Oxford Martin School
The Oxford Martin School was founded as the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford in 2005 through the vision and generosity of Dr James Martin. The School is a unique, interdisciplinary research initiative addressing key global future challenges. In 2009, a $50 million matched funding challenge was initiated by Dr James Martin. The Challenge was an unprecedented success, matching the donations of 30 different donors (individual philanthropists, charities, corporations and research bodies) and creating 19 new research programmes to join membership of the School. As a result of this expansion, the School relaunched under the new name of Oxford Martin School in Autumn 2010.
A key aim of the School is to mitigate the most pressing risks and realise exciting new opportunities of the 21st century. With interdisciplinary teams of researchers from across the university, the School is working on the frontiers of knowledge in four broad areas: health and medicine; energy and environment; technology and society; and ethics and governance. Aiming to have an impact beyond academia, the School also develops wide-ranging initiatives, intellectual programmes and public events to engage with national and international policymakers, business, students and the general public.
Series associated with Oxford Martin School
Big Questions For The Future
Blurring the lines: the changing dynamics between man and machine
Can emerging technologies save the world? Hilary Term Seminar Series 2012
Certification and Sustainability
Complexity and Systemic Risk: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2010
Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009
Global Catastrophic Risks Conference 2008
Human Rights and the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Challenges and prospects
Intergenerational Justice: What do we owe future generations?: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2011
Is the planet full? Seminar Series 2011
Oxford Food Governance Group: The Politics and Practices of Food
Oxford Martin School Series: Food Futures
Oxford Martin School: Interviews and Commentaries
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
Science - Post-Normal Perspectives - Jerry Ravetz at 90
Wildlife Trade Symposium: Evolving Perspectives on the demand for illegal wildlife products
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| 1 | Clouds and climate | Tapio Schneider discusses the influence of clouds on climate, and how advances in the modelling of clouds can help us predict our climate future more accurately. | Tapio Schneider | 06 Jan 2020 | |
| 2 | Creative Commons | Nano comes to life: how nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology | n this book talk, Professor Sonia Contera will talk about how Nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology. | Sonia Contera | 06 Dec 2019 |
| 3 | Why we need a fourth revolution in healthcare | William bird discusses how healthcare focused on communities and acitve lifestyles can lead to greater wellbeing. | William Bird | 06 Dec 2019 | |
| 4 | Plant genetics from Mendel to Monsanto | Ottoline Leyser discusses the ability to target and/or select specific genetic changes in plant genomes, and the impact of this on the governance of our food system. | Ottoline Leyser | 06 Dec 2019 | |
| 5 | Creative Commons | Psychologically informed micro-targeted political campaigns: the use and abuse of data | Data-driven micro-targeted campaigns have become a key part of political strategy. As personal and societal data becomes more accessible, we need to understand how it can be used and whether it is relevant to regulate political candidates' access to data. | Jens Koed Madsen | 04 Dec 2019 |
| 6 | Creative Commons | The technology trap - capital, labour and power in the age of automation | Carl Frey discusses his book 'The Technology Trap' | Carl Benedikt Frey | 04 Dec 2019 |
| 7 | Creative Commons | Diet, obesity and health: from science to policy | Susan Jebb discusses how science and policy can help us make wiser choices for our health. | Susan Jebb | 04 Dec 2019 |
| 8 | Creative Commons | Migration: the movement of humankind from prehistory to the present | Robin Cohen discusses migration throughout history and in the present day. | Robin Cohen | 02 Dec 2019 |
