Fellows Talks Session 1 Chidi Oti Obihara | Cop 28 Climate Action Plan Speaker: Chidi Oti Obihara, RSA Fellow, environmentalist, climate finance expert and co-founder, COP 28 Climate Action Plan Chair: Martin Wright, RSA Fellow, award-winning writer, editor and speaker on environmental solutions and sustainability futures; director, Positive News Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNB Follow RSA Events on Instagram: https://www.instagram.co...
Jul 28, 2023•50 min•Ep. 501
How to change the climate story Julia George talks to Rebecca Solnit, author, climate activist and co-editor, with Thelma Young Lutunatabua, of "Not Too Late: changing the climate story from despair to possibility". https://www.nottoolateclimate.com/ Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNB Follow RSA Events on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thersaorg/ Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theRSAorg Like RSA Events on Facebook:...
Jul 26, 2023•25 min•Ep. 500
How to regenerate the economy Andy Haldane in conversation with Shevaun Haviland, director-general, British Chambers of Commerce; Sebastian Payne FRSA, director, Onward; and Jo Swinson FRSA, director, Partners for a New Economy. Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNB Follow RSA Events on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thersaorg/ Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theRSAorg Like RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook....
Jul 25, 2023•38 min•Ep. 499
Unlocking the potential of the creative sector with Rt Hon Lucy Frazer MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNB Follow RSA Events on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thersaorg/ Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theRSAorg Like RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theRSAorg/ Listen to RSA Events podcasts: https://bit.ly/35EyQYU Join our Fellowship: https://www.the...
Jul 24, 2023•39 min•Ep. 498
Nature Game Changers With Sir Partha Dasgupta, author of The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review. Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNB Follow RSA Events on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thersaorg/ Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theRSAorg Like RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theRSAorg/ Listen to RSA Events podcasts: https://bit.ly/35EyQYU Join our Fellowship: https://www.thersa.org/fellows...
Jul 21, 2023•30 min•Ep. 497
Nature Game Changers With Tanya Steele, Chief Executive, WWF-UK and Charlie Beattie, People's Assembly for Nature. Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNB Follow RSA Events on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thersaorg/ Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theRSAorg Like RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theRSAorg/ Listen to RSA Events podcasts: https://bit.ly/35EyQYU Join our Fellowship: https://www.thersa.org/f...
Jul 20, 2023•23 min•Ep. 496
Nature Game Changers With Henry Dimbleby, food systems reformer and author, Ravenous. Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNB Follow RSA Events on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thersaorg/ Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theRSAorg Like RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theRSAorg/ Listen to RSA Events podcasts: https://bit.ly/35EyQYU Join our Fellowship: https://www.thersa.org/fellowship/join...
Jul 19, 2023•32 min•Ep. 495
Behind the scenes of BBC Wild Isles With series producer, film-maker Hilary Jeffkins. Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNB Follow RSA Events on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thersaorg/ Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theRSAorg Like RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theRSAorg/ Listen to RSA Events podcasts: https://bit.ly/35EyQYU Join our Fellowship: https://www.thersa.org/fellowship/join...
Jul 18, 2023•29 min•Ep. 494
How to release the potential of the creative industries. With Katy Shaw FRSA, director, AHRC Creative Communities; Darren Henley FRSA, chief executive, Arts Council England; and Shanaz Gulzar, creative director, Bradford 2025, UK City of Culture. Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNB Follow RSA Events on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thersaorg/ Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theRSAorg Like RSA Events on Facebook: htt...
Jul 14, 2023•50 min•Ep. 493
To mark the launch of a new RSA report Make it authentic , we talk to educators about their experience of doing youth social action with their pupils. What challenges and opportunities do they face? And how can systems leaders ensure that youth social action is a core part of learning at a difficult time for schools? Make it authentic concludes the work the RSA has been carrying out on youth social action in partnership with the Pears #iwill Fund. You can read the report in full here . The Pears...
