Latest thinking

Alcohol and Crime: How Do We Break the Cycle?

Video

13 May 2014

With Rowan Conway, John Podmore, Simon Antrobus and Kevin McGrath

How to develop a socially productive place

Blog

08 Apr 2014

Jonathan Schifferes

Last week the RSA brought together over 100 people who invest in, plan and construct our built environment – homes, workplaces and public buildings. Here, we summarise the key insights generated, and diverse voices heard. In the next two months, we will pull together a paper outlining policy directions for the government and the various relevant sectors of industry. This will be an open process, so we are starting here summarising feedback and providing minutes and presentations:

Developing Socially Productive Places

Blog

31 Mar 2014

Public and private investors seeking to create socially and economically successful places have historically focussed on the economic aspect of that equation.  In keeping with our commitment to finding practical solutions for today’s challenges, the RSA is seeking to redress this imbalance: our current open innovation Premium is focussed on boosting investment in people, and we are now pleased to announce a conference this Wednesday in conjunction with British Land, focussing on the place aspect of this tripartite.

How do you feel when you see the police?

Blog

07 Mar 2014

Matthew Parsfield

When you see a police officer do you feel safer, or less safe?

State or society - where does power lie?

Blog

25 Feb 2014

Matthew Taylor

The think tank, ippr, has an unconditional place in my heart matched only by West Bromwich Albion and the RSA so I have been trying to work out why the Institute’s recent pamphlet ‘Many to many – how the relational state will transform public services’ didn’t grab me in the way its reports usually do.

By 2020, public services will be about managing demand, not supply

Blog

25 Feb 2014

Henry Kippin and Anna Randle

Politicians must stem rising tide of demand for public services

Press release

25 Feb 2014

As many local authorities face their biggest financial challenges over the next two years, a report examined the steps being taken to shrink demand on public services and prevent Councils being reduced to a state of ‘perpetual crisis management.’

Call for entrepreneurs to join ranks of Subpostmasters, says RSA

Press release

24 Feb 2014

The Post Office could transform its future by supporting branches to take a more entrepreneurial approach, including providing access to digital training courses and public services such as health centres, as well as servicing the needs of a growing community of microbusinesses, an RSA report has suggested.

Assisted Dying – Who Makes the Final Decision?

Video

20 Feb 2014

A panel discussing Assisted Dying.