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How a fairer world could save the planet

Join the RSA for a thought-provoking evening with Tony Juniper and Mya-Rose Craig, exploring the powerful connections between social justice and environmental sustainability. Discover how fairness can drive global change.
08 Apr 2025
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Patron’s Lecture: why social capital matters

In the 2025 RSA Patron’s Lecture, world-renowned political scientist Robert Putnam explores the vital role of social connections for economic mobility, civic engagement, and community wellbeing.
24 Mar 2025
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Regenerative learning: making the shift

Can we bridge the divide from dominant educational models to a new approach, where personal, social and ecological wellbeing is at the very heart of how we teach and learn? With regenerative educators Satish Kumar, Rachel Musson and Ben Rawlence.
07 Mar 2023
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The transformative power of everyday wonder

Join Dacher Keltner, a world-leading expert in the science and history of the emotions, for an inspiring exploration into how we can all find more wonder and awe in our modern lives.
19 Jan 2023
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Slouching towards utopia

One of the world’s most celebrated economists, Brad DeLong, explains just how and why the long twentieth century’s explosion of technology and prosperity has failed to deliver us a real utopia.
13 Oct 2022
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Public talks

The story behind extraordinary success

From resilience, confidence and grit to the odds stacked firmly in your favour, what does it take to achieve extraordinary success today? Bruce Daisley explores the complex story behind success and sets out how we can all unlock our inner strength.
29 Sep 2022
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Social justice and health equity

Landmark inequality review author Sir Michael Marmot calls for evidence-based action to tackle the health gap across the whole of society and at each life stage.
13 Sep 2022
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Is social prescribing the future for healthcare?

Lord Andrew Mawson and Sir Sam Everington, recipients of the 2022 RSA Albert Medal, will talk about creating new contexts for health through social prescribing, the innovative approach now widely used in the NHS.
20 Sep 2022
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Tenants – living through a housing crisis

Examining history, politics and deeply personal stories, journalist Vicky Spratt traces the policy decisions that have created a housing emergency and offers a new route forward for supporting tenants in Britain.
19 May 2022
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