| 9 | Creative Commons | Linking people, nature, food and climate: progress and implications | David Nabarro, former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Food Security and Nutrition, will give a talk on what implications there will be for the planet and us in linking nature, food and the climate. | David Nabarro | 02 Dec 2019 |
| 10 | Ending energy poverty: reframing the poverty discourse | The President of the Rockefeller Foundation discusses the need for new solutions for energy transformation and economic development. | Rajiv J. Shah | 27 Nov 2019 | |
| 11 | Creative Commons | Sustainability scenarios for the global food and land-use system | Michael Obersteiner presents new insights from co-producing a set of new sustainability scenarios. | Michael Obersteiner | 27 Nov 2019 |
| 12 | Review and conclusion | Silvio Funtowicz chairs the final review and conclusion, with comments from Jerry Ravetz. | Silvio Funtowicz, Jerry Ravetz | 08 Jul 2019 | |
| 13 | The future of policy-mathematics | Panel discussion and presentations on the future of policy mathematics. With Presentations by Maurice Chiodo and Zora Kovacic. With a response by Jerry Ravetz. Chaired by Andrea Saltelli. | Maurice Chiodo, Zora Kovacic, Jerry Ravetz, Andrea Saltelli. | 08 Jul 2019 | |
| 14 | The future of post-normal science | Panel discussion and presentations on post-normal science. With presentations by Dan Sarewitz (via Skype), Marta Struminska and Jeroen van der Sluijs. With a response by Jerry Ravetz. Chaired by Roger Strand. | Dan Sarewitz), Marta Struminska, Jeroen van der Sluijs, Jerry Ravetz | 08 Jul 2019 | |
| 15 | The future of science | Panel presentations on the future of science, with presentations by Peter Gluckman, Ehsan Masood and Andrea Saltelli with a response from Jerome Ravetz. Chaired by Javier Lezaun. | Peter Gluckman, Ehsan Masood, Andrea Saltelli, Jerome Ravetz | 08 Jul 2019 | |
| 16 | Welcome and brief statements | Welcome to the event, with presentations from Charles Godfray and Rob Iliffe. Chaired by Silvio Funtowicz. | Charles Godfray, Rob Iliffe, Silvio Funtowicz | 08 Jul 2019 | |
| 17 | Creative Commons | New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene | Prof Beinhocker will argue that by changing the ideologies, narratives, and memes that govern our economic system, we can create the political space required to rapidly transform to a sustainable and just economic system. | Eric Beinhocker | 24 Jun 2019 |
| 18 | Creative Commons | From pollution to solution: will China save the planet? | Barbara Finamore discusses whether China will take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe. | Barbara Finamore, Radhika Khosla | 24 Jun 2019 |
| 19 | Creative Commons | The future of the corporation, economy and society | Professor Sir Paul Collier and Professor Colin Mayer CBE will share the latest thinking and research into the future of capitalism and the corporation to understand how business might be changed to make it work better for society. | Colin Mayer, Paul Collier | 19 Jun 2019 |
| 20 | Creative Commons | Protecting the high seas (Oxford Green Week talk) | As part of Oxford Green Week, Prof Alex Rogers and Dr Gwilym Rowlands discuss the importance of protecting the high seas, and how marine protection areas can be enforced. | Alex Rogers, Gwilym Rowlands | 19 Jun 2019 |
| 21 | Creative Commons | Changing technology, changing economics | Prof Diane Coyle discusses how digital technologies are changing economics. | Diane Coyle | 14 Jun 2019 |
| 22 | Creative Commons | Is the human species slowing down? | Prof Danny Dorling discusses the idea that that humanity is slowing down in almost everything that we do, and what this means for our future. | Danny Dorling | 14 Jun 2019 |
| 23 | Creative Commons | Navigating knowledge: new tools for the journey | Like the wind, knowledge can be difficult to see or grasp, but if well-harnessed, it can help us do extraordinary things. | Penny Mealy | 11 Jun 2019 |
| 24 | Creative Commons | Unlocking digital competition | Is competition in the digital economy desirable? Does it currently exist? Is it possible? Is there anything policy can do? | Jason Furman | 11 Jun 2019 |
