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Is a Civil Society Britain being born?

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02 Nov 2020

Dr Jim Cowan FRSA

Dr Jim Cowan FRSA on what Britain's future could look like

The Global Partnerships Forum (GPF)

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23 Jul 2017

Amir A. Dossal (United Nations) Trevor Wicks FRSA

Trevor Wicks FRSA and Amir Dossal are working on The Global Partnerships Forum (GPF).

Winchester’s cultural identity

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23 Jul 2017

Paul Coverdale

The first meet up of the new Winchester RSA Network brought together over 30 Fellows and others curious about the RSA on one of the hottest days of the year. It might be a recent development, but there has actually been RSA activity of one sort or another in the city stretching back to 1974 so maybe it’s simply tapping into some latent creativity and enlightened thinking in the area. The evening was kindly hosted by the Winchester School of Art with a theme, appropriately enough, of Winchester’s cultural identity.

Converging our World

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23 Jul 2017

Louis Horsley

I’ve been a Fellow of the RSA for just over a year after receiving a Young Fellows Bursary. I have been sharing an enthusiasm for launching and supporting social and environmental action projects. During our monthly meet-ups for 20-30+ Fellows, it became apparent that other Fellows in the wider area were doing amazing things to address issues they’d identified in their communities and beyond.

Is the future of cities smart?

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20 Oct 2014

In the future, cities will account for 80% of wealth creation, 60% of energy consumption, and almost 90% of global population growth, according to research on city science from MIT. Russel Cooke argues that those cities that understand the value of ‘big data’ within their urbanisation strategies will be better positioned for future improvements.

Can the Professions Serve the Public Good?

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07 Nov 2013

About 50 years ago, the great Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons wrote that the professions have: "become the most important single component in the structure of modern societies." In an increasingly complex society do we need the professions more than ever in helping us to negotiate the world about us? Or conversely, at a time of much emphasis on empowered investors, stakeholders and citizens is the need for professions diminishing?

Group size, networks and ethical behaviour

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08 Nov 2012

Recent times have seen some alarming instances of small groups at the top of organisations behaving in appalling ways: the contempt of traders for the ‘muppets’ outside the Wall Street charmed circle; the manipulation of the Libor rate; the police officers responsible for covering up the events at Hillsborough Stadium in 1989. Piers Ibbotson FRSA argues that these instances may not be anomalies and may be an inevitable consequence of an organisation’s size and the imposition of structures that are blind to the fundamental architecture of human groups.

Rochdale: abuse, misogyny and misrepresentation

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20 Jun 2012

Anwar Akhtar FRSA, director of The Samosa, responds to the issues raised by the conviction of nine men as part of a child sexual exploitation gang targeting vulnerable girls in Rochdale.

RSA Animate - The Power of Networks

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22 May 2012

In this RSA Animate, Manuel Lima senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern world. Taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima as part of the RSA's free public events programme.