University of Oxford
Project Title
For support of Research on Economic Security and Peace (RESP).
Date
Mar. 05, 2026
Duration
36 months
Description
Once seen as a stabilizing force, U.S. and China’s interdependent economies are now perceived as a strategic vulnerability amid rising geopolitical tensions with security concerns impacting economic policy. The economies are inextricably linked while challenges on trade, nuclear security, and AI regulation make international cooperation critical. To help navigate an increasingly complex and volatile political, economic, and security landscape between the U.S. and China, Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and Harvard University will launch a transatlantic collaborative, the Oxford-Harvard Research on Economic Security for Peace (RPES) project. This initiative intends to fill a gap in research to understand the securitization of economic relations between China and global powers. RESP aims to advance knowledge and provide insights to support policymakers bolster national security initiatives and mitigate unintended consequences of tit-for-tat economic measures that could escalate into conflict.
Project Title
For the web-based Mapping Global China project
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
As China’s economic, political, and cultural footprint expands, the need for high-quality data and analytical tools to better understand it is crucial. With Corporation support, Mapping Global China will enable scholars, policymakers, students, journalists, and more to explore China’s international engagement with precision and nuance. Through open-access curated datasets, interactive maps, and advanced data visualization tools, Mapping Global China will empower individuals to explore China’s multifaceted presence around the world based on their unique interests and needs. By offering a holistic perspective that extends beyond economic metrics to include geopolitical and cultural dimensions, Mapping Global China will help foster transparency, counter misperceptions, and facilitate informed discourse on China’s growing international role.
Project Title
As a final grant for Democratic Resilience in the Bodleian Libraries’ Collections
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
0 months
Description
Over the past four centuries, the Bodleian has developed an international reputation as one of the world’s leading libraries. Democratic Resilience in the Bodleian Libraries’ Collections responds to the need to improve the accessibility of key collections and the wider challenges faced by democracies in a more polarized world. Through this project, the Bodleian will improve the accessibility of collections related to democratic ideas and processes that have shaped countries and the lives of people. They will catalogue the archive of Lord Heseltine, digitize a variety of materials relating to democracy in the UK and beyond, and develop and publicize educational content based on those materials. Corporation support will enable these endeavors to be professionally staffed and carried through quickly to meet the needs of this democratic moment.
Project Title
In support of Mansfield College's AfOx Scholarship Program
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
In 1995, Mansfield College was awarded in full college status within the University of Oxford. Its Africa Oxford (AfOx) Initiative enables underrepresented young people from Africa to pursue postgraduate degrees at the University of Oxford. AfOx Scholars receive quality accommodations within Oxford; academic guidance and support; welfare and wellbeing support; and a program of lively social and academic activities designed to enable graduate students to meet others within the Middle Common Room (MCR), ie the body of graduate students within the College. Along with the Mastercard Foundation, a Carnegie Corporation grant will support five AfOx Scholarships per year, for the next three years.
Project Title
As a one-time only grant for a project to analyze the impact of polarization on nuclear politics
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Political polarization in the United States is likely to impact nuclear security in a variety of ways. With Carnegie support, the London School of Economics (LSE) will analyze the impact of reduced bipartisan consensus on U.S. domestic consideration of nuclear weapons-relevant policy, the concerns of allies about nuclear risks and extended deterrence, and the ability of U.S. adversaries to exploit partisan disagreement. This analysis and its dissemination will increase our understanding of the implications of polarization for nuclear-weapons relevant issues and help advance scholarship on the relationship between domestic politics and nuclear issues.
Project Title
As a final grant for the Bodleian Libraries’ Digital Archives project
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
48 months
Description
Each year, the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford serves over 65,000 registered readers, at least 40 per cent of whom are from beyond the University, and receives over 2 million research visits. The Bodleian’s goal is to preserve the inheritance of the past, while engaging new generations to come. It aims to provide the best possible materials to support the highest level of scholarship within the University and by visiting scholars. In an effort to do this they want to continue and finish the work they began with a Corporation grant in 2016 — digitizing and cataloguing their collections in order to be more widely accessible. With Corporation support the Bodleian will be able to continue their digitization and cataloguing work on their archival and special collections
Project Title
For support of the Bodleian Libraries’ Digital Archives project
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
52 months
Description
Over the past 400 years, the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have built one of the world’s great stores of memory—a trove of books, manuscripts, archives, maps, photographs, and other materials that document the creativity of great writers and artists, the findings of scientists and economists, and countless notable historical events. These collections have inspired students and scholars in Oxford throughout the centuries, from Christopher Wren to John Locke, from Edmund Halley to JRR Tolkien, from Dorothy Hodgkin to Jacques Derrida. In the 20th century, the Bodleian Libraries made much of its catalogue of printed books available online, published the first web site of any library in the UK, and partnered with Google for a mass digitization effort. However, because of rudimentary technology available at the time, some key parts of the collections were omitted, including major holdings of historical, political, and scientific archives and manuscripts. With Corporation support, the Bodleian will make these collections widely accessible for the first time.