Reports

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Friends with benefits: how diverse social connections drive economic mobility

3 Dec 2025

In partnership with Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), Neighbourly Labs, Stripe Partners, Opportunity Insights and Meta, our research explores how the friendships we form across social and economic divides influence life chances, earnings and wellbeing.

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Digital Badging Commission

13 Oct 2025

In partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust, the RSA convened the Digital Badging Commission in 2024 to examine how digital credentials can transform skills recognition in the UK. Read the Commission’s final report.

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East Midlands Inclusive Growth Commission final report

15 Sep 2025 Liv Chai, Nick Heslop, Mark Lloyd, William Miles, Rosario Montiel, Tom Stratton, Oliver Burrows, Lesley Giles, Alejandro Mina-Calvo, Adele Marshall

These recommendations are grounded in the practical and tangible, shaping them around the East Midlands’ unique strengths, challenges, and opportunities today and in the future.

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The East Midlands Inclusive Growth Commission: interim report

17 Mar 2025

This interim report from The East Midlands Inclusive Growth Commission calls for a step change in investment in the region

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Rethinking Public Dialogue: Learning from experimental pilots

13 Mar 2025

By rethinking public dialogue we can add value in policymaking and service design by improving policymakers’ understanding of people’s lived experiences.

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Improving health through economic development

13 Dec 2024 Anna Markland, Liv Chai, Nicholas Heslop

We have created an Economies for Healthier Lives programme coaching resource that pulls together our experience, insight and case studies from the five ‘hubs’.

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Unleashing the potential of the UK’s cities: Core City profiles

28 Oct 2024

This Core City profiles report extends the RSA’s UK Urban Futures Commission report, Unleashing the potential of the UK’s cities, released in September 2023.

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Creative Corridors: connecting clusters to unleash potential

24 Oct 2024 Jolyon Miles-Wilson, Hayley Sims, Tom Stratton, Bernard Hay, Emily Hopkins

This RSA report offers creative corridors as a mechanism for harnessing this growth. Our ambition is that creative corridors will stimulate economic growth by increasing linkages.

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Preventing School Exclusions: Lessons from the Front Line

11 Oct 2024

Preventing School Exclusions: Lessons from the Front Line presents our process and learnings about the active ingredients needed to facilitate deeper collaborative approaches to halting this social injustice.

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An external evaluation of Preventing School Exclusions

11 Oct 2024

The RSA’s Preventing School Exclusions project aimed to set up and facilitate multi-agency ‘Collaboratives’ to design new ways of matching services to children and contribute to reducing preventable school exclusions. This is an evaluation of that work.