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Pupil Design Awards 2022-23: final evaluation report

Report

28 Nov 2023

Aidan Daly

This evaluation illustrates how the Pupil Design Awards contributes to the pupils' creative self-efficacy, awareness of real-world issues and pupil and teachers' design capability, as well as the critical factors supporting teachers to complete projects and how we can make the awards more inclusive.
Sophie Hague: me and my education

Blog

17 Nov 2023

Sophie Hague

Sophie Hague, a 2022 Student Design Award winner, explains how design helped to identify the learning techniques that worked for her.
'Forgotten Heroes' - how pupil designers created a national remembrance campaign

Blog

09 Nov 2023

Deborah Davidson Simon De Courcey

Falinge Park High School in Rochdale, UK responded to the RSA’s ‘Local Community’ Design brief with a campaign exploring and celebrating the contributions of Black and Asian soldiers in World War II - creating a lasting legacy and learning outcomes for pupils across the North-West.
Engineering sector needs ‘education overhaul’ to ensure its long-term future

Press release

08 Nov 2023

Our new report warns that automation, AI, and the imperative of decarbonisation are leading to profound changes in the engineering sector
Preventing school exclusions in Tower Hamlets

Policy briefing

26 Oct 2023

Aidan Daly Hannah Breeze Mehak Tejani Nik Gunn

We partnered with Tower Hamlets to help reduce exclusions and improve practice in the borough as part of our Pinball Kids project. This policy briefing shares our findings and connects them to broader debates and trends in national policy and practice.
Capability building in the age of polycrisis

Blog

20 Oct 2023

Andy Thornton

Our Regenerative capabilities coalition is a key intervention of our Design for Life mission. Andy Thornton, our Head of Regenerative Design, says we need to invest in capabilities to support the transition to a regenerative economy.
Zubair Junjunia: Featured Fellow Q&A

Blog

27 Sep 2023

Zubair Junjunia

RSA Fellow Zubair Junjunia talks about the challenges of young entrepreneurship, educational equity and the role community plays in building purpose-driven, intersectional social enterprises.
The Student Design Awards' most ambitious year yet

Blog

25 Sep 2023

Anna Markland

Learn about our legacy of active inclusion and our commitment to making 2023-24 the boldest and most far-reaching Pupil and Student Design Awards cycles yet.
Do the right thing

Comment

13 Sep 2023

Mike Thatcher

Optimism and hope were the watchwords as the RSA hosted our annual Fellows Festival.
Century of innovation

Comment

04 Sep 2023

Anton Howes Anna Markland

The Student Design Awards celebrate 100 successful years supporting visionary products.