| 25 | Creative Commons | From global to local - the relationship between global climate and regional warming | Professor David Battisti, The Tamaki Endowed Chair of Atmospheric Sciences, will be talking about global climate sensitivity controlling regional warming uncertainty and its role in impacting on human health, particularly heat stress. | David Battisti | 04 Jun 2019 |
| 26 | Creative Commons | City region food systems: potential for impacting planetary boundaries and food security | Dr Mike Hamm will explore the opportunity for regional food systems in-and-around cities for mutual benefit. | Michael Hamm | 30 May 2019 |
| 27 | Creative Commons | How complexity can resolve the crisis in economics | Professor Doyne Farmer will discuss the constraints of current economic models and propose complexity economics as a solution. | J Doyne Farmer | 30 May 2019 |
| 28 | Africa in transformation: economic development in the age of doubt with Prof Carlos Lopes | Carlos Lopes will deliver an overview of the critical development issues facing the African continent today. | Carlos Lopes | 13 May 2019 | |
| 29 | What now? Next steps on climate change | The Paris Agreement was a seminal moment in the world's struggle to fight climate change, but Christiana believes that the climate agreement was just a staging post in what remains a long, hard process. So what are the next steps? | Christiana Figueres | 19 Nov 2018 | |
| 30 | Evolving perspectives on the demand for illegal wildlife products | Discussion and conclusions from the symposium, with, Ming Lee, Principal Investigator, Sun Yat-sen University, Wildlife trade issues in China and Southeast Asia, Bob Smith,Director, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), | Naomi Doak, Ming Lee, Bob Smith, E J Milner-Gulland | 28 Nov 2017 | |
| 31 | Theme 3 panel Q and A: Changing wildlife consumption onto a legal, sustainable path | Panel discussion on theme 3 of the symposium. With Deborah Hembury, Rachel Ash, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Lixin Huang, American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Anastasiya Timoshyna, Programme Leader, Medicinal Plants, TRAFFIC. | Deborah Hembury, Lixin Huang, Anastasiya Timoshyna, Rachel Ash | 28 Nov 2017 | |
| 32 | Traditional Chinese medicine and illegal wildlife trade | Lixin Huang, American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, givesa talk for the symposium on traditional Chinese medicine and common misconceptions about it. | Lixin Huang | 28 Nov 2017 | |
| 33 | Human and conservation benefits through sustainable trade in wild plants | Anastasiya Timoshyna, Programme Leader, Medicinal Plants, TRAFFIC, gives a talk for the symposium on her research on sustainable wildlife trade. | Anastasiya Timoshyna | 28 Nov 2017 | |
| 34 | Theme 2 panel Q and A: Linking supply and demand for wildlife products | Panel discussion looking at theme 2 of the symposium. With Professor David Macdonald, founding Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Hollie Booth, Sharks and Rays Advisor, SE Asia Archipelago, WCS Indonesia, | David Macdonald, Michael ‘t Sas-Rolfes, P Siriwat, Hollie Booth | 28 Nov 2017 | |
| 35 | Theme 1 panel Q and A: Diverse approaches to illegal wildlife trade research | Panel discussion looking at the first theme's panel. With Kelly Malsch, Head of Species Programme, UNEP WCMC, Steven Broad, Executive Director, TRAFFIC, Elizabeth Davis and Joss Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University. | Joss Wright, Kelly Malsch, Steven Broad, Elizabeth Davis | 28 Nov 2017 | |
| 36 | Down to the bone: South Africa’s lion trade conundrum | Michael 't Sas-Rolfes, fellow of the Oxford Martin Programme on Illegal Wildlife Trade, gives a talk for the symposium on his research on South Africa's lion trade. | Michael 't Sas-Rolfes | 28 Nov 2017 | |
| 37 | Not by legality alone: Addressing shark overexploitation in Indonesia | Hollie Booth, Sharks and Rays Advisor, SE Asia Archipelago, WCS Indonesia, gives a talk for the symposium on her research in Indonesia and the overexploitation of sharks. | Hollie Booth | 28 Nov 2017 | |
| 38 | Mapping the emerging online trade | Joss Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the symposium on mapping the online illegal wildlife trade. | Joss Wright | 28 Nov 2017 | |
