• New Royal Designers for Industry 2013

    Seven of the UK’s best designers are to be recognised for their outstanding contribution to design and society by becoming Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) at an award ceremony held at the RSA on Thursday 28 November. Regarded as the highest honour a designer can receive in the UK, two Honorary RDI awards will also be given.

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  • RSA crowdfunding

    The RSA crowdfunding area on Kickstarter has now opened with Fellows’ projects looking for support to make a positive social impact. Help us spread the word and back your favourite.

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  • A better kind of banking

    This report, published by the RSA in partnership with the Fairbanking Foundation and the Barrow Cadbury Trust, explores what the financial sector could learn from small companies and initiatives using alternative business models.

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  • Latest RSA Journal out now

    Latest RSA Journal out now

    This issue of the RSA Journal looks at the economic significance of European metropolitan centres, compares Chinese and Indian urbanisation, and explores the political impact of sleep.

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  • Re-Imagining Work

    Latest RSA Animate on re-imagining work

    Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft, imagines what might be possible if more organisations embraced the full, empowering potential of technology and encouraged a truly open, collaborative and flexible working culture.

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  • RSA Fellows deliver capacity, commitment and innovation to communities from the global to the local.

    About the Fellowship

    A global network of individuals from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines who deliver capacity, commitment and innovation to communities globally to the locally. Our Catalyst fund supports Fellow-led ideas that aim to have a tangible and positive social impact.

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  • About the RSA

    About the RSA

    The RSA: meeting 21st century challenges by showcasing ideas, undertaking innovative research and building civic capacity around the world.

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Events coming up

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Dec

What's Next For Foreign Aid?

Leading international development consultant and researcher Ben Ramalingam and NESTA chief executive Geoff Mulgan discuss how insights from the cutting edge of science can help make foreign aid more appropriate, innovative, and catalytic.

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Dec

RSA/NSPCC event - How nurture alters nature

Professor Moshe Szyf’s trailblazing research in epigenetics highlights the impact that external factors and the social environment can have on gene expression. In this special RSA NSPCC event, he considers how we deploy the latest scientific thinking to some of today's toughest challenges.

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