Research

Collaboration is a good thing, isn’t it? Not always, according to a new paper by faculty member Thomas Elston and colleagues.
 

Eight new doctoral students and six new graduate students join the Blavatnik School of Government today to build on their research and practice to work towards a world better led, better served and better governed.   

A new book by Tom Simpson explores what creates trust, and how cultures of trust can be developed.

Professor Janina Dill has been appointed to the inaugural Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security, building on the School’s expertise in international law and government, and its wide-ranging engagement on issues from cyber security to reducing state fragility.

From becoming the last century’s original tool of last resort sanctions have become, by its most prolific user’s own admission, the tool of first resort this century. Across the G7 and beyond officials are reflecting on their experience of mounting the largest economic response to a security crisis in institutional memory.

The Master of Public Policy (MPP) class of 2023 arrived in Oxford, hailing from 58 different countries, for the start of their journey to navigate public policy. In total, almost 90% of this year's class of 147 brilliant students are receiving some funding to support their participation in the programme.

The final RISE (Research on Improving Systems of Education) conference starts at the Blavatnik School today, capping an eight-year, multi-country, £43m programme that has changed thinking and practice in the push to get the world learning.