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
- Cyber Security
- Future of Plastics
- Future of Work
- Global Development
- Illegal Wildlife Trade
- Inequality and Prosperity
- Informal Cities
- Misinformation, Science and Media
- Planetary Health
- Science & Society
- Technological & Economic Change
- Transboundary Resource Management
Latest
COVID–19 has intensified concerns about misinformation. Here's what our past research says about these issues
Contagion: the systemic risks of globalisation
What is Life? Sir Paul Nurse unites history, science and philosophy at the 2020 James Martin Memorial Lecture
German Federal Minister of Finance explores job automation and innovation with Future of Work programme
Bank of England chief economist lays out the costs of income insecurity for UK households
"British politics after Brexit: reflections on the last three years and the next fifty" with Lord Sumption
"A world without work: technology, automation and how we should respond" with Daniel Susskind
upcoming events
CANCELLED: 'Resilient infrastructure for a sustainable future' with Grete Faremo & Inger Andersen
1st April 2020: 4:00pm
POSTPONED: "Data work: the hidden talent and secret logic fuelling artificial intelligence" with Prof Gina Neff
28th April 2020: 5:00pm
Registration Required
POSTPONED: ‘The ethics of human challenge studies’ with Prof Julian Savulescu
29th April 2020: 5:30pm
POSTPONED: 'A new typhoid vaccine' with Prof Andrew Pollard & Dr Virginia Pitzer
18th May 2020: 5:30pm