Latest Thinking

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Making sense of chaos – shaping economics for a better world

17 Jun 2024

Influential scientist and entrepreneur J. Doyne Farmer shows how a more complex understanding of the economy can help us develop ideas for a fairer and more regenerative world.

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Building bridges: London Climate Action Week

26 Jun 2024

Join us at RSA House, and online, for a special event during London Climate Action Week 2024 with musician, UN Youth Leader and Sustainable Development Goal champion AY Young, to explore how we can bridge divides that prevent progress towards sustainability and regeneration.

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Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling

06 Jun 2024

What is holding LGBTQ+ people back at work – and what can be done? Layla McCay takes a compelling look at the challenges facing LGBTQ+ professionals and offers advice from senior figures who have smashed through the rainbow ceiling.

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Will Gen Z reject or remake capitalism?

02 May 2024

We are approaching the biggest wealth transfer in history. Investor Ken Costa and entrepreneurs Timi Merriman-Johnson and Rachel Drapper assess the impact on our economy and society as power and influence shifts from ‘Boomers’ to ‘Zennials’.

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Stories from a hotter world

28 May 2024

Award-winning authors John Vaillant and Gaia Vince examine the devastating effects of fossil-fuelled climate warming, and to ask: what does ever more flammable world mean for the future of life on Earth?

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Growth: a reckoning

13 May 2024

Bestselling economist Daniel Susskind looks afresh at the past, present and future of economic growth – what really drives it and how we might better direct it to what we truly value.

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From the era of anxiety to the age of aspiration

08 May 2024

In his 2024 RSA Chief Executive’s Lecture, Andy Haldane asks: how do we break out of the doom loop, and set ourselves braver and bolder social change ambitions?

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How a changing climate changes our minds, brains and bodies

23 Apr 2024

Award-winning neuroscientist Clayton Aldern exposes a looming public health crisis: the warming climate is affecting the human mind and body as well as the planet.

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Building a better society for healthier, longer lives

15 Apr 2024

Economist Andrew J. Scott asks: what needs to change – across work, health, skills and relationships – to make the most of our longer lives?

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RSA Albert Medal Address

14 Mar 2024

Christiana Figueres receives the RSA Albert Medal in recognition of her creativity, courage and commitment to accelerating the global response to climate change.