Society
The mission of the School is to tackle the most pressing global challenges of this century. Understanding how societies are structured, how they interact, how people behave and what motivates them is crucial to understanding how to chart a course to a better future.
- African Governance
- Ageing Populations
- AI Governance Initiative
- AI Threat Detection
- Biodiversity and Society
- Changing Global Orders
- Cyber Security
- Digital Pandemic Preparedness
- Ethical Web and Data Architectures
- Future of Development
- Future of Plastics
- Future of Work
- Global Development
- Rethinking Natural Resources
- Science & Society
- Systemic Resilience
- Technological & Economic Change
- Wildlife Trade
Latest
Delivering a better-informed wildlife trade
"Nobel Prize for Environment" awarded to Visiting Fellow Sandra Diaz
Visiting 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.
A cautiously optimistic future for affordable epilepsy diagnosis
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
Wildlife Trade researchers urge reforms to global regulations as CITES turns 50
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.
upcoming events
Agile Initiative Showcase: 'Putting science into action: building a research system to address environmental crises'
20th March 2025: 9:30am
Registration Required
'Adventures in Volcanoland' with Tamsin Mather
29th March 2025: 4:00pm
'As if Human: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence' with Nigel Shadbolt
31st March 2025: 2:00pm
'The Morality of Artificial Intelligence' with Daniel Susskind, Carissa Veliz and Linda Eggert chaired by David Edmonds
1st April 2025: 6:00pm
people
View allIan Goldin
Professor of Globalisation and Development
Carl Benedikt Frey
Director
Louise Fawcett
Professor of International Relations and Wilfrid Knapp Fellow and Tutor in Politics
Max Roser
Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development
Patricia Clavin
Professor of Modern History
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Professor of the International Politics of Africa
Andrew Thompson
Professor of Global and Imperial History
Andrew Hurrell
Senior Research Fellow in International Relations
Senia Paseta
Professor of Modern History
Sloan Mahone
Associate Professor of the History of Medicine at Oxford University
Thomas Hale
Professor of Global Public Policy
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