| 39 | Exploring cultural values and preferences | Elizabeth Davies gives a talk for the symposium exploring cultural values and preferences surrounding the illegal wildlife trade. | Elizabeth Davies | 28 Nov 2017 | |
| 40 | Catalysing social and behavior change: Steven Broad | Steven Broad Executive Director, TRAFFIC, gives a talk for the symposium on creating and catalysing social and behavioural change. | Steven Broad | 27 Nov 2017 | |
| 41 | Theme 1: Diverse approaches to illegal wildlife trade research: Kelly Malsch | Kelly Malsch, Head of Species Programme at UNEP-WCMC introduces herself as the moderator for the first theme of the day, Diverse approaches to illegal wildlife trade research, as well as the speakers who will present. | Kelly Malsch | 27 Nov 2017 | |
| 42 | Welcome and opening remarks and Introduction to Open Space | E.J. Milner-Gulland, Co-Director of Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade welcomes delegates to the programme's first symposium, co-hosted by San Diego Zoo Global and TRAFFIC. | Jenny Glikman, E J Milner-Gulland | 27 Nov 2017 | |
| 43 | 'The global refugee crisis and what to do about it' - Rt Hon David Miliband | At a time of heightened political tension and policy confusion about the refugee crisis, this lecture explores why record numbers of people are fleeing their homes; what conditions they are living in; and what should be done to help them. | David Miliband | 27 Feb 2017 | |
| 44 | Creative Commons | Climate change: what science and the IPCC report has to say | Nick Eyre and Myles Allen give a talk for the Oxford Martin School on climate change and the IPCC report. | Myles Allen, Nick Eyre | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 45 | Creative Commons | Biodiversity and climate change: what happens when we turn up the heat on nature? | Dr Nathalie Seddon, Director of the Biodiversity Institute, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. | Nathalie Seddon | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 46 | Creative Commons | The ‘perfect storm’ revisited: food, energy and water security in the context of climate change | Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, gives a talk on climate change | John Beddingham | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 47 | Creative Commons | Climate change and our oceans | Professor Gideon Henderson, Professor of Earth Sciences, and Professor David Marshall, Professor of Physical Oceanography, will explore the role of oceans in climate change. | Gideon Henderson, David Marshall | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 48 | Creative Commons | Hopes and fears: why people disagree about how to tackle climate | In this seminar Dr Rob Bellamy, James Martin Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, will explore how and why people disagree about how to tackle climate change. What hope then is there for a global political agreement in Paris 2015? | David Marshall | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 49 | Creative Commons | Climate change: dealing with uncertainty | In this talk Professor Tim Palmer CBE, Co-Director of the Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. | Tim Palmer | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 50 | Creative Commons | Rich and poor: a cause for social unrest? at the Oxford Literary Festival 2015 | John Kampfner and Katrine Marçal discuss the growing gap between rich and poor and its implications for society, chaired by Professor Ian Goldin. | John Kampfner, Ian Goldin, Katrine Marcal | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 51 | Creative Commons | The future of Africa at the Oxford Literary Festival 2015 | Three authors with recent books on Africa discuss the future of the continent and answer questions from the audience under the watchful eye of the director of the Oxford Martin School, Professor Ian Goldin. | Martin Meredith, Jonny Steinberg, Tom Burgis | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 52 | Creative Commons | The limits of human performance and artificial intelligence | In this new Oxford talk, Garry Kasparov, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, turns his attention to the rapidly evolving relationship between humans and technology. | Garry Kasparov | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 53 | Creative Commons | Philae at the comet: a scientific adventure | Professor Chris Lintott, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford and presenter of the BBC’s Sky at Night will talk about the history and the science of the voyage. | Chris Lintott, Ian Goldin | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 54 | Creative Commons | The metabolism of a human-dominated planet | Yadvinder Malhi, Director of the Oxford Centre ofr Tropical Forests, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. | Yadvinder Malhi | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 55 | Creative Commons | Living in a quantum world | Vlatko Vedral, Co-=Direct oof the Oxford Martin Programme on Bio-Inspired Quantum Technologies, gives a talk for theOxford Martin School. | Vlatko Vedral | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 56 | Creative Commons | Quantum life | Professor Seth Lloyd, Principal Investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. | Seth Lloyd | 18 Aug 2015 |
| 57 | Artificial intelligence: examining the interface between brain and machine | Dr Anders Sandberg, James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, gives a seminar as part of the Oxford Martin School Hilary Term seminar series: Blurring the lines: the changing dynamics between man and machine. | Anders Sandberg | 24 Feb 2015 | |
| 58 | mHealth: smartphones as saviours? | Dr Fred Hersch and Dr Gari Clifford give a seminar is part of the Oxford Martin School Hilary Term seminar series: Blurring the lines: the changing dynamics between man and machine | Fred Hersch, Gari Clifford | 24 Feb 2015 | |
| 59 | Where next for citizen science? Innovative uses for crowd sourcing | Dr Chris Lintott and Dr Brooke Simmons give a seminar as part of the Oxford Martin School Hilary Term seminar series: Blurring the lines: the changing dynamics between man and machine. | Chris Lintott, Brooke Simmons | 24 Feb 2015 | |
| 60 | Creative Commons | The fight for women's rights: learning from success | Baroness Helena Kennedy QC gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School on women's rights. | Helena Kennedy | 24 Feb 2015 |
| 61 | Creative Commons | Capital failure - restoring trust in the financial system | Professor David Vines gives a talk onthe financial system. | David Vines | 17 Feb 2015 |
| 62 | Creative Commons | Oxford and the next-generation of mobile health | David Clifton, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, gives a talk for Oxford Martin School. | David Clifton | 17 Feb 2015 |
| 63 | Creative Commons | The butterfly defect: how globalization creates systemic risks, and what to do about it | Professor Ian Goldin gives a talk on globalization and systemic risk. | Ian Goldin | 17 Feb 2015 |
| 64 | Creative Commons | Is the Planet Full? | Charles Godfray, Ian Goldin, Sarah Harper, Toby Ord and Yadvinder Malhi discuss whether the planet is full. | Charles Godfray, Ian Goldin, Sarah Harper, Toby Ord | 17 Feb 2015 |
| 65 | Creative Commons | Well fed? The health and environmental implications of our food choices | Mike Rayner, Susan Jebb and Tara Garnett give a talk about food and feeding the population. | Mike Rayner, Susan Jebb, Tara Garnett | 17 Feb 2015 |
| 66 | Creative Commons | World population and human capital in the 21st century | Andrew Dilnot, David Coleman, Francesco Billari, Sarah Harper and Wolfgang Lutz give a talk about world population. | Andrew Dilnot, David Coleman, Francesco Billari, Sarah Harper | 17 Feb 2015 |
| 67 | Creative Commons | Eradicating Hepatitis C and HIV: progress and challenges for the next ten years | Dr John Frater, Principal Investigator, Institute for Emerging Infections and Dr Ellie Barnes, Principal Investigator, Institute for Emerging Infections. | Ellie Barnes, John Frater | 17 Feb 2015 |
| 68 | Creative Commons | New strategies for disease prevention and management from infancy to old age | Professor Terry Dwyer, Executive Director, The George Institute for Global Health and Dr Kazem Rahimi, Deputy Director, The George Institute for Global Health. | Kazem Rahimi, Terry Dwyer | 17 Feb 2015 |
| 69 | Creative Commons | Why do we need to reconstruct drug discovery? | Dr Javier Lezaun and Professor Chas Bountra give a talk about drug discovery. | Chas Bountra, Javier Lezaun | 17 Feb 2015 |
