The Smith School has been shortlisted in the edie Net Zero Awards 2025 in a new category which shines a light on the educational bodies, think tanks and NGOs that have worked tirelessly to ensure that discourse on net-zero is grounded in evidence.

Women's Health explores the serious health implications of heatwaves with Dr Laurence Wainwright. 'The evidence is clear that key areas of the brain – especially those responsible for solving complex cognitive tasks, such as problem-solving, reasoning and maintaining attention – are impaired by heat stress, which occurs when the body's temperature is elevated beyond its normal resting temperature of around 37c,' says Dr Wainwright.

Bloomberg covers analysis from Noah Mihan, MSc alumnus and Smith School researcher, which assesses 220 American Republican representatives on how they might vote in a potential repeal of clean energy subsidies. 

The FT highlights the Smith School as part of its Special Report on the Responsible Business Awards, and Smith School Director Professor Mette Morsing comments on the need for business schools to collaborate with climate scientists, engineers, geographers, chemists, anthropologists, and others to tackle the world's most urgent challenges. 

Dr Laurence Wainwright, Director of our MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment, told Business Because that students must learn to thrive in increasingly turbulent, uncertain, novel, and ambiguous times.

An increasing backlash against ESG investing in the United States is driving a divide between the country's business schools and their European counterparts. Professor Mette Morsing, Director of the Oxford Smith School, told the FT that many institutions still teach "outdated economic models and management frameworks that do not align with today’s sustainability challenges."