RSA Events: Audio
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June O'Sullivan, CEO of the London Early Years Foundation, looks at how social franchising could offer a new way forward in tackling the challenges of child poverty.
Bryan Appleyard and Rod Liddle discuss how fast-moving technological forces are shaping our future and consider the shift from simple solutions to the “new complexity”.
Professor Robert Frank argues that in the next century Charles Darwin will unseat Adam Smith as the intellectual founder of economics.
Acclaimed ‘social and ethical prophet’ Jeremy Rifkin explores how internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful ‘Third Industrial Revolution’.
Our expert panel chaired by Charles Jencks will explore design in healing environments and the wide reaching effects of creativity and culture in enhancing wellbeing and shaping healthcare policy.
Author Mark Earls explores how ideas, behaviour and culture spread through the simple means of doing what others do.
As public services come under ever greater spending pressures, John Seddon, Halima Khan and David Boyle explore new ways of approaching efficiency.
Dr Ken Arnold he talks about contemporary interactions between the arts and sciences and how humanity's core concern with health, medicine and wellbeing can be explored within a cultural context.
Professor Lawrence Sherman presents the case for a new civil society that can unify the police profession across all ranks, such as a College of Policing.
Steven Pinker, one of the world's most exciting public thinkers, presents a radical re-assessment of human progress.
With the old assumptions about immigration dissolving fast David Blunkett, Robert Winder, Sarfraz Manzoor and Dr Titi Banjoko debate how modern mobility is changing our attitudes to integration, identity and belonging.
Anthony Giddens introduces a range of new concepts and proposals, and examines in depth the connections between climate change and energy security.
Acclaimed journalist and author Anatol Lieven joins a distinguished panel to discuss the relationship between Britain, Pakistan, and the British Pakistani diaspora.
Psychoanalyst Darian Leader argues that we need a new account of what madness is, and new ways of treating it.
Sociologists Jeffrey Alexander and Gordon Lynch explore the idea that modern society, from politics to the media, remains deeply influenced by a sense of “the sacred”.