| 70 | Creative Commons | Strategies for vaccines for the 21st century | Professor Susan Lea, Professor Christoph Tang, Professor Jeffrey Almond and Dr Ian Feavers discuss strategies for vaccines for the 21st century. | Susan Lea, Christoph Tang, Jeffrey Almond, Ian Feavers | 17 Feb 2015 |
| 71 | Creative Commons | Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies | Professor Bostrom on his book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. | Nick Bostrom | 17 Feb 2015 |
| 72 | Accountability and Globalisation | Panel 6 from the Human Rights and the Post-2015 Agenda Conference. The views expressed in this presentation are personal and not those of the individual’s institution. | Fiona de Londras, Kate Donald | 15 Dec 2014 | |
| 73 | Integrating Challenges of Armed Conflict and Insecurity | Panel 5 from the Human Rights and the Post-2015 Agenda Conference. The views expressed in this presentation are personal and not those of the individual’s institution. | Dapo Akande, Keith Krause, Tom Wheeler | 15 Dec 2014 | |
| 74 | The Right to a Healthy Environment/Climate Justice | Panel 4 from the Human Rights and the Post-2015 Agenda Conference. The views expressed in this presentation are personal and not those of the individual’s institution. | Dominic Roser, Simon Caney, Ricardo Fuentes, Olivier de Schutter | 15 Dec 2014 | |
| 75 | Equality, Non-discrimination and Equity | Panel 3 from the Human Rights and the Post-2015 Agenda Conference. The views expressed in this presentation are personal and not those of the individual’s institution. | Malcolm Langford, Sandra Fredman, Ed Anderson, Sabina Alkire | 15 Dec 2014 | |
| 76 | Human Rights and a New Global Agenda | Panel 2 from the Human Rights and the Post-2015 Agenda Conference. | Jaakko Kuosmanen, Henry Shue, Jennifer Welsh, Malcolm Langford | 15 Dec 2014 | |
| 77 | Post-2015 Development Agenda and the State of Play | Panel 1 from the Human Rights and the Post-2015 Agenda Conference. The views expressed in this presentation are personal and not those of the individual’s institution. | Ian Goldin, Mac Darrow, Isabel Ortiz, Roberto BIssio | 15 Dec 2014 | |
| 78 | Creative Commons | Science and the future: Death - nothing more certain? - Oxford Literary Festival | From Neolithic burials to Mozart's Requiem and the novels of Martin Amis, humans have fashioned cultural responses to the inevitability of each individual's demise. | Donna Dickenson, Adam Rutherford, Anders Sandberg, Georgina Ferry | 18 Jun 2013 |
| 79 | Creative Commons | Science and the future: Death - nothing more certain? - Oxford Literary Festival | From Neolithic burials to Mozart's Requiem and the novels of Martin Amis, humans have fashioned cultural responses to the inevitability of each individual's demise. | Donna Dickenson, Adam Rutherford, Anders Sandberg, Georgina Ferry | 18 Jun 2013 |
| 80 | Creative Commons | Innovation or stagnation - Oxford Union Debate | The Innovation Enigma - Is the current growth crisis a result of decades of technological stagnation in a risk-averse society? | Ian Goldin, Peter Thiel, Seung-yoon Lee, Mark Shuttleworth | 22 May 2013 |
| 81 | Creative Commons | The Transformation of Humankind | With Dr James Martin, Founder, Oxford Martin School. | Andrew Hamilton, Ian Goldin, James Marrow | 22 May 2013 |
| 82 | Creative Commons | The Future of Energy and Transport | With Elon Musk, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). | Elon Musk | 22 May 2013 |
| 83 | Creative Commons | Ethics and infectious disease - navigating the moral maze of pandemic control | With Professor Paul Klenerman Principal Investigator, Institute for Emerging Infections. | Paul Klenerman, Bennertt Foddy | 22 May 2013 |
| 84 | Creative Commons | Ethics and plant science - improving food yields in a changing environment | With Professor Liam Dolan and Professor Jane Langdale, Co-Directors, Plants for the 21st Century Institute. | Liam Dolan, Jane Langdale, Julian Savulescu | 22 May 2013 |
| 85 | Creative Commons | Resource stewardship - can we develop a new common sense morality? | With Professor Myles Allen, Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Resource Stewardship. You can show people all the evidence in the world about climate change, but if the policy debate is framed in an intractable way, it won't make any difference. | Myles Allen, Ian Goldin | 22 May 2013 |
