The number of people working for themselves has reached a record high. Yet there is still much that we do not know about them. Our aim is to plug this gap in thinking and explore the reasons why greater numbers are turning ...
Projects
The RSA Student Design Awards (SDA) challenges emerging designers to tackle pressing social, environmental and economic issues through design thinking.
The emerging view of human nature is radically different from the past, but have we used what we have learned about our brains, behaviour and biases in recent years? The Social Brain Centre focuses on three principle aspects ...
The London Borough of Hounslow is investigating new avenues of achieving better outcomes for its residents beyond the traditional delivery of services. As a precursor to a potential pilot study that will seek to strengthen ...
The Mental Wellbeing and Social Inclusion programme is a longitudinal project that seeks to i) understand how community and social connections affect people’s well-being; ii) develop best practice around using local data ...
This project is Nesta-funded research in parallel to the Hounslow-Cranford Stronger Together project, and to compare approaches.
Social Mirror is a tablet application that you can use to measure, visualise, and see the potential for change in on line and offline networks. Starting in January 2012, we developed a prototype for use by social science ...
How do we adopt an asset based approach for people in recovery? The RSA explores how recovery capital works in practice.
A network of 100 people of African origin with a desire to create change in their communities was selected by the RSA and began meeting in April 2014. Over a 12 month programme, the participants are receiving specialist ...
The RSA’s Royal Designers seek 24 young designers and 12 wildcards to join 12 Royal Designers at this year’s Summer School.