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Community Banking

Supporting the creation of local banks across the UK.
9 Jan 2025
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Fellowship news

The 2024 Angus Millar Lecture

On 2 December 2024, the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh hosted the annual Angus Millar Lecture for the second consecutive year.
23 Dec 2024 Fionna Monk
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report

Improving health through economic development

We have created an Economies for Healthier Lives programme coaching resource that pulls together our experience, insight and case studies from the five ‘hubs’.
13 Dec 2024 Anna Markland, Liv Chai, Nicholas Heslop
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Past RSA Journals

RSA Journal Issue 4 2024

RSA Journal issue 4 2024 discusses examples of ‘courageous communities’, from Lord John Bird’s experience of poverty and homelessness to Samantha Tauber’s attempt to build a better Earth from space.
12 Dec 2024
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Fellowship news

Strengthening Fellows’ global and local connections

From our online global community platform Circle to enhanced local co-working spaces and personalised communications, we’re doing all we can to facilitate engagement with the RSA.
9 Dec 2024 Line Kristensen, Fionna Monk
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Public talks

How to save our economy and democracy

ITV political editor Robert Peston looks at how our economics, society and politics went bust. And asks: can we abandon fatalism, and find new ways to rebuild prosperity, solidarity and purpose?
26 Oct 2023
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How to fix parliament

Drawing on his recent experience as Chair of the Parliamentary Standards Committee, Sir Chris Bryant MP explores what has gone wrong in parliamentary politics in the UK and how we can fix it.
25 Oct 2023
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Civil unrest? The civil service in an era of change

Our expert panel offer a striking insider view into the current state of civil service culture, structure and operations and ask how might we embed positive change in the Whitehall machine.
30 Oct 2023
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Public talks

Why learning to fail can teach us to thrive

Amy Edmondson, professor of leadership at Harvard Business School and the world’s leading expert in the science of psychological safety, offers a practical guide to ‘intelligent failure’.
26 Sep 2023
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