| 86 | Creative Commons | Killing with computers - the ethics of autonomous and remote controlled weapon | Remote controlled and autonomous robotic weapons are bringing new levels of complexity to modern warfare. It's when such robots are designed as lethal weapons that the threshold for moral justification gets higher. | Alex Leveringhaus, Dapo Akande, Bennett Foddy | 22 May 2013 |
| 87 | Creative Commons | Reviving the Spirit of Innovation | With Kary Kasparov, world chess champion, writer and political activist. The world we live in now is very different from the one that was imagined 50 years ago. | Gary Kasparov, Ian Goldin | 22 May 2013 |
| 88 | Creative Commons | Experiments in sociological food governance | Dr Michael Guggenheim (Goldsmiths, University of London) gives a talk for the Oxford Food Governance Group on 28th November 2012. | Michael Guggenheim | 13 Feb 2013 |
| 89 | Creative Commons | Date labelling and the governance of food quality and safety | Dr Richard Milne (University of Sheffield) gives a talk for the Oxford Food Governance Group on 21st November 2012. | Richard Milne | 13 Feb 2013 |
| 90 | Creative Commons | Fat places? Re-thinking the obesogenic environment thesis and the implications for food governance | Professor Julie Guthman (University of California, Santa Cruz) gives a talk for the Oxford Food Governance Group on 14th November 2012. | Julie Guthman | 13 Feb 2013 |
| 91 | Creative Commons | Sustainability and governance of the food supply | Dr David Barling (City University London) gives a talk for the Oxford Food Governance Group on 7th November 2012. | David Barling | 13 Feb 2013 |
| 92 | Creative Commons | Governing food anxieties: The role of emotion in mothers' food practices | Professor Alan Petersen (Monash University) gives a talk on for the Oxford Food Governance Group on 25th October 2012. | Alan Petersen | 13 Feb 2013 |
| 93 | Creative Commons | Pandemics - Can we eliminate major worldwide epidemics? | Larry Brilliant, President of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. | Larry Brilliant | 06 Nov 2012 |
| 94 | Creative Commons | Doing capitalism in the innovation economy | William H. Janeway CBE, Senior Advisor and Managing Director at Warburg Pincus, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. | William H Janeway | 06 Nov 2012 |
| 95 | Creative Commons | What will buildings of the future look like? | There's a lot that we can learn from the past, using modern materials and approaches, that will improve the design and functionality of new buildings. | Steve Rayner | 20 Aug 2012 |
| 96 | Creative Commons | What will be the pros and cons of city life in the future? | As populations increasingly migrate to city centres there are many factors that improve lifestyle - less pollution, fewer road accidents, easier access to medical care. But city infrastructure could do with a rethink says Professor Steve Rayner. | Steve Rayner | 20 Aug 2012 |
| 97 | Creative Commons | How can we deal with the challenge of 'data overload'? | We are reaching a point where computers can no longer cope with the quantity of data collected from cosmological simulations - a problem that will grow, not only in cosmology. | Pedro Ferreira | 20 Aug 2012 |
| 98 | Creative Commons | Why do we need 'citizen science'? | Harnessing the general public to help analyse complex data sets is not only helping scientists with galaxy classification. | Pedro Ferreira | 20 Aug 2012 |
| 99 | Creative Commons | How can nanotechnology address medical problems? | Microscopes with nanometer resolution can test the mechanical properties of cells. Nanoscale 'scaffolds' that mimic the cellular matrix of cells in the body can help regenerate tissue, improve healing mechanisms, and even train the immune system. | Sonia Contera | 20 Aug 2012 |
| 100 | Creative Commons | What are the primary healthcare issues in resource deprived areas? | The healthcare needs of teenagers in India are the focus of a new study by the George Centre for Healthcare Innovation. | Robyn Norton | 20 Aug 2012 |
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