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Rebel, Upholder, Questioner, Obliger: which one are you? | Gretchen Rubin

25 Feb 2019

This animation shines a light on those quirks of our psychology that make it hard to change our (and other people’s!) behaviour. Bestselling author Gretchen Rubin explains the four personality ‘tendencies’ and their respective strengths and weaknesses.

Past RSA Journals

Issue 4 2018

19 Feb 2019

In this issue we discuss the challenges young people are facing and tackling – from climate change to social media, and whether the term ‘snowflake’ has been used fairly to describe some of them.

Blog

Go forth, Evidence Champions!

14 Feb 2019 Mark Londesborough, Sam Grinsted

The RSA launches The Cultural Learning Evidence Champion’s Handbook to support arts and cultural educators to get to grips with ‘evidence-rich practice’.

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The Cultural Learning Evidence Champion’s Handbook

14 Feb 2019

We have developed a handbook designed to make it easier to ‘do’ evidence and evaluation in arts and cultural learning.

Blog

4 reasons to protect cash and bank branches

31 Jan 2019 Mark Hall

The speed of the UK banking industry’s move away from cash and bank branches is harming many communities and poses real economic and social risks.

Past RSA Journals

Issue 3 2018

21 Nov 2018

In this issue, Matthew Taylor discusses citizen-powered progress and we showcase the RSA’s essays on the future of education, automation and public services.

Animations

The Truth About Algorithms | Cathy O’Neil

17 Oct 2018

We often think that algorithms are objective and fair, but they’re built to serve the people who create them – how can we make sure that the process of building algorithms is ethical?

Past RSA Journals

Issue 2 2018

29 Aug 2018

We discuss the issues surrounding housing, from potential policy to ideas of homeliness and the nation-state.

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Realising Basic Income experiments in the UK

2 Aug 2018

Charlie Young explores how we can test a Universal Basic Income in the UK and other contexts.

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Move fast and fix things: How to be a public entrepreneur

24 Jul 2018

This report describes the findings from a six-month inquiry where we applied the RSA’s model of change “think like a system, act like an entrepreneur” to the challenges of procuring and scaling innovation through government.