Upcoming events and recordings

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15th Nov 2024

Insights for Action: Scaling Impact — How Consultants Shape the Field

Saïd Business School (and online)
In this month's seminar, co-hosted with the Gradel Institue of Charity, we will discuss the powerful role consultants play in shaping how organisations think about and do impact, in the non-profit, private and public sectors.
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Insights for Action Event GII Report 2024
11th Oct 2024

Insights for Action: Launching the 2024 Global Innovation Index Report

Saïd Business School
Join the Skoll Centre for the first seminar of the academic year, co-hosted with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Portulans Institute, and Saïd Business School, as we globally launch the 2024 Global Innovation Index Report. This year’s theme, Social Entrepreneurship, will explore the future of the field and its role in driving transformative innovation and societal impact.
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Impact Monetisation.
7th Jun 2024

Insights for Action: Impact Monetisation

Saïd Business School
Marya Besharov, Academic Director of the Skoll Centre, was joined by Sam Vionnet, Founder of Valuing Impact, and Karim Harji, Director of the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme, for a timely and provocative discussion on monetizing and valuing impact.
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19th Apr 2024

Insights for Action: Climate Changemaker Playbook

Saïd Business School
Co-authors Marya Besharov and Pip Wheaton came together with Sue Riddlestone OBE to launch the joint Skoll Centre and Ashoka Climate Changemaker Playbook, a collection of strategies and tactics for how to unlock our collective power to take climate action.
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Regular programming

Skoll World Forum

The next Skoll World Forum (SWF) will take place April 1–4, 2025. Forum attendance is curated by the Skoll Foundation team, with free virtual participation open to everyone. 

Alongside the Skoll World Forum, the Marmalade Festival hosts an ecosystem of independent events to explore and expand solutions to social problems. The 2024 Marmalade Festival will take place April 1–4, 2025 at the Old Fire Station. All ecosystem events will be free or low-cost and open to the public. 

Insights for Action Research seminar series

A public seminar series, Insights for Action explores how researchers and practitioners within and beyond Oxford are using research insights to drive social change. Recent sessions have covered topics such as workarounds for systems change; leadership and wellbeing in the impact sector; and creating impact at scale through avenues such as the B Corp movement, state bureaucracies, supply chain governance, and major programmes. Watch all past seminars online over on our YouTube channel. 

Skoll Community Convening

Launched in 2022, our annual community convening brings researchers, practitioners, and learners together to consider critical questions such as: what does ‘impact’ mean, and how should it be measured, financed, and sustained? What leadership and organising skills are needed to catalyse impact? How can we build resilience to do this work well? What can we learn from ‘new frontiers’ of impact creation – in the metaverse, outer space, and on our doorstep?