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Videos & Audio
Jonathan Haidt: Why A 21st Century Enlightenment Needs Walls
0Acclaimed social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores how we can create institutions and public spaces that foster viewpoint diversity and mutual understanding, and where people can civilly and constructively disagree.
Reweaving The Fabric Of Society
In his Albert Medal lecture, Citizens UK founder Neil Jameson presents a roadmap for radical change, charting a course to major systemic change in politics and public life.
The Making Of A Democratic Economy
Ted Howard, community wealth building visionary, shows how we might dramatically expand the vision and reality of democratic political economy.
Social Democracy Now
A panel gathers in honour of David Marquand to reflect on the state of social democracy today, and examine how progressive politics can invigorate our society.
Publications
In this collection of essays, we ask a number of thought leaders and practitioners to explore the potential of alternative housing models such as co-living to help meet the challenges of today, with a particular focus on ...
A Matter of Conviction: A Blueprint for Community-Based Rehabilitative prisons sets out a blueprint for reform for the prison system in England and Wales.
The interim report from the RSA Inclusive Growth Commission
In order to inform its analysis of place-based dimensions of inclusive growth, the Commission undertook three ‘deep dive’ research visits in Bradford, Cardiff city region and Newcastle.
Articles & Blogs
"In resisting extremism, intolerance and xenophobia, the arts are one of our most important sources of integrity, authenticity, and truth."
Millennials don’t support higher taxes. But they do support universal approaches to welfare. Anthony Painter explains how generational inequalities explain this paradox.
Jonathan Haidt speaks with Matthew Taylor on polarisation, identity politics and the importance of social science for our collective future.
To address inequalities we must recognise how they play out in different places, and not shy away from tough questions about local identities while empowering citizens to drive inclusive change.
Projects
Citizen Power Peterborough explored creative ways of encouraging local people to work together and help their communities become stronger, safer, greener and more able to overcome the challenges they faced.The programme compri ...
One of the Citizen Power Peterborough projects, Sustainable Citizenship aimed to encourage, test and support people’s ideas to make green behaviour easier in Peterborough and the city a more sustainable place to live.
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 ...
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 ...
Events
Renowned political philosopher Michael Sandel delivers an exclusive address on the birth of a better, wiser politics for the 21st century.
Join Becca Antink and Tom Harrison, researchers in the RSA’s Public Services and Communities team, for a discussion on the drivers of social isolation and how it plays out for different groups in different places, as part ...
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RSA Rawthmells: International Migrants Day 2018
Tuesday 18th December 2018 at 13:00
The Steps, Rawthmells, RSA House
In conversation with International Artist & Activist, Salma Zulfiqar to mark International Day of Migration 2018.
Journalist, writer and critic John Harris joins RSA Public Services & Communities Director Ed Cox to host an evening of story-telling by ordinary people living extraordinary lives.