How does class background affect our prospects in the workplace and in life? Sociologist Sam Friedman shares his insights into the hidden barriers to equality in elite occupations.
Why It Pays to be Privileged
21st March 2019
Durham Street Auditorium, RSA House
How does class background affect our prospects in the workplace and in life? Sociologist Sam Friedman shares his insights into the hidden barriers to equality in elite occupations.
Public Events
One of the world’s most influential public thinkers Cass Sunstein explores the different ways that social change can happen, from nudges to movements to cascades.
How Stories Make Us Who We Are
Thursday 28th March 2019 at 13:00
Durham Street Auditorium, RSA House
How can storytelling help us navigate the world around us? Writer Will Storr explores the science behind humanity’s most powerful tool.
EVENT VIDEOS
This animation shines a light on those quirks of our psychology that make it hard to change our (and other people’s!) behaviour. Bestselling author Gretchen Rubin explains the four personality ‘tendencies’ and their respective strengths and weaknesses.
What does joy look like? Designer Ingrid Fetell Lee exposes the power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness, and shows us how to find joy in the world around us.
Introducing RSA Minimates – little sister of the RSA Animates you know and love! In our first ever RSA Minimate bestselling author and sleep scientist Matthew Walker argues that we are sleepwalking into the greatest public ...
RSA Animate
RSA Animate presents world-changing ideas from our free RSA public events programme in a unique and accessible way. With millions of views and thousands of comments, fans and subscribers, it has revolutionised the field of knowledge visualisation in spreading the most important ideas of our time.
RSA Shorts
RSA Shorts provide snapshots of big ideas, blending voices from our RSA public events programme with the talents of illustrators and animators from around the world. In our busy lives, Shorts provide a ‘mental espresso’ of new ideas and inspiration to awaken the curiosity in us all.
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Action & Research Events
RSA Canterbury: Confronting Social Isolation and Loneliness
Fellow Event
Tuesday 26th March 2019 at 19:00
Augustine House, Canterbury
What does social isolation and loneliness look like in your community? Join us for an evening of conversation on the impact of loneliness and social isolation locally, and to hear more about how our Public Services research ...
Fellow Events
RSA Salisbury Meetup
Fellow Event
Tuesday 26th March 2019 at 18:30
The Friends Meeting House, Salisbury
Come and join us at this first RSA Café event. The Café is intended to be an exchange of ideas modelled on The Socrates Cafés running worldwide and on the Democracy Café in Salisbury facilitated by Dickie Bellinger FRSA. ...
Building a Mission-led Bank for London
Fellow Event
Tuesday 26th March 2019 at 18:30
Benjamin Franklin Room, RSA House, 8 John Adam Street, WC2N 6EZ
Join us to find out more about Greater London Mutual (GLM); a radically different kind of bank that will be owned by its members and serve all Londoners regardless of their financial means. By recycling local savings to create ...
