Conferences

Oxford Hub runs several conferences throughout the year, bringing together students from across the UK and beyond. These conferences give you an opportunity to learn more about social and environmental issues, to meet likeminded people and to hear from inspiring speakers who are experts in their fields. Our conferences include:

We are currently recruiting student committees for the Oxford Climate Forum, Introduction to International Development and Oxford Forum for International Development. To apply, please follow the links below to the application forms:

Emerge Conference

Emerge engages and connects university students and young professionals aspiring to drive transformational change, with current global change-agents leading entrepreneurial ventures, businesses and sector defying organisations. Emerge is about "what's next": the big ideas, the future leaders, the driving forces challenging the status quo. It brings to the forefront that which is emerging: new models, markets and movers of transformational change. 

Over the two day gathering, participants learn from leading global entrepreneurs about their innovations to address some of the world's most urgent challenges. Emerge centres on learning and action; it is a space to gain skills and resources to launch a new venture, to design intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial career pathways, and to provoke new ideas for creating a more sustainable world.

The event is co-designes and co-organised by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University's Said Business School and Student Hubs.

For more info, check out the website.

The Introduction to International Development

A day of speakers, panels and debates exploring the issues around international development. Bringing together practitioners, academics, policy makers and influential young people to discuss what role can be played by the individual in international development and what the wider international development landscape looks like. The Introduction to International Development (IID) takes place in Michaelmas term, as a smaller sister conference of OxFID (see below). Visit the website here to get more information on both conferences and to find out more about past events.

The Oxford Climate Forum

Oxford Climate Forum is the biggest student conference of its kind, connecting the leading thinkers and doers in the climate sector with students who are passionate about the issues at stake. The 2013 conference was held in January and had a theme of Action, with workshops including UKYCC Youth for Green Jobs and Naomi Hicks Climate Impacts and Adaptation in the UK. More information on the programme and speakers can be found on the website. The committee also ran a Day of Action following the conference, an event held in the centre of Oxford, bringing together local green and low carbon groups with students and the public. The event included stalls and workshops and a community cooking evening. Photos can be seen below.

The Oxford Forum for International Development

The UK's highest profile student-led conference on development issues, OxFID brings together practitioners, academics and professionals from across the world to discuss the latest in the field of international development. Over the past 6 years OxFID has played host to distinguished speakers and leaders in the development sector including John Holmes, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Dr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and influential broadcaster John Snow.

This year the conference addressed:

Helping or Hurting: Aid in the 21st Century

Held at the Said Business School from the 8th-10th of February, check out the website for more information and for presentations from the weekend.