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The digital revolution has already reconfigured almost every aspect of our lives, but with new innovations appearing on the horizon every day, the landscape is still set to change beyond all recognition. Alasdair Blackwell...

Robert Kegan's theory of adult meaning-making has influenced theory and practice internationally across multiple disciplines. In a special RSA event, he considers: is it really possible to grow beyond the psychological ind...

Full webcast from the RSA event on Monday 8 July 6pm BST. An edited HD video of the event will be available in the near future.

At the event, one of the world's leading psychologists, Professor Carol Dweck visited the RSA...

Finding one's passion and true purpose in life is essential to human flourishing.

In this new RSA Shorts video, Sir Ken Robinson argues that education, organisations and communities need to be built on a model of diversi...

Full webcast from the RSA event on Thursday 4 July at 1pm BST. An edited video of the event will be available in HD in the near future.

Dr Brené Brown has spent the past twelve years carrying out ground-breaking research...

Due to a technical glitch, there was a slight delay to the YouTube streaming, which is why the video starts a little late into the talk.

This is the webcast from the RSA event on Tuesday 1 July 2013, 630pm BST. An edite...

This was the full webcast from the RSA Event on Monday, 1 July 2013. An edited video of the event will be available in HD in the near future.

At the event, world-renowned educationalist Sir Ken Robinson delivers the lo...

In this new RSA Insights video, Matthew Taylor explores how new technologies are enabling us to create, collaborate and share as never before.

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This is the full webcast from the RSA event on Thursday 27 JUne at 1pm BST. An edited video of the event will be available in the near future.

With many of us facing an ever greater pace of change in our personal and wor...

The global response to climate change is failing. John Ashton CBE, one of the world's leading climate diplomats, speaks candidly on what is going wrong and what is to be done.

Chair: Andy Atkins, executive director, Frie...

Nobel Laureate Jody Williams shares her insights into building action from the grass-roots, showing how people can come together to make change happen and contribute to a better world.

Chair: Stephen Sackur, journalist, b...

Full webcast from the RSA event on Tuesday 18 June 630pm BST. An edited video of this event will be available in HD in the near future.

A distinguished panel shared key insights and new ideas emerging from the Global Edu...

Full webcast from the RSA event on Monday 17 June at 930am BST. An edited video of the event will be available in HD in the near future.

Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg MP delivered a keynote speech on schools ...

Full webcast from the RSA event on Thursday 13 June 6pm BST. An edited video of the event will be available in HD in the near future.

At the event campaigner and writer Jesse Norman MP explored the relevance of Burke's i...

Stats guru and political forecaster Nate Silver reveals why most predictions fail, and shows how we can isolate a true "signal" from a universe of increasingly big and noisy data.

Speaker: Nate Silver, statistician and p...

This is the full webcast of the RSA event on Thursday 6 June at 7pm BST. An edited video of the event will be available in HD in the near future.

At the event, era-defining author and commentator Martin Amis discusses t...

This is the full webcast video from the RSA event on Thursday 6 June at 1pm BST. . An edited video of the event will be available in high definition in the near future.

At the event, George Monbiot explored a new positive...

Full webcast from the RSA on Wednesday 5 June 2013 630pm BST. An edited video of this event will be available in HD in the near future.

Chad Dickerson, CEO of Etsy, visited the RSA to share his experiences of building an...

Join Professor Bruce Hood as he shows that the concept of the 'self' is a figment of the brain, generated as a character to weave our internal processes and experiences together into a coherent narrative.

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Dr Linda Yueh, one of the world's leading economic experts and director of the China Growth Centre at Oxford, visits the RSA to discuss China's extraordinary economic transformation.

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Full webcast from the RSA Event on Tuesday 4 June at 1pm BST. An edited video of the event will be available in HD in the near future.

At the event, author and business adviser Josh Kaufman revealed a new approach for a...

This is an unedited version of the talk that Michael Pollan did at the RSA yesterday. Unfortunately, due to technical problems the very beginning of the live stream was missed but the usual edited video of our event will ...

Mental health is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Vikram Patel, director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, calls for a model of community-based intervention that empowers ordinary individuals to plug the r...

An influential panel will debate the role designers must take in driving a sustainable manufacturing model.

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Geoff Mulgan argues that the economic crisis presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically different future for capitalism, one that maximises its creative power and minimises its destructive force.

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Acclaimed award-winning author and author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reflects on the role of literature in conversation with Ellah Allfrey, deputy editor of Granta Magazine.

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Tim Smit, CEO of The Eden Project, joins an expert panel to ask whether initiatives such as The Big Lunch can provide the social capital boost Britain needs? Is the death of community overstated or do we all have the abili...

Influential economist and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy Hernando de Soto explores the economic roots of the Arab Spring.

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Baroness Grey-Thompson and Jonathan Edwards CBE join a panel to discuss the legacy of London 2012 for the UK's young people.

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Leading sociologist Manuel Castells examines new social movements, new forms of change and political democracy in the global network society.

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Dr Finbarr Livesey, POLIS, University of Cambridge, Julie Madigan, chief executive, The Manufacturing Institute and the Rt Hon Vince Cable MP discuss the findings of a new RSA/Lloyds Banking Group report on the future faci...

Tech sociologist Evgeny Morozov examines the risks and limitations of the "solutionism" of the smart future, where the temptation to enrol technology companies rather than governments in solving all of the world's greatest...

Major changes to the way the NHS is managed and funded are about to take effect. LBC's James O'Brien chairs a live radio debate from the RSA Great Room, asking: will the changes really make the NHS more efficient? And what...

In the inaugural RSA Tindale Lecture, Alice Rawsthorn, leading design critic and author of the forthcoming book "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life", explores the powerful and pervasive influence of design in our lives -...

Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft, imagines what might be possible if organisations really began to think differently about the power of technological and social change to transform the way we do business...

Sir David Cannadine, one of Britain's most distinguished historians visits the RSA to provide a new paradigm for historical understanding that emphasises our commonalities, rather than our differences.

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Distinguished human rights lawyer, barrister and academic, Professor Conor Gearty argues that a new vision of universal freedom is urgently required.

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John Gray, one of Britain's most provocative and stimulating philosophers, visits the RSA to discuss the ideas raised in 'The Silence of Animals' - the much-anticipated sequel to the best-selling 'Straw Dogs'.

Chair: Jona...

Sustainability expert Paul McMahon considers price spikes, market manipulation, land grabs and the race to control food supplies, and asks - can we feed a world of nine billion... and at what cost?

Chair: Dr David McNair,...

Pioneering medical scientist Dr Kevin Fong shows how our exploration of the physical world has run in parallel with advances in our understanding of the human body's capacities and limits. But can human exploration go much...

Sir Peter Bazalgette delivers his inaugural lecture as Chair of Arts Council England, launching a new partnership with the RSA, aimed at exploring ideas for a new political economy for arts and culture in England.

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Economist and author Stewart Lansley argues that the surging income gap of recent decades has not only been socially corrosive, but is also at the roots of our national and global economic crises.

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