th February 2025: 6:00pm   Registration Required
Saïd Business School & Online

Global challenges are focusing the minds of leaders across the world: tackling climate change, delivering a successful energy transition, navigating rising trade tensions and AI’s potential (positive and negative) for drastic change.

23rd January 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Conservation is a crisis discipline, and one that is arguably failing. As we face an unprecedented rate of extinction, how do we mainstream biodiversity conservation into global decision-making and sustainable development?

21st January 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

COP29 concluded with a last-minute deal decried as inadequate by developing nations.

28th November 2024: 12:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

In his introductory talk, Professor Behrens will describe his work in land use, food & energy systems, and climate change.

27th November 2024: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

In a world of disruptions and seemingly endless complexity, cities have become – perhaps more than ever – central to thinking about the future of humanity.

21st November 2024: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Following the rise of social networks and the spread of disinformation and misinformation on social media, political scientists, social psychologists, and media scholars have proposed and studied several instruments to slow down propagation of false news.

20th November 2024: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Using examples from the energy transition, climate change mitigation and healthcare, Warren East, former CEO Rolls-Royce & ARM, will explore the interplay of novel technologies and major societal challenges, as well as the obvious and less obvious barriers to the take up of new ideas.

19th November 2024: 12:30pm   Registration Required
Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School

In the People’s Republic of China, a number of social media platforms created in the West, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, are restricted by the Great Firewall.