Structural Awards 2016

The Blavatnik School of Government will be located on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter site, overlooking Walton Street. Made possible by a £75 million endowment by American industrialist and philanthropist Leonard Blavatnik, the School’s mission is to train future world leaders through an unrivalled multi-disciplinary curriculum.The School will offer a full-time one-year Master’s degree for graduates with an outstanding academic record who want to embrace an integrated approach to public policy.

Students will be trained to offer a practically-informed and critical perspective on a wide range of issues, spanning democracy, law and security, history, finance, economic governance, science and the environment, demographics, public health and social policy. The course will include practically focused training in negotiation, budgeting and accounting, strategic communications and evaluation.

The School is currently using temporary accommodation. It wants to move to new premises that will allow it to undertake its full range of activities on one site. For example, the current building has accommodation for only some of the faculty: other faculty will be located in an annex building. In addition, the School is only operating at modest capacity with, for example, 60 early- to mid- career Masters students starting in September 2013 compared to the 120 eventually envisaged. Ultimately, the School expects to have up to 550 building users at any one time (120 Masters students, 62 faculty (including visiting faculty), 50 researchers, 42 staff, 40 participants in executive education programmes, 20 doctoral students and up to 216 visitors and seminar/conference participants).