Blogs & articles

The role of men in supporting women into leadership

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02 Oct 2014

This blog was originally posted on the College of Arts & Humanities, University of Brighton, blog. Read the original post. This comes in advance of next week's event run by RSA Brighton and Hove. Find out more or and book your place at the event.

How to join the MOOC education revolution: a new free way to learn/create together with other RSA Fellows

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19 Sep 2014

 The emergence of MOOCs (‘Massive Open Online Courses’) - where tens of thousands of people can learn online together, mostly for free - has taken the education world by storm.

The Big Idea – Banbury Literary Live

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15 Sep 2014

This is a guest blog from Liz Holme FRSA who, along with her team of literacy enthusiasts, is trying to reignite Britain's love of reading.

Creativity, learning and tigers in the Forest of Imagination

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09 Sep 2014

Kate Monkhouse

The Forest of Imagination took place in Bath this summer and attracted over 2,000 visitors. It was a 4 day contemporary arts, creativity and learning event organised and led by RSA Fellows and hosted by Bath Spa University. Over the past year I’ve blogged a number of times about the ArtSpace Bath and the Forest of Imagination (from now on Forest) project and I had been involved in many meetings, discussions and communications about it. That said, when the Forest launched I still wasn’t quite sure what to expect. What I discovered was a creative world full of surprises and learning.

Over £310,000,000 a Year Misspent on Tuition - and one Fellow's attempt to change this

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26 Aug 2014

This is a guest post from Fellow Stephen Parkes. Stephen was awarded a Catalyst Grant for his project Go Enrol, a website allowing potential students to compare higher education opportunities on the issues that matter to them. Stephen is particularly keen to find Fellows who can introduce student career advisors, teachers and parents of students who looking at going to university.

Creativity in public services

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18 Aug 2014

This is a guest blog from London-based RSA Fellow Steven Trevillion. Steve is interested in connecting with like-minded Fellows with a view to establishing a framework for small, experimental social and community projects that could feed into the national debate about 'welfare reform'. He is an Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of East London and a visual artist.

How crowdfunding can help launch social ventures - what we've learned so far

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08 Aug 2014

Last autumn the RSA launched new support to help RSA Fellows prepare and publicise crowdfunding campaigns - where people set a funding target and try to raise that money from lots of people. I recently gathered together a large group of people to feedback on our review of the first half a year of this support and see how it is relevant for different organisations.

Pioneering social innovation in Malaysia

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07 Aug 2014

Sevra Davis

This blog was originally posted on the news page of the RSA Student Design Awards website on 4th August 2014.

Systemic leadership: it’s about noticing, navigating, understanding and caring for the fish-tank as well as the fish

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06 Aug 2014

‘What is the system doing to me, and what am I doing to the system?’ and ‘what are the social forces to which I am exposed at work that shape my leadership performance?’ were two of the many questions that Surrey Fellows were recently invited to explore, as part of a workshop run by Dr William Tate, Director of the Institute for Systemic Leadership.