Our goal is to maximise the impact of social entrepreneurship to transform unjust or unsatisfactory systems or practices around the world, and address critical social and environmental challenges.
We do this by:
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
Our research and community are global in scope, and we use the power of networks to magnify the work of our researchers, students, and wider community beyond local and national boundaries.
In this section, you can read and engage with our work, as well as find out more about what we offer.
We offer a variety of courses, competitions and learning opportunities that equip Oxford MBA and other postgraduate students across the University with the knowledge, skills and connections to create positive, lasting social change.
Find out more about the programmes open to you as a student at the University:
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 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 research ideas and communicate research findings to generate real impact.
Some of the activities to achieve this are:
A research initiative that focuses on the long-term empirical study of systems change efforts in the social impact space, including pathways, challenges and solutions.
We offer a unique opportunity to hear from, network and collaborate with the worlds leading experts on social entrepreneurship through our programme of events.
We pride ourselves in 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 the Saïd Business School annually running its own events alongside it, such as lively Oxford Union debates on social impact education.
The practice of combining opportunity, innovation, and resourcefulness to address critical social and environmental challenges.
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.
