Global engagement
Global Engagement supports international collaboration across the University. Embedded within the University’s External Engagement Team, Global Engagement supports the cultivating and strengthening of strategic international partnerships that help address global challenges and deliver real-world impact. As the diplomatic ‘front door’ to the university, we work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities, build networks and facilitate effective engagement.
We work in partnership with other universities, governments, business and non-profit organisations across the world, using our global brand, convening power and research excellence for the benefit of society and the planet. In all our partnerships, we aspire to an approach that is genuine, sustainable and based on co-creation with the communities we work within.
Global Engagement services:
- Triaging collaboration enquiries to the University from international stakeholders and selectively hosting priority delegations from senior global partners.
- Mapping international activities across the University to facilitate connections between internal and external stakeholders and amplify international opportunities.
- Connecting a network for professional services and academic staff with global engagement roles to enable cross-university networking, professional development and opportunity advancement.
- Advising on how to establish international collaborations; working alongside Research Services, the Academic Administrative Division, Oxford University Innovation and Development and Alumni Engagement to provide coordinated support for relevant guidance enquires.
- Convening Strategic Global Partnerships with academic and non-academic partners, such as the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership, to facilitate strategic impact on a global scale.
Over the coming years we will:
- Ensure our world-class research continues to inform and shape international policy-making, particularly in critical areas such as climate and the environment, leveraging our partnerships with other international organisations, governments, business and NGOs to do so.
- Strengthen and expand key partnerships with other universities across the world, in order to maximise our capacity to address the world’s major challenges in a strategic, transparent and outcome-driven way.
- Support communities and higher education institutions affected by conflict and crisis by sharing our collections and digital resources, and by supporting pathways to higher education for refugees and displaced people.
Partner institutions
International Offices
The University has four offices situated across the globe, in Japan, China, North America and Germany. These offices play an important role in fostering connections between the University and regional communities, business and government, and are particularly valuable in maintaining and strengthening relationships with University alumni in the regions.
