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
- Biodiversity and Society
- Changing Global Orders
- Cyber Security
- Ethical Web and Data Architectures
- Future of Development
- Future of Plastics
- Future of Work
- Global Development
- Inequality and Prosperity
- Informal Cities
- Misinformation, Science and Media
- Planetary Health
- Regional Levelling Up
- Science & Society
- Systemic Resilience
- Technological & Economic Change
- Transboundary Resource Management
- Wildlife Trade
- Women’s Equality and Inequality
Latest
‘Managing Future Shocks’ in focus for two new research programmes
The Oxford Martin School has launched two new solutions-focused programmes aiming to support greater resilience in global economic, social and environmental governance in the face of future shocks and crises of all types.
Policy action from world leaders can accelerate a Just energy transition
The 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report insists that we have options in all sectors to at least halve emissions by 2030, but the aim to limit global warming to less than 1.5 degrees is not going to happen unless radical steps are taken.
African Governance: economic, social and political governance challenges explored in new event series.
The economic, social and political governance challenges for sub-Saharan Africa remain immense. In 2018 40% of the population were living below the US$1.90-a-day poverty line, a situation which will have only become worse due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the area is expecting to experience a youth bulge, in the face of growing economic uncertainties.
Can news help? New evidence on the links between news use and misinformation
"Our findings challenge the notion that, by drawing attention to false content, news leave people more misinformed," writes Rasmus Nielsen
upcoming events
'P4 healthcare and precision population health - a transformation of healthcare' with Dr Leroy Hood
25th May 2022: 5:00pm
Registration Required
'Economic growth modeling we need: insights from consistently merging biophysical and post-keynesian approaches in the HARMONEY model' with Dr Carey W. King
26th May 2022: 2:00pm
'Global drivers of tree crown architecture' with Dr Tommaso Jucker
27th May 2022: 4:15pm
Book Talk: 'Envisioning 2060: opportunities and risks for emerging markets' with Harinder Kohli, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Sir Suma Chakrabarti & Ian Goldin
31st May 2022: 12:30pm
Registration Required
people
View allIan Goldin
Professor of Globalisation and Development
Carl Benedikt Frey
Director, Future of Work
Louise Fawcett
Professor of International Relations and Wilfrid Knapp Fellow and Tutor in Politics
Max Roser
Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development
Julian Savulescu
Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics
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
Associate Professor of Global Public Policy