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Social mobility

Ambition, success and deceit in the influencer economy

RSA Event / Video / Online

10 Mar 2022

In this innovative examination of the influencer economy and digital capitalism, journalist Symeon Brown explores the tantalising appeal and harsh realities of finding your fortune online.
Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson on How Social Status Affects our Self-Worth

Video

02 Jul 2018

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett follow up their seminal work The Spirit Level with new insights into how inequality impacts us as individuals.
Lynsey Hanley on The Experience of Class

Video

17 Aug 2016

Journalist and writer Lynsey Hanley explores why class is still so central to the experience of living in Britain today.
Helen Pearson on The Life Project

Video

15 Aug 2016

Science journalist Helen Pearson reveals insights from the five birth cohort studies begun in 1940s Britain, that form the basis of how we understand inequality and health today.
Robert Putnam on Inequality and Opportunity

Video

30 Oct 2015

Robert Putnam explores the cultural and economic factors that are contributing to the persistence of inequality, and asks: what can be done to address the widening ‘opportunity gap’.
David Graeber on a Fair Future Economy

Video

19 May 2015

David Graeber, anthropologist and leading figure in the Occupy movement, visits the RSA to consider what it would take to build a flourishing, sustainable and just future economy.
Danny Dorling on Inequality and the 1%

Video

25 Sep 2014

Leading social geographer Danny Dorling unpacks the latest research into how the lives and ideas of the 1 percent impact the remaining 99%.
The Truth About Social Mobility

Video

06 Mar 2014

Gregory Clark is professor of economics, University of California, Davis
Influencing Tomorrow

Video

20 Nov 2013

Douglas Alexander MP is UK Shadow Foreign Secretary.
Does the British Establishment still exist?

Video

24 Oct 2013

Peter Hennessy is one of the UK’s leading contemporary historians.