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After the summer of discontent: where next and what’s needed now?

20 Oct 2022
Morgan Wild, Citizens Advice, Katherine Chapman, Living Wage Foundation and Kate Bell, TUC, reflect on the worsening pressures on the cost of living and what Britain’s ‘summer of discontent’ can teach us about the power of collective action.
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The story behind extraordinary success

29 Sep 2022
From resilience, confidence and grit to the odds stacked firmly in your favour, what does it take to achieve extraordinary success today? Bruce Daisley explores the complex story behind success and sets out how we can all unlock our inner strength.
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Social justice and health equity

13 Sep 2022
Landmark inequality review author Sir Michael Marmot calls for evidence-based action to tackle the health gap across the whole of society and at each life stage.
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Is social prescribing the future for healthcare?

20 Sep 2022
Lord Andrew Mawson and Sir Sam Everington, recipients of the 2022 RSA Albert Medal, will talk about creating new contexts for health through social prescribing, the innovative approach now widely used in the NHS.
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If science is to save us

29 Sep 2022
Astronomer Royal Martin Rees argues that if we are to solve the multiple crises we now face, we need long-term, rational, global thinking, guided by values science alone cannot provide.
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Where next for the UK’s local and regional economies?

05 Jul 2022
Combined authority mayors Andy Burnham and Andy Street visit the RSA to discuss how extended local powers and long-term funding will unlock the potential in people and places and improve outcomes for all communities.
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Three centuries of the RSA

12 Jul 2022
What can the RSA’s history tell us about what it takes to make change happen? Join us to celebrate ‘Arts and Minds’, the acclaimed new official history of the RSA, with author, Anton Howes.
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The social distance between us

30 Jun 2022
Those in power are often at arm’s length from the problems they are in charge of solving – is this why social inequality remains so entrenched? Writer and rapper Darren McGarvey explores the social remoteness underpinning our failing systems, and what it would take to do better.