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Economy, Employment & Design

Dream homes

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13 Apr 2020

Keith Clancy FRSA

Keith Clancy FRSA on why we can use our collective imagination to re-imagine a kinder future for our children and that includes a fairer and more sustainable housing policy.
Reprioritising workforce development

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09 Apr 2020

Phaedra Boinodiris FRSA Rebecca F. Kemper

Crises can be helpful in reprioritising what really matters; we can respond to this crisis to work for an equitable future for all.
Learning from family enterprise

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25 Nov 2019

Steve Morris

What can businesses learn family enterprise models? Steve Morris FRSA shares his experience of growing up with a family business.
Urban Planning for people

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28 Jun 2019

Hugh Barton FRSA

Economic growth always seems to take precedence over healthy urban environments. So how do we re-orientate policy? Hugh Barton FRSA, Emeritus Professor of planning, health and sustainability, argues we need to co-operate and forge alliances.
Industrial Design: Rethinking the Future...

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27 Jun 2019

Adrian Stokes

Industrial designer Adrian Stokes argues for a future in which products are designed to be maintained and repaired - taking into account the consumer, local manufacturing and the environment.
A lifelong learning no man’s land for the self-employed?

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04 Jun 2019

Zahra Davidson

Enrol Yourself hosts inclusive, local peer groups that support adults at times of transition by building their personal and professional resilience over 6 months.
The progressive case against UBI

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08 Nov 2018

James Murphy

The RSA is a well-known advocate of exploring universal basic income and its potential. Not all our Fellows agree. James Murphy FRSA believes that the concept is fundamentally flawed and argues that is time to abandon the idea.
Walking the tightrope on the future of work

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18 Sep 2018

Sir Brendan Paul Barber

In advance of a national conference on the future of work, Sir Brendan Barber, Acas Chair, argues that anyone who aims to influence the world of work has to understand the ever- shifting policy focus between regulation, in the form of legally enforceable rights, and discretion, where behaving in a certain way is advisory but not enforceable.
Business-to-business asset sharing

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08 Aug 2018

Our society is changing. ‘Us’ is becoming the new ‘me’ and access to items is becoming more important than actually possessing them. Laury Zwart champions the role asset sharing between businesses.
Work and the Transition Myth

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06 Aug 2018

Graham Norris

The technologies currently being developed and rolled out will have fundamental consequences for future economic activity. Graham Norris FRSA argues that when talking about the future of work, we need to ditch the suggestion that there will be some transition endpoint and embrace the fact that change will continue to accelerate.