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How can we cultivate healthier and happier communities?

11 Aug 2022 Ella Firebrace, Riley Thorold

Our personal health and wellbeing are not always in our control, how can we shape what it means to lead a healthier and happier life in our future?

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How a universal basic income can address the crisis in anxiety and depression (interim report)

28 Jul 2022 Hannah Webster, Riley Thorold, James Morrison

New research from the RSA, in partnership Northumbria University, explores the possible benefits of a universal basic income in the UK.

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Culture should be at the core of West Yorkshire’s economic plans

21 Jul 2022 Andy Haldane, Tracy Brabin

Levelling up can be a by-product of investment in culture and creativity according to RSA Chief Executive Andy Haldane and Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire.

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RSA supports Design Council’s ‘Design Economy’ report

21 Jul 2022

The RSA shows its support for the Design Council’s Design Economy: People, Places and Economic Value report.

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Youth social action and the experience of primary educators

12 Jul 2022 Hannah Breeze

Our Third Benefit research aims to understand how involving primary school teachers in high-quality youth social action can inform benefits for them as well as pupils and communities.

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RSA and Core Cities UK launch commission to ‘unlock the potential of UK cities’

8 Jul 2022

A new UK Urban Future Commission launches to unlock the potential of people and businesses in the UK’s major cities and the role they could play in Levelling Up.

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RSA Academies: A celebration

5 Jul 2022 Colin Hopkins

A celebration of the RSA Academies

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Youth works

5 Jul 2022 Leah Clarkson

How three RSA Fellows are fighting global inequalities standing in the way of young people

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Mind matters

5 Jul 2022 Charlie Hertzog Young

Challenging embedded beliefs can benefit mental and planetary health

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Bird’s eye view

5 Jul 2022 Mya-Rose Craig

The importance of forging strong relationships between visible minority ethnic youth and nature