Past events
Catch up on all our past events. Watch videos and read more about the challenges.
Flooding: National problem, local solutions? 11 March 2017
Life off the ladder, 15 June 2016
Integrated Britain? 15 March 2016
Energy for all, 24 February 2016
Ready for impact? 10 November 2015
London: too big to succeed? 15 September 2015
Blog: Just Too Big, Jon Reeds, Smart Growth UK, 16 September 2015
Made in Britain?, 25 March 2015
Equalising Education, 20 November 2014
Air quality for all, 30 October 2014
Press coverage: Are we still choking on the fumes of 20th century industrial policy? Hamish Stewart, 10 Nov 2014
Story: The Story of the Wonderbag, genconnect
Escape to the city, 26 June 2014
Blog: Urbanisation and Wellbeing: Can We Make Cities Happier Places to Live? Network of wellbeing, 14 July 2014
Mobile middle class, 13 March 2014
Big data, big impact?, 21 November 2013
Feeding the 9 billion, 30 October 2013
Blog: Feeding the 9 billion, Graham Eyre, 31 October 2013
Blog: Feeding 9 billion people, an evening of discussion at the Royal Geographical Society, Peter Smithers, School of Biological Sciences, Plymouth University, 6 February 2014
Blog: Entomophagy: feeding the 9 Billion, British Ecological Society, 8 November 2013
Blog: 21st Century Challenge – Feeding the 9 Billion, Bohunt Geography, 24 March 2014
Blog: The Pig Brother diary room, Edd Colbert, The Pig Idea, 2013
Countryside in Crisis?, 26 June, 2013
The Energy Water Food Stress Nexus, 5 December 2012
Article: Can Shell’s ‘stress nexus’ change the conversation about natural resources?, Green Biz
Unsustainable Fishing, 10 October 2012
Keeping pace with a digital revolution, 15 May 2012
Global health in the 21st Century, 21 March 2012
Adapting to an urban future, 13 December 2011
Educating for tomorrow, online only
Digital technology in Africa, 10 May 2011
Blog: Digital Technology in Africa – 21st Century Challenges at the Royal Geographical Society, Leon Tong, BrightLemon, 20 May 2011
Blog: The role of Digital Technologies in Africa, Amy O’Donnell, FrontlineSMS, 26 May 2011
Persistent poverty in Britain, 15 March 2011
Can the UK ever be sustainable? 1 December 2010
Press coverage: Sir Stuart Rose speaks at the Royal Geographical Society, Guardian, 15 December 2010
Blog: 21st Century Challenges, Peter McManners, Sustainability and Resilience, 6 December 2010
Plastic pollution in the oceans, 13 October 2010
Sculpt the future foundation
Natural disasters: how to improve? 25 May 2010
Not In My Back Yard, 3 March 2010
Digital Divide in the UK? 1 December 2009
Blog: Pivot Support: What is Digital Exclusion?
Importing goods, exporting drought? 14 October 2009
Britain’s ageing population, 16 June 2009
Press coverage: Beware of growing oldies, The Times, 20 June 2009
Engineering our climate, 14 May 2009
The future shape of Capitalism, 17 March 2009
Migration: skills and the job market, 11 November 2008
Razing the Rainforest, 22 October 2008
London under water, 18 June 2008
Concreting the countryside, 13 May 2008
Future of low carbon energy, 26 March, 2008
Africa in the 21st Century, 10 October 2007