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Press release

‘Maverick Mindsets’ are needed to transform public services, says new report

7 Sep 2022

RSA press release – The RSA and NHS Lothian have published ‘A Rough Guide to being a public entrepreneur in practice: Learning from NHS Lothian’.

Blog

The importance of public entrepreneurship

7 Sep 2022 Ian Burbidge

Our healthcare system needs transformational change that creates the space for a new paradigm to emerge. Read about how our public entrepreneurship project can support this.

report

A rough guide to being a public entrepreneur in practice

7 Sep 2022 Ian Burbidge, Jamie Cooke, Ella Firebrace, Benny Souto, Beatrice Bekar, Adanna Shallowe

This rough guide presents the insights of 12 NHS Lothian staff who challenged the status quo to find new ways of innovating their work.

Blog

Framing decolonisation through the lens of design

25 Aug 2022 Jillian Linton

What does it mean to decolonise – and how does that look for the design community at large? Jillian Linton explores this and other questions in her event wrap-up blog.

Blog

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?

report

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.

Blog

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.

Press release

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.

Blog

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.

Press release

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.