Jul 13, 2023•57 min•Ep. 492
The 2023 SDA keynote address will be delivered by UNEP Champion of the Earth and design disruptor, Dr Leyla Acaroglu . In her SDA keynote address, Dr Acaroglu will look at design ethics, systems change, circularity and designing a positive future that works better for all of us. As designers, she says, we have immense influence on society — we help to design the future through the things we do and don’t create every day. This offers infinite potential and equally infinite impacts that we must co...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 491
Join the London Sustainable Development Commission for the launch of a new LSDC report on what the capital’s political leaders must do to deliver a ‘just transition’ for London. Download the report in full here . The event will ask: How do we continue to build public trust in climate action through engagement? How can communities have a greater say in local climate action affecting them – especially marginalised voices? How can the benefits of the green economy be shared fairly and made more acc...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 490
Richard Layard and Jan Emmanuel De Neve present a case for making wellbeing the central goal – for government, for business and for educators. Drawing from their field-defining publication on the science of wellbeing across the life course, they call for a shift in policymaking to maximise the wellbeing of individuals and to engage citizens to contribute to more resilient, rebalanced and regenerative futures. #RSAWellbeing Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: h...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 489
In one of his final speeches as CEO of Unilever, Alan Jope will share how his experiences have helped shape his views on how business will transform over the next decade. Alan will share insights and lessons learned leading a company with a €60bn turnover, covering 190 markets, with products that are used by 3.4billion people every day and with a vision to be the global leader in sustainable business. #RSAbusiness Become an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueemb Donate to The RSA: https://ut...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 488
The world stands at a cross-roads, in urgent need of a compelling vision that can renew faith in democratic and liberal ideals, and galvanize collection action towards a better future for all. For economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler, the ideas we need right now are to be found in the work of one of the giants of 20th-century philosophy, John Rawls. In Rawls, he argues, we have an unparalleled, as yet untapped intellectual resource, and the basis for a genuinely transformative progressive p...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 487
“Education is the root of all the more specific crises such as climate change, governance breakdowns, impending war and social unrest.” - Zachary Stein, writer, educator, futurist The 2022 Times Education Commission set out to examine the entire UK education system and consider its future in the light of the Covid-19 crisis, declining social mobility, new technology and a shifting skills landscape. Andy Haldane is joined by Commission Chair Rachel Sylvester; Lord Blunkett and Lord Baker to discu...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 486
In his 2023 RSA President’s Lecture, Sir Peter Bazalgette will outline the current context of the creative industries and discuss opportunities to unleash the energy and potential of the sector to drive transformational change across society and the economy. Sir Peter is joined by five creative entrepreneurs, innovators across the sub-sectors of screen, CreaTech, games and fashion, whose projects exemplify industry dynamism, value and impact. These initiatives are part of a revolution in creativ...
Apr 20, 2023•56 min•Ep. 485
In her final public event as Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon reflects on an extraordinary career in public life. At the RSA, she’ll share thoughts on what shaped and sustained her during her premiership, as leader of an ambitious small nation taking a progressive agenda to the world stage, during a period of complex national and global challenges. From Covid to climate emergency, the First Minister will speak frankly about her record, her legacy, and what gives her hope for the future. ...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 484
Rana Foroohar , associate editor at the FT and one of the world's leading economic commentators, argues that path to prosperity, sustainability and equity lies in a local, place-based economics fit for the 21st century. The journalist Joseph Stiglitz has acclaimed for being 'consistently right about globalisation', argues that with the pandemic exposing the vulnerability of global trade and supply chains; tensions building between the China and the west; and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we are ...
Mar 16, 2023•35 min•Ep. 483
The dominant global educational system was designed to meet the needs of the Industrial Age - an age of mass production and consumption which has brought us to today's multifaceted ecological, economic and social tipping points. There is now growing awareness that we need to learn a new way of living and working in harmony with each other, as well as the natural world - and that needs to start at the earliest stages of education, and continue across the life-course. Fortunately, we don't need to...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 482
A good team needs a considerate leader that can encourage cooperation and create a resilient environment where people can operate at their best. A good team should be built on strong social bonds that hold tight even when their only point of contact is a phone or a computer. But how does this work and how can psychology help us better understand how human groups function? Join leading experts from the worlds of evolutionary psychology and business management, Tracey Camilleri , Samantha Rockey a...
Mar 09, 2023•47 min•Ep. 481
Nails, springs, wheels, magnets and string - these individual wonders have built our modern world. Each component has a long history and is the result of many iterations and refinements. Together, they have enabled humanity to see the invisible, build the spectacular and communicate across vast distances. Join award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal as she deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions that have changed our lives - and our societ...
Mar 02, 2023•43 min•Ep. 480
At the RSA, in partnership with the Ukrainian Institute London , Oleksandra Matviichuk will reflect on her work as head of the Center for Civil Liberties, an organisation that has promoted the protection of human rights and has worked tirelessly to document war crimes and human rights violations perpetrated in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Join us to explore how new alliances for the defence of human rights and the restoration of justice can serve as the basis of peace in Ukraine and the world. ...
Mar 01, 2023•55 min•Ep. 479
Government decisions determine the welfare of the poor and elderly, the state of our health service, the shape of the education system and much more. This spending power is funded by layers of taxes that touch all corners of our income, savings, and spending habits. Look closely at taxation and you’ll find winners, losers and a system that is sorely in need of reform. Join Paul Johnson , Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, for this systemic examination of how the government collects an...
Feb 27, 2023•46 min•Ep. 478
Bringing Professor Mariana Mazzucato , a world-leading economist heralded as one of the ‘25 leaders shaping the future of capitalism’ (WIRED), together with Mia Mottley , Prime Minister of Barbados and one of TIME’s 100 most influential world leaders, this event offers a unique opportunity to hear two global trailblazers discuss what it means for governments to lead a just green transition. They will discuss the need for state leadership to align economic growth and climate goals, the importance...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 477
Across society, politics and culture, the North has a distinct sense of regional identity. With roots in its time as Britain’s nineteenth-century industrial heartlands, Northern identity was once defined by a sense of innovation and future-focused thinking. However, the deindustrialisation and austerity of the past few decades have clouded that sense of achievement and led the North to become one of the most impoverished regions in the UK. Join Alex Niven , leading voice on Northern identity and...
Feb 17, 2023•44 min•Ep. 476
2023 sees the 20th anniversary of the repeal of Section 28, the UK legislation that banned the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality, stopping schools from discussing same-sex relationships and depriving generations of young people from an inclusive education. To celebrate this anniversary and LGBT+ history month’s 2023 theme of ‘Behind the lens’, the RSA welcomes a panel to discuss what can be learned from successful movements for inclusive education in the UK in the past twenty years, exploring what ha...
Feb 09, 2023•52 min•Ep. 475
As a former Chief Selector of the England cricket team, Ed Smith has developed a unique framework for identifying and maximising talent, spotting team weaknesses, and communicating ideas that lead to stronger leadership, clearer judgements and, ultimately, improved performance. At the RSA, he joins chief executive Andy Haldane to share insights from the very top flights of professional sport, arts and business, and to argue that putting the human back into decision-making is essential to navigat...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 474
How should we reimagine and redesign our economic models to better reflect and serve human needs and wants, and the flourishing of all life on our one planet? It is often said that the world faces challenges that are complex and systemic. But in fact, the world is a complex, interconnected “system of systems”. These complexities and interconnectivities amplify the global challenges facing us, whether economic, social or environmental. They also mean that a deep understanding of the behaviour of ...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 473
From 2009 to 2014, Baroness Catherine Ashton was the EU’s first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. She faced the challenge of representing the views and values of 28 nations during one of the most turbulent periods in living memory. From Russia’s invasion of Crimea to the Iran nuclear negotiations, she faced the challenge of solving immediate problems while constantly asking ‘and then what’ and keeping long-term solution building at the heart of these conversations. Her...
Jan 26, 2023•50 min•Ep. 472
