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Where Does the Responsibility for Community Lie?

Video

18 Apr 2013

Tim Smit, is CEO of The Eden Project, and joins an expert panel to ask whether initiatives such as The Big Lunch can provide the social capital boost Britain needs?
Communities: a solution to the 'global mental health crisis'?

Blog

11 Apr 2013

Matthew Parsfield

Mental health is a globally pressing issue. Conservative estimates suggest that 400 million people worldwide suffer from various mental illnesses, while the World Health Organisation predicts that by 2030 depression will be the world’s leading cause of the burden of disease, with mental health problems already exacting a greater toll than tuberculosis, cancer, or heart disease.
Networks of Outrage and Hope

Video

20 Mar 2013

Manuel Castells is university professor and Wallis Annenberg chair of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
The Silence of Animals: On progress and other modern myths

Video

04 Mar 2013

John Gray is one of Britain's most provocative philosophers.
The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

Video

27 Feb 2013

Dan Pink is the author of a number of provocative bestselling books on the changing world of work.
Can partnerships help the RSA Fellowship go from good to great?

Blog

21 Feb 2013

Adam Timmins

As Matthew Taylor noted in an earlier blog post “it is often said that the Fellowship has the potential to be the RSA’s greatest and most distinctive asset”. Two key questions for staff in the Fellowship department are:
The Power of Fellowship Connections

Blog

05 Feb 2013

Richard Pickford

I was struck by just how powerful the work of a few individuals can be to create and sustain an idea following a meeting recently with Ian Jamie, a Fellow and School Governor at Whitley Academy. Through personal experience and insight of the local situation he has begun to work with the Academy to help support Year 12 students as they begin to consider their next steps. Having experienced the power of support from a network of alumni and family friends as he developed his career he has seen the value of connectivity. Ian and the staff that are working with the 6th form are keen to take the best from their experiences to offer similar opportunities for 6th form students at Whitley Academy.
Is social networking redefining identity?

Blog

24 Jan 2013

When did you last send a tweet? What did your Facebook friends have to say about how they’re feeling this morning? How important are online networks to your sense of who you are? Chances are you’ll have something to say about at least one of these questions. For a majority of Britons, online persona and virtual networks are becoming increasingly definitional.
Why Can't We Live Together?

Video

17 Jan 2013

Miles Hewstone is an award-winning professor of social psychology at Oxford University
Urgent need to explore new ways to protect communities from the cuts

Press release

16 Jan 2013

Communities facing the sharp ends of cuts can be protected from some of the worst impacts by strong local networks of ordinary people, according to a report published by the RSA. However, local and central government need to invest in helping to turn ‘strangers into neighbours’.