Liesl Elder, Oxford’s Chief Development and Alumni Engagement Officer, Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh and Professor Cathy Creswell join Vice-Chancellor Professor Irene Tracey to examine the role of philanthropy in sustaining a global research university. They discuss how major gifts — from endowed chairs in primary care to a £27 million investment in child and adolescent mental health — provide the flexibility, scale and long-term security needed to build capacity, expand access to opportunity, and respond to urgent international challenges.