Based at Saïd Business School, our goal is to maximise the positive impact of social entrepreneurship across the world.
We support and inspire students to tackle world-scale problems through social entrepreneurship, from education to climate change, from poverty to healthcare. We offer a rich portfolio of programmes and events, opportunities for funding and financial support, as well as a range of collaborative opportunities.
We also work to advance the field of social entrepreneurship through research insights and knowledge exchange. We are in a unique position to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Together, we can change the way the world works.
Learn more about what makes the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship unique.
Across 10 individual articles, we have shared the work that we are most proud of across the academic year of 2018-2019, the inspiring people that make it happen and our plans for the future.
2018-19 was a year of considerable growth. The Centre has seen massive gains in building its team, launching many new initiatives and reviewing our key priorities for the future.
Skoll was a fundamental attraction for me, I knew that I could spend two years incubating ideas that could scale for the world
We believe social entrepreneurship is the practice of combining opportunity, innovation, and resourcefulness to address critical social and environmental challenges.
This is mainly done by purpose-driven organisations and actors whose aim is to transform the systems and practices that are the root cause of the world’s largest social and environmental problems. Social entrepreneurs work across all sectors and in all industries in government, the public sector, non-profit organisations, large corporations and social venture start-ups to achieve positive systemic change.
It's for those who have been working to achieve systemic change to a social or environmentally challenge, either through an initiative they started or via an impact career across any sector.
Skoll Scholars have the chance to grow their impact by expanding their networks and skills at the University of Oxford. All Scholars become part of a life-long community of change leaders across the globe.
We work with faculty and early career researchers at Oxford Saïd and beyond to enable high-quality research that generates insights to address pressing environmental and social challenges, globally. Our aim is to connect researchers with social impact practitioners, catalyse new ideas and communicate findings to generate real impact.
Our current research initiatives are:
We offer advice and practical support to students and alumni and the wider Oxford community on the social and environmental impact of their ventures.
We do this through a number of different offerings.
We offer a unique opportunity to hear from, network and collaborate with the world's leading experts on social entrepreneurship through our programme of events.
We pride ourselves on our ability to bridge learning and practice, providing a centre for collaboration between the world's most influential social entrepreneurs, academics and systems thinkers.
One of these major events is the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.
The Skoll World Forum is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. The purpose of the event is to accelerate the impact of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs by uniting them with essential partners in a collaborative pursuit of learning, leverage, and large-scale social change.
This event is run by the Skoll Foundation. The Skoll Centre hosts the event at Saïd Business School annually running its own events alongside it, such as lively Oxford Union debates on social impact education.
We run numerous seminars, debates, lectures, webinars, and interactive workshops during the year. Many are led by policymakers, business executives, academics, and social innovators. All our events are open to University of Oxford students, and many open to the public.
Here, you can find the latest stories, insights, and thought provoking ideas from the people behind the Skoll Centre and our global community of entrepreneurs.
We will share updates on our upcoming programmes, events and